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Velma Gillespie goes to school

In a photo from around 1906, Minnie Sitton Gillespie stands behind her children, from left, Albert, Lola and Velma, at Pink Beds Forestry School, now the Cradle of Forestry in America in Pisgah National Forest. [COURTESY OF JERE BRITTAIN]

By Velma Gillespie Brittain, Published: December 5, 2022

The Lightning is running the memoir of Velma Gillespie Brittain during the slower news cycle of these holiday weeks.

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