Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.

This show is sponsored by East Hill Tree Farm, the world's finest place to find your fruit and nut bushes and trees. It is really time to do your

planting. You can learn more about them at Easthilltree Farm.com in Plainfield Vermont. A note before we start, this show is a follow-up to a show I made called

Finn and the Bell. You don't have to listen to it before this one, but I would recommend it.

Okay, on to the show.

I mean, when I first came to these woods,

I thought this is how after people die, this is what should happen. Their friends should make a

scrappy memorial. It's so beautiful here and you know, the boys use these memorials as forts.

They play like Hobbit back out in here.

That's Tara Reese. We were sitting in my car at the edge of the pine forest up at

Bread and Puppet in Glover. In this pine forest there are little homemade buildings and shrines to memorialize dead puppeteers and friends.

It's a place where Tara's sons, Finn and Lyle, spent a lot of time when they were little,

running around in the woods in the summer, in that time of life when you're a kid and when days feel like forever.

Now there is a memorial here for Finn in the Pine Forest, built by some of the kids he used to play

here with out of old boards from Tara's barn. Finn died by suicide on January 3rd,

20. He was 17. In 2021, Tara and I made a story about him called Finn and the Bell.

People all over the world listened, and we received hundreds of emails and texts and artwork

and poetry. Tara received letters that were addressed to Finn's mom, Hardwick, no address.

But this is a story just about Tara and about the evolution of grief, about what happens after the worst thing happens.

We recorded this on Mother's Day at Finn's Memorial in the Pine Forest.

Welcome. He turned eight here. It was the first time he had

ever come here was his eighth birthday. And somebody said, it's that kid's

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