This Special Dispatch is a meditation upon imagined pasts and their relationship to folklore. In some respects, all pasts are imagined, even the ones we help to create. As individuals, our pasts are constructed by the events we experience, the ways we chronicle those events (journals, letters, photos, etc.), and the objects that stand as reminders of them (heirlooms, memorabilia, etc.) For example, we might go for a walk on a spring day, journal about the leafing trees, and press a flower between the pages of a book. Years later, the memory, journal, and flower might remind us of the walk. But memories can be faulty, journals only capture the highlights of an event, and the pressed flower is only one of many delights we saw that day. To fill in the blanks, we might imagine sunlight or bird song even if we can't exactly remember them.