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The Black Moth
I have to laugh when I hear the code words the Tea Party braintrust bandies about. “Loud Tribesman” was Newt Gingrich’s latest euphemism for t...
Sister of the Road
Nobody knows if there was such a person as “Boxcar Bertha.” Dr. Ben Reitman wrote her “as told to” memoir in 1937 and the feeling is that she w...
The Red Road
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I elected not to go to the art fairs in New York this week. I actually haven’t been going to them for a while now and I don’t miss them. ...
The Town Without Mercy
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In Timothy Egan’s, The Worst Hard Time, the dustbowl tragedy of the 30’s is chronicled in painstaking and heartbreaking detail. The ‘Okies...