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Tracy Staley

Tracy Staley

Tracy Staley (she/her) lives in Dayton, Ohio, by way of Hazard, Ky. She is a marketing specialist for Great Stories LLC, a digital marketing and advertising company in Kentucky. At the Rural Assembly, Staley works on social media, content, email newsletters, and publicity. Staley has two decades of communications work for newspapers, magazines, companies and nonprofits. When she is not working, Staley enjoys reading, writing, and live music.

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Bearing flowers and tradition, the next generation takes on the duty of Decoration Day
By: - May 27, 2024

This story was first published in The Daily Yonder on May 21, 2021 and is is republished here under a Creative Commons license. While their friends are cannonballing into the city pool this weekend, my sons will spend the day in an Eastern Kentucky cemetery, placing flowers on the graves of relatives they never knew. […]

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Bearing flowers and tradition, the next generation takes on the duty of Decoration Day
By: - May 29, 2023

This story was first published in The Daily Yonder on May 21, 2021 and is is republished here under a Creative Commons license. While their friends are cannonballing into the city pool this weekend, my sons will spend the day in an Eastern Kentucky cemetery, placing flowers on the graves of relatives they never knew. […]