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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: ‘True Ghost Stories’ — on reality, life and death
Description: Two creative men from Altamont have gathered ghost stories from village residents and surrounding areas into a book. Neither is a stranger to imagination and yet they have labeled these stories as true.Tom Capuano, a retired professor, once wrote a book-length narrative poem on the founding of Altamont, grounded in history but with imaginative creation of characters. He raises sheep now in an 18th-Century barn on land that both figure prominently in some of the ghost stories.Thom Breitenbach, an artist who lives in a castle he built on the hillside above the village...