A Blessing and a Curse Author:Carole Jefferson Sadie Speers has volunteered to step in as the director of Silver Peak's annual Silver Festival, which celebrates and honors the are's mining history and heritage. The position is rumored to be cursed, however, because bad things have befallen virtually every director, including the woman Sadie replaced. The most famous evidence for the purpor... more »ted curse involves the twenty-year-old mystery surrounding the a director who disappeared after the close of his festival. So when a set of valuable silver vanishes under mysterious circumstances from the American Mining Museum, Sadie can't help wonderinf: Is the curse real after all?« less