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sedan 5 mars 2022
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Let's hear from you! Most of us know of the grand engineering project that was the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. "I came, I saw, and I was conquered," said President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the dam's dedication in 1935. The dam dwarfed any construction project previously undertaken in th…

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Let's hear from you! “Multiracial people are the fastest-growing population in the United States, yet they remain almost invisible in our institutions, narratives, and data, noted public health practitioner Karabi Acharya.  Until recently, Americans were categorized as Black or White, sometimes Asi…
Let's hear from you! When the Night Comes Knocking follows two siblings, Jane and Thomas, as they travel from college through the North Georgia mountains to meet their family for Thanksgiving. Their halting conversation in the car reveals a serious problem between them, but the discord is soon over…
Let's hear from you! Two Bottles of Water is Janet Flaugher's account of living in China for two years. When Flaugher accepted the position as superintendent of an international school in the Chinese capital, she didn't realize what it was like to live in a city of 20 million people where…
Let's hear from you! A professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Roger Gottlieb qualifies as a counselor for those dealing with environmental anxiety. His new book, Nature Spirituality and Environmental Crisis: Embracing a Sacred, Wounded Earth, serves as a guide in troubled times. "We are…
Let's hear from you! Your typical cowboy movie features stagecoaches, lots of horses, Indians, and a saloon with swinging doors. The women depicted are either saloon girls or school teachers, noted Chris Enss, who’s worked hard for the past 30 years to dispel that image.  Enss has written numerous …
Let's hear from you! Joan Maloof doesn’t think hugging a tree is silly. As the founder of the Old-Growth Forest Network, an organization that seeks to preserve the few old-growth forests we have left in this country, Maloof is passionate about trees. Today, less than 5 percent of Western and only a…
Let's hear from you! You remember the department store, that big, multi-level center of the downtown that offered everything from an afternoon tea to wedding attire? That's where Jack Benny went every year to find a tie for Don Wilson or something for Mary Livingston, but always ran into troub…
Let's hear from you! Janet Zandy makes a case for art, both its appreciation and its execution, not just for the select few. In her book, Working-Class Girls Don’t Become Artists (University of Illinois Press), Zandy shares the exploits of nine artists whose work aligns with the histories and livin…
Let's hear from you! Not all the lessons learned at college take place in the classroom. That’s one of the takeaways from Woodlands of the Mind: Rambles Through Campus Forests by Kevin O’Donnell and Scott Honeycutt. There’s more. You learn that stately old buildings aren’t the only prominent landma…
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