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The story of the snake and the bears

2/8/2014

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I was working on a story about looking for my father's art, an obsession of mine since February 2008, when an essay about my mother's last summer inserted itself into the manuscript. Eventually, I rewrote the essay as a piece that could stand alone. Today it was published in a new literary pub called "The Leopard Seal." [Note, the new literary pub is now a defunct one. I've posted the story here.]
'The story of the snake and the bears' is the name of the piece; here are some of the photos I took that summer.... With grateful thanks to the kind men from the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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This cute little guy broke into Mom's cabin. That night a very large bear tore the door off the house. I had to call the wildlife police....
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...who came to the house, inspected the situation and brought a bear trap. On the left, biologist John Rohm; right, senior officer Mark DiLuigi, both from the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries. Center: a bear trap.
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Mark DiLuigi and John Rohm calibrating the peaches-and-lever end of the bear trap. Your bear, it lumbers into the back of the trap, grabs a bag of peaches and BAM! down comes the door.
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The inside of the door bears witness to beasties' clawings and scrabblings.
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The baby bear managed to trip the trap, but escaped only bruised and aggrieved. No other harm came to any bears at the cabin that summer.
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