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A beach in San Felipe, Baja
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This Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington. NPR is running a series this week that began late last week. This morning an episode set the scene of the days before and morning of the march, and includes the accounts of people who were there, how they road buses from all over to be there. You can hear stories in streaming audio a the site and see photos. 
I have heard Dr. King's speech so many times over the years that I don't know if I really remember hearing it for the first time. All I know is that everytime I hear that speech I am so incredibly moved. I do remember very clearly seeing pictures of the civil rights movement in life magazine- pictures of people being attacked by dogs, sprayed with hoses. I'm pretty sure I saw it on TV at the time, but it was Life magazine that really informed by world view in the early and mid-60's with pictures from Vietnam, of the Black Panthers, the Kennedy and King assassinations, Woodstock, the Free Speech Movement (before it was an iconic period in time that was capitalized), even People's Park.
Get yourself over to NPR and listen in. Radio is a wonderful thing, and The March on Washington is an extremely important moment in American history.
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Karin lists all the places she slept in Europe. She has a new laptop and is off to Hah-vuhd.
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Frederick Hammersley
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