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Recently Posted American Stories
Vaudeville’s Back
An ancient truck carries a couple who dream of another time. Denise and Benny Reel gathered together a small group of vaudevillians. They were not kids with more ambition than ability. They were professional performers who set aside New York City careers to live in the country. And soon, people paid to see them; to sit in a frozen town hall, heated by a single stove.
A New Standard of Caring
We returned to San Francisco a year later to see how the survivors of a terrible earthquake were doing. Betty Kelly still cannot cross a bridge without flinching. She and her husband were on vacation in 1989, high over San Francisco Bay, just as the Earthquake struck. A section of the Bay Bridge dropped like a deadly trapped door. The Kelly’s honked their horn to warn others. But Anna Annalonghu died. Everything Adeen Murphy owned was 4 flights up a twisted staircase. Adeen had lived through a thousand air raids in World War Two London, so she crossed police barrier and found something she had bought only a week before — $2-thousand dollars worth of Wedgewood China.
Family Front Lines
Dear Mom. I’m writing this letter from the family front lines. You always said, “Just wait, someday you’ll be one.” Well, now I am. A parent. And ma, it’s rough out here. Family restaurants are different these days. They’ve got electronic games. Singing gorillas. And dancing rats. Last Saturday, I stood in line so long to get food, I could have eaten the last member of an endangered species. Parents survive on what their kids don’t eat. They wouldn’t care much for your carrot salad. A food critic from Dallas joined us for dinner the other night. He reviews the kind of food most of us eat. Fast food. “You know the difference between swill and slop?'” George Toomer asked me. ”No.” “Three days.”
“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.”
KEN BURNS
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- SAVANNAH GUTHRIE
“Throughout his remarkable career Bob Dotson has searched for the real essence of America – not by interviewing the so-called famous but by seeking out those unnoticed people we pass by every day. Dotson is a national treasure for caring enough to listen.”
- MEREDITH VIERA
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