Both his parents and a sister died in the camps, but Wiesel was among the prisoners freed by Allied forces in April 1945 - and with his rescue came a moral burden, as he described years later in a CBS interview: “In the beginning the question was, ‘Why did I survive? Why?’ Every...
and burns brightly, though nowadays there is never any one to read or work by its gentle glow. A flourishing fire sings on the hearth; but their joint cheerfulness serves only to throw up into higher relief the inky gloom of the figure they illuminate...
When we got to her apartment, we set out to work and for once, she let me. I grated the taro –“not too fine, not to coarse, not too long, not too short” – she said by way of instruction. Clearly, she was a practiced hand. I used an ancient, still razor-sharp grater I ...
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PLAY EXCERPT: Ralph Stanley sings “O Death” The following year he and Jim Lauderdale would win a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for “Lost in the Lonesome Pines.”“I call him the king of mountain soul,” Lauderdale said. “He had that magical quality about him, that when you heard ...