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Over the Garden Wall

2014

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Stephen Vincent Benét, writing about his iconic short story “The Devil & Daniel Webster”, once wrote

It’s always seemed to me that legends and yarns and folktales are as much a part of the real history of a country as proclamations and provisos and constitutional amendments. The legends and the yarns get down to the roots of the people -- they tell a goo…

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