Educated
Created @October 24, 2021 9:00 AM
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Prologue
The railway car abandoned next to the barn is red
Tara is 7
Her family doesn't go to school
The government can't force them to go to school because 4 of her
parents'' 7 children don't have birth certificates nor medical records
because they were born at home and have never seen a doctor nor a
nurse. They also have no school records cause they've never gone to it
When Tara turns 9 years old she will be issued a Delayed Certificate of
Birth
They live in Idaho
Tara had grown up preparing for The Day of Abomination
The mountain that her father told her about is called Buck's Peak. There
are more imposing mountains than this but this one is the most finely
crafted
Buck's Peak looked like a woman striding forward→ Her father called it
" The Indian Princess". She emerged each year when the snow began
Educated 1
, to melt facing south
Dad said that the nomadic indians had watched her as a sign of spring,
a signal that the mountain was thawing, winter was over and it was time
to come home
Part 1
Choose the Good
Tara's memory is not a memory rather something she imagined then
came to remember as if it really happened→ the memory formed
when she was 5 from a father her father told in such great detail
that her and her siblings each conjured up their own cinematic
version of hit with gunfire and shouts, but Tara's had crickets. In
short the feds surround her house and shoot her mother who has a
baby in her hands (which doesn't make sense because Tara is the
youngest of her mother's 7 childeren. None of this happened
A year after her father told that story they were gathered to hear him
read aloud from the Isaiah, a prophecy about Immanuel→ out of a
Bible. Father and mother sat on the mustard colored sofa while the
kids sat on the shaggy brown carpet
The morning after reading the bible dad purged the fridge of milk,
yogurt and cottage cheese and instead came back with his truck
filled with 50 gallons of honey
Grandma had Indian jewelry all turquoise and silver
Bc grandma lived down the hill from them near the highway they
called her 'Grandma-down-the-hill"→ grandma on dad's side
Grandma-over-in-town→ grandma on mom's side. She got that
name bc she lived 15 miles south in the only town in the country. It
had a single stop light and grocery store
Their house is yellow
The big dairy farm a mile north of Bucks Peak is owned by Jim
Grandparents always go to Arizona when winter approaches
Educated 2
, Grandma has black dyed hair
Grandma told Tara to be ready by 5am and she'll take her to Arizona
with her. Dad wouldn't notice she's gone till long after and on top of
that he can't leave while the days are long and the weather holds
enough for him and his boys to finish building barns
Dad always worked from sunup till sundown in the weeks leading up
to the first snow, trying to stockpile enough money for (by) hauling
scraps and building barns to outlast the winter, when jobs are
scarce
Tara needed to feed the animals before they left
Richard→ brother of Tara;s
Audrey→ Sister of Tara's
The end of canning season= Summer
Luke→ brother of Tara's→ 12 years
The Weavers= A family of freedom fighters that got trapped by
the Feds in their own home
They made "head for the hills" bags packed with MRE's- Meals
Ready to Eat
Dad ordered a bunch of guns that came in narrow tin boxes and
were packed in Cosmoline
Tyler→ a brother of Tara's
Tyler chose a rifle and set in in a black sheet then wrapped it up un
duct tape. After he went down to the railroad, dug a hole next to the
red railroad car and buried it
Dad bought a machine to manufacture bullets from spent
cartridges. It was in the basement
Tara decided not to go with her grandparents to Arizona
Kamikaze→ Luke's goat
The midwife
The midwife needed a calendula (a solution), lobelia and witch hazel
Educated 3
Created @October 24, 2021 9:00 AM
ar
Prologue
The railway car abandoned next to the barn is red
Tara is 7
Her family doesn't go to school
The government can't force them to go to school because 4 of her
parents'' 7 children don't have birth certificates nor medical records
because they were born at home and have never seen a doctor nor a
nurse. They also have no school records cause they've never gone to it
When Tara turns 9 years old she will be issued a Delayed Certificate of
Birth
They live in Idaho
Tara had grown up preparing for The Day of Abomination
The mountain that her father told her about is called Buck's Peak. There
are more imposing mountains than this but this one is the most finely
crafted
Buck's Peak looked like a woman striding forward→ Her father called it
" The Indian Princess". She emerged each year when the snow began
Educated 1
, to melt facing south
Dad said that the nomadic indians had watched her as a sign of spring,
a signal that the mountain was thawing, winter was over and it was time
to come home
Part 1
Choose the Good
Tara's memory is not a memory rather something she imagined then
came to remember as if it really happened→ the memory formed
when she was 5 from a father her father told in such great detail
that her and her siblings each conjured up their own cinematic
version of hit with gunfire and shouts, but Tara's had crickets. In
short the feds surround her house and shoot her mother who has a
baby in her hands (which doesn't make sense because Tara is the
youngest of her mother's 7 childeren. None of this happened
A year after her father told that story they were gathered to hear him
read aloud from the Isaiah, a prophecy about Immanuel→ out of a
Bible. Father and mother sat on the mustard colored sofa while the
kids sat on the shaggy brown carpet
The morning after reading the bible dad purged the fridge of milk,
yogurt and cottage cheese and instead came back with his truck
filled with 50 gallons of honey
Grandma had Indian jewelry all turquoise and silver
Bc grandma lived down the hill from them near the highway they
called her 'Grandma-down-the-hill"→ grandma on dad's side
Grandma-over-in-town→ grandma on mom's side. She got that
name bc she lived 15 miles south in the only town in the country. It
had a single stop light and grocery store
Their house is yellow
The big dairy farm a mile north of Bucks Peak is owned by Jim
Grandparents always go to Arizona when winter approaches
Educated 2
, Grandma has black dyed hair
Grandma told Tara to be ready by 5am and she'll take her to Arizona
with her. Dad wouldn't notice she's gone till long after and on top of
that he can't leave while the days are long and the weather holds
enough for him and his boys to finish building barns
Dad always worked from sunup till sundown in the weeks leading up
to the first snow, trying to stockpile enough money for (by) hauling
scraps and building barns to outlast the winter, when jobs are
scarce
Tara needed to feed the animals before they left
Richard→ brother of Tara;s
Audrey→ Sister of Tara's
The end of canning season= Summer
Luke→ brother of Tara's→ 12 years
The Weavers= A family of freedom fighters that got trapped by
the Feds in their own home
They made "head for the hills" bags packed with MRE's- Meals
Ready to Eat
Dad ordered a bunch of guns that came in narrow tin boxes and
were packed in Cosmoline
Tyler→ a brother of Tara's
Tyler chose a rifle and set in in a black sheet then wrapped it up un
duct tape. After he went down to the railroad, dug a hole next to the
red railroad car and buried it
Dad bought a machine to manufacture bullets from spent
cartridges. It was in the basement
Tara decided not to go with her grandparents to Arizona
Kamikaze→ Luke's goat
The midwife
The midwife needed a calendula (a solution), lobelia and witch hazel
Educated 3
