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Christmas on the rural route in the Smoky Hill valley
Tod Witherspoon recalls the 1917 Christmas on his rural mail route. He tells of Grandma Gabel and her foster boy P like, a backward nephew Tobe, and the mail box ritual that made that season feel like home amid war and hardship.
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Bath
Tee Jennings
Ted
Abram Star
Elbert McCullen
Yesteryear
Tod
Vermont Hills
Tod Witherspoon
Star City Gazette
Smoky River Valley
Saint Peter
Arkin
Uncle Sam
Smoky Hill Valley
Narrer
Tully Gabel
France
Grandma Gabels
Gabel
Star House
Canon
Smoky
Fairyland
Kansas
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Kentucky
P’like
Tobe
Gabels
Tully
Grandma Gabel
Blue Grass
Upper
Smoky Hills