Ellen LaConte | The Sun Magazine

Ellen LaConte

Ellen Laconte lives and writes in Stockbridge, Maine, where she is an editor at Loose Leaf Press.

— From August 1998
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Like A Leaf In Autumn

A Reconsideration Of The Good Death Of Scott Nearing

Although from the very beginning I noticed occasional inconsistencies in Helen’s account of Scott’s death, I assumed they were simply the internal equivalent of the way different witnesses remember different versions of an accident. Only, in Helen’s case, the versions differed over time, rather than from witness to witness.

August 1998
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