BROADCASTS.com

This is a follow-up show to Finn and the Bell. If you haven't heard that story, you might want to start there.\n\nAt Bread and Puppet in Glover, Vermont, there is a magical pine forest full of small homemade buildings and shrines to memorialize dead puppeteers and friends. It\u2019s a place where my friend Tara Reese\u2019s sons Finn and Lyle spent a lot of time when they were little, running around in the woods in the summer. Now there is a memorial here for Finn in the pine forest, built by some of the kids he used to play with here. Finn died by suicide on January 3rd, 2020. In 2021, Tara and I made a story about him called Finn and the Bell. People all over the world listened, and we received hundreds of emails and texts and artwork and poetry. Tara received letters that were addressed to \u2018Finn\u2019s Mom, Hardwick\u2019, with no address. \n\nBut this is a story just about Tara, and about her evolution of grief. About what happens after the worst thing happens. \n\nWe recorded this conversation on Mother\u2019s Day, at Finn\u2019s memorial in the pine forest. \n\nThis show ends with a song. The Bell was written by Jim Terry of Napa, California. He plays music with his sons, Graham and Clark and they\u2019re called The Terry Family Band. Jim wrote this song after listening to Finn and the Bell. Thank you so much Jim!