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[Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Story of a Homesteading Couple in Oklahoma

Laura Nelson's family came to oklahoma on a wagon train from pennsylvania. She says the state is "a microcosm of all the conflicts and contradictions of our country" Nelson was inspired by postcards showing lynchings, fire turpentine drops in her youth. The town she grew up going to embodied 'the sort of birth of the state'

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