Traces of buildings and objects from the Middle Ages were uncovered, though the oak barrels and a large stump next to a historic road caught the locals’ attention.
—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 2026
There will be other unique opportunities, like joining in Bluey's school class photo and getting to visit Bluey's helicopter stump and a life-sized Gnome Village and Fairy Garden.
But some of that refuse, the ghost recalls, found a second life in the hands of a woman named Cara.
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Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
In the mid-1970s, the long net of the Florida Keys swept up a generation of countercultural refuse in a web of free love, plentiful drugs, and cheap booze.
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