In this episode of Lamplight Stories, host Tracey Campbell takes you inside Whitaker’s General Store in Maple Hollow, Kentucky, where a single black candlestick telephone carried the voices of an entire community. Farmers ordered seed before the rains, mothers called the doctor when fevers rose, sweethearts whispered across county lines, and families shared both joy and sorrow through its crackling wire.

Through Depression years, wartime calls, and everyday conversations, this simple phone became more than a machine — it stitched lives together, one voice at a time. Join Tracey as she reflects on how the smallest objects — a stove, a store, or even a telephone — once bound neighbors and families with threads of connection and hope.