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Dennis McFarland

Dennis McFarland is the author of several novels, most recently, Nostalgia. His short stories have appeared in such publications as the Scholar, The New Yorker, and Best American Short Stories.

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Bucksaw 

Two boys pay a visit to their father

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, June 03, 2019
Darkspur

Darkspur

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, March 06, 2017
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The Preacher’s Wife

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, September 01, 2006
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Start Off Dead

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, January 06, 2014
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Stateside

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, March 01, 2013
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Handsome Boy 

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, December 06, 2013
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What Does Columbus Day Really Mean?

by William J. Connell

Whether you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Discoverers’ Day, or Native Americans’ Day, historian William J. Connell observes that, in the end, this controversial civic holiday is just that: a holiday. In his essay “What Columbus Day Really Means,” Connell writes that President Benjamin Harrison created the holiday in 1892 to honor both Native Americans and the many immigrants who were only then arriving in the country. “It was to be a national holiday that was not about the Founding Fathers or the Civil War, but about the rest of American history,” Connell writes—a day for celebrating the country and all its people. Sounds to us like a pretty good reason to take the day off of work.