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Heather Shayne Blakeslee

Heather Shayne Blakeslee is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Root Quarterly, named a best new magazine of 2019 by Library Journal. She's also a writer, artist, nonprofit executive, and an award-winning singer-songwriter known as Sweetbriar Rose.

Letters from a Pennsylvanian

By Heather Shayne Blakeslee

Ruminations and explorations of Pennsylvania history, culture, arts, and what the future may hold for my state.

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