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It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in southeastern Virginia and has led me now to Wolftown in Madison County. All of it is about displacement. And the Lillards will tell me about the most personal kind of dispossession of all.
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It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in southeastern Virginia and has led me now to Wolftown in Madison County. All of it is about displacement. And the Lillards will tell me about the most personal kind of dispossession of all.
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It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in southeastern Virginia and has led me now to Wolftown in Madison County. All of it is about displacement. And the Lillards will tell me about the most personal kind of dispossession of all.
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Wolf: The Dispossessed, Part 10
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Dispossession has tracked me like a shadow for the better part of two months. It hounds at my heels. And tales of displacement fill my thoughts.
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in southeastern Virginia and has led me now to Wolftown in Madison County. Into a living room of a 19th century house surrounded by rich pasturelands ringed by mountains. It is the home of the Lillards and on the mantle piece an old clock ticks away the seconds. A clock as old as the house itself. A clock that Randall Lillard winds every Sunday evening as his father and grandfather had done before him.
The Lillards had told me how they were once dispossessed of their home during a freak summer rainstorm that filled their valley like a bathtub. A mud...
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