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Beyond the Brink and Fighting Back with Memories of How it Used to Be
We all remember the place where we grew up, but as writer Thomas Wolfe taught us, you can't go home again. Albany journalist Rosemary Armao remembers an old West Albany village of Italian immigrants that no longer exists, so her podcast interview this week with friend Greg Hamilton is evocative of feelings we all have. Hamilton grew up in tiny Webbs Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. An isolated fishing and farming region 60 years ago, it is now utterly changed by some of the same forces at work changing all of America: environmental change, economic decline, racial turmoil and changes…
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