April 11, 2020
Tales Well Told
From the archives of The Friday Read

Protecting yourself and others means staying put for now. But that doesn't mean your mind can't wander. To that end, we offer these four journeys of varying lengths. We hope you'll buckle up and enjoy the ride. We think all four are worth the trip. We'll return to our regular programming Monday.


** mysterIES and missionS
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** A woman’s quest to discover what happened to her Japanese grandfather after World War II (2019) ([link removed])
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By DENISE WATSON, The Virginian Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a mnth)

Regina Boone pulled the papers out of the fireproof bag. For more than 20 years, she protected the thick package through her moves from teaching in Japan, to her years as a graduate student in Ohio, then as a photojournalist in Richmond, Norfolk, and now, on this December night in 2016, in Detroit. She'd skimmed the pages before but she was finally ready to make good on her promise.


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War Orphan's Only Clue to Past: Precious Pearl (2014) ([link removed])
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By ANH DO, Los Angeles Times

Standing in the battlefield, the young South Vietnamese soldier was getting ready to blow up a bridge before Viet Cong forces could cross when an old man staggered his way, carrying a bundle.The stranger handed him a conical straw hat. There was a baby inside.The man said he had found the little girl clutching a dead woman, still trying to nurse.


** the old man and the sea
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** Why He Kayaked Across the Atlantic at 70 (for the third time) (2018) ([link removed])

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By ELIZABETH WEIL, The New York Times Magazine (Metered Paywall - 1 to 2 articles a month)

When Aleksander Doba kayaked into the port in Le Conquet, France, on Sept. 3, 2017, he had just completed his third — and by far most dangerous — solo trans-Atlantic kayak trip. He was a few days shy of his 71st birthday. He was unaccustomed to wearing pants. He’d been at sea 110 days, alone, having last touched land that May at New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay. The trip could have easily ended five days earlier, when Doba was just a few hundred feet off the British coast. But he had promised himself, when he left New Jersey, that he would kayak not just to Europe but to the Continent proper. So he stayed on the water nearly another week, in the one-meter-wide boat where he’d endured towering waves, in the coffin-like cabin where he spent almost four months not sleeping more than three hours at a stretch, where he severely tried his loved ones’ patience in order to be lonely, naked and afraid. Then he paddled to the French shore.


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The legend of DieselDucy: Vinton man's elevator videos go viral on YouTube ([link removed]) (2013) ([link removed])
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By RALPH BERRIER, The Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)

Andrew Reams was in the basement of an old building on Campbell Avenue in downtown Roanoke, where he was making another masterpiece. He held a digital video camera in his right hand and a toy train in his left. He took a quick shot of the train first. That's the way he starts all of his videos about elevators.
Yes, elevators.


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