The wind phone in Conestee Nature Preserve helps the grieving dial into healing
I wouldn’t have to look up the number. It was the first one I ever memorized, with the old 704 area code, in the house in North Carolina where I grew up. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say on the wind phone in Greenville’s Conestee Nature Preserve, but a lot had happened since my mom died a few years ago, and there was plenty I was never able to tell her even before then.
The wind phone, an antique-looking black rotary telephone enclosed in a wooden box just off the trail in the park’s Rock Garden area, isn’t connected to any wires. Wires won’t reach the ones you really want to talk to, says Adriana Brooks…