It's the last Sunday in October at a family cabin resort on a northern lake. The docks came out of the water on Thursday. The rental canoes are stacked upside down behind the boathouse, and the water lines to the far cabins get shut off next week. Ruth, who...
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It is 4:50 on the Friday of graduation weekend. A father stands outside the campus bookstore with a phone in one hand and a bag of sweatshirts in the other. The hotel he booked by the airport is forty minutes away, and his daughter has just told him the fam...
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On the second Saturday in October, a family of five drives fifty minutes to a family-run apple orchard. They found it the night before on a phone. The listing showed a hayride photo, a five-star review about the cider doughnuts, and hours that said the orch...
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On the second Saturday in July, a family-run canoe and kayak outfitter on a spring-fed river does everything a small tourism business hopes for. Every boat is out by ten. The phone keeps ringing. The parking lot is full of cars from three states.
It is als...
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The front desk phone at a small regional art museum rings on a Tuesday morning. The caller has three oil paintings that belonged to her late father and wants to know what the gallery would pay for them. The visitor services coordinator explains, kindly, tha...
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