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A Personal Story Journal

Clara Hart's Backroad Stories

A collection of stories, memories, projects, lessons, and moments worth keeping from a life along the backroads.

Along this road

Stories stay here instead of disappearing into a feed. Start anywhere and follow the road at your own pace.

A rural Ohio farmhouse at dusk with a porch light glowing beside a winding gravel drive.

The Light We Carried Home

Chapter One: The House on County Road K I live just off County Road 6 now, in a little house most people pass without noticing. County Road K is just around the corner. If you asked me where, I would probably tell you “outside Blakeslee” and leave it at that....