Illustrated and read aloud at: https://youtu.be/JLeJQszhGAE
Synopsis: Both the 1882 and the 1936 floods affect a simple woman’s life.
1882 Pillow Emotions
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The Ben Ficklin flood and the 1936 flood affect a person’s life.
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I was inspired to write this story after having a dream about pillow fights. I had also read article at this site: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dog-named-lazarus-survives-euthanasia-attempt-article-1.1964074
From those stimuli, I wrote 1882 + Pillow Emotions.
The Concho Country Book (by Gus Clemons)
http://pac.tgclibrary.com:8000/?config=default#section=resource&resourceid=1069664¤tIndex=0&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab
helped me with research of the floods.
Miles Grove was situated where Santa Fe Golf course currently is. No doubt scavenging people picked the bounty of pecans and some sold them to make ends meet.