The Copper Bell of Calloway Creek
The brass disc sat in Thomas Calloway's trunk for three generations before anyone struck it. Thomas had brought it from England in 1847, a passenger steamer packing it among his personal effects alongside Bibles, family letters, and a iron key whose lock he could not find. He died in 1853, three months after arriving in the Mississippi delta, from a fever that took his wife first and him a week...
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