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Rumble Strip

Leland is Almost Done Seventh Grade

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It's been a year since we've heard from my neighbor, Leland. Here's what's on his mind.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Erica Heilman and this is Rumble Strip.

0:05.0

It's spring in Vermont and it's been a full year since we heard from my friend Leeland.

0:11.0

When we left him last year, he was just about to graduate from Callis Elementary

0:15.1

School and move up to the big Union Medal School. Leeland is my neighbor, and this will

0:20.8

be my third year talking with him on tape about what he's doing, what he's thinking about.

0:25.6

He talks about revolutionary war reenactments and friend groups and grief.

0:30.9

Leland takes me around and shows me all the places I forgot about in the 30-something years, since I was 13.

0:38.4

This year we decided to meet down in the valley between our two houses.

0:42.2

We crouched in a stand of dead reeds by

0:44.2

Peek and Brooke which runs all through our town and Leland gave me some highlights

0:48.6

from his year. Here's Leland.

0:52.0

To get here I walked down my hill and then walked along a kind of short dirt road over a bridge and across Peak and Brook, which is a

1:10.0

breath that flows really curvy and like everywhere around town.

1:17.0

At this point, at this part it's just kind of a small stream but at other parts there's four feet of water and it's

1:25.1

really good for swimming good for fishing good for really anything water

1:31.0

related and right now we're at water related.

1:37.0

And right now we're at another bridge at Pekinbrook,

1:41.0

right by the old Armstrong House. And some new people, I didn't even know some new people moved in there.

1:45.0

Yeah, because the old farmer had a heart attack.

1:48.0

He was kind of pretty old.

1:52.0

Do you know what happened?

1:53.0

Uh, I know that he was on his tractor in this field right here and he had a heart attack last winter. I feel like you might have been plowing or something. I don't

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