Our Clarke
One letter for each year, written from the sources of that year. They are entrances rather than summaries: the names in them lead to the fuller record, and what is missing is named as missing.
A first at the fire company, thirty people with brush cutters in a cemetery, eighty-five thousand anonymous dollars for the schools, and a hundred meals put together in a few days.
2025, read back through the twelve issues of the county's own monthly paper.
A letter covers one calendar year and says so. Where a later development explains something in it, the letter prints the update rather than quietly rewriting what the year looked like at the time.