'When Women Were Birds' - A Conversation With Writer Terry Tempest Williams

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Western writer Terry Tempest Williams was given a gift by her mother as she was dying: her journals - three shelves of them. When she sat down to read them, she found that they were all blank. Terry Tempest Williams spent 25 years sorting out the message her mother meant to give her.

To hear the audio for this interview, visit The Story's website. Also in this show: Photographer Charlotte Dumas likes to photograph working animals, and spent time at night in the stables of Arlington National Cemetery.