Episode 4: The Sacrifice: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Four
Old Gods of Appalachia
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The Men and Women of Barlow Did as Their Pastor Bids
The men and women of barlow did as their pastor bid them. Cletus had insisted the burial must be to when a couple of the men's wives protested, they wanted to sit vigil with their husbands. But he pointed out that, after all, no one wanted coyotes or bears to come sniffing around, interfering with the bodies. They all deserved better than that. And so the family set their misgivings aside and laid their dead to a by the light of several lanterns,. with all the respect, tears, prayers and hymns you could ask for. It was near dawn three days later when annie messer called on pastor garden. Annie hadn't
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