NELLIE'S HILL begins in the forested hills of the New York State Interior in 1919. Fast forward: Nellie glances at a photo from her rocking chair in Florida in 1998 and states, "This was the old textile mill my mother worked at after arriving from England. You could always tell what color wool they were working on by the color of water in the Oriskany Creek." During the abyss of Nellie Elizabeth's final years, forty-four letters were written "into...
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