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    Lost Trail Road

    Sep 25, 2019 3 minutes
    By Jan Jakeman, MUNFORDVILLE, KENTUCKY

    The truck bumped and jolted as we drove up the steep gravel road through a dense green forest. We climbed higher and higher toward the top of a hill. I knew where we were. Lost Trail Road. An out-of-the-way, unpaved route not far from my house. I was in the passenger seat, and my seven-year-old son, Bobby, was in the back. My nephew Barry was driving. I gazed out my window into the trees. Something caught my eye. A bright green object. I looked harder. Was that…a ?

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