Benjamin Hale is t
he author of the novel \;The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore&nb
sp\;and the short-fiction collection \;The Fat Artist. \;
His writing has appeared in \;Harper&rsquo\;s\, the \;Paris Review\, the \;New York Times\, the \;Was
hington Post\, and \;Conjunctions\, and has been antholo
gized in \;The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He t
eaches at Bard College and lives in New York&rsquo\;s Hudson Valley. \
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The true-crime story \;recounted in \;Cave
Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning \;begins in 2001 on Ca
ve Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks. Six-year-old Haley&mdash\;the author&r
squo\;s cousin&mdash\;gets lost on a mountain trail\, prompting what was a
t the time the largest search and rescue mission in the state&rsquo\;s his
tory. Her disappearance&mdash\;and her account\, after she was found\, of
the &ldquo\;imaginary friend&rdquo\; she met in the woods&mdash\;eventuall
y becomes connected to another story that took place in the same wildernes
s more than twenty years earlier: a dark and bizarre story of a cult\, bra
inwashing\, murder\, and the apocalyptic visions of a teenage prophet.
Sponsored by the John David Coulter Memorial Fun d
\nASL interpretation will be provided for al l Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Robinson Theater. ASL interpretati on for sessions at other CALS locations and Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by request. To request ASL interpretat ion\, please submit an ASL Interpretation Request form.
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