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Come Listen To My Story

You can’t outrun who you are

Electrification. David Stone Martin, Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1940, Tempera on cardboard. Source: National Archives and Records Administration.

A friend and I were recently waxing poetic about the after-school television offerings of our youth. This would be the mid-late 1970s. You know, back when your television was the size of a Pop-Tart and had a hand crank. Like Depression Era folks waiting for the REA to put a creosote electrical pole in their front yard, we…