I'd been invited to go on a hayride in the small town of Porterville. Where the ride ended has stayed with me for decades.

My father said that part of his encyclopedia of folk music was burned in a fire, and that he'd have to start all over. Was it true?

Stolen songs and strange behavior, Riley Shepard fits right in.

Riley Shepard sold shares in his "Encyclopedia of Folk Music" to multiple investors.

In 1977, I met my half-sister for the first time. She was seventeen, I was twelve.

In 1976, someone gave me an old Brownie camera. I'd just turned eleven, and obsessed with staging and costumes for my photographs....

© copyright 2019-2022 Stacya Silverman. All rights reserved. Like a child soldier, I was loyal to Riley beyond all reason. He was, in my...

Another half-brother.

© copyright 2019-2022 Stacya Silverman. All rights reserved. Schlong: n. Vulgar Slang A penis. [Yiddish shlang, snake, penis, from Middle...

"The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there." --– L.P. Hartley from his novel "The Go-Between." Above is a map of...