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Nonfiction account of his trip across the country with his dog. Iran were reading it when i was 15. It would probably i remember reading it when i was 15. I remember being kind of disappointed that on his great trek he did come through pittsburgh. The place closest he came was eerie erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men. Grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high s...

Disappointed that on his great trek he didnt come through pittsburgh. The closest he came was erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men, grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was...

A great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat cabin on top, set into the bed of the pickup truck. We will show it in a minute. He took off on september 23 and headed north the message uses and visited his kid at school near deerfield. Then he made his way up to the top of maine. For some strange reason he th...

In the 1800s a Black man from Alabama named John Benson escaped the thumb of slavery, traveled across state lines to save his sister, then became a wealthy man who founded a Black community on the same land where he was once a slave.

A Black man from Alabama escaped the thumb of slavery to become a wealthy man who founded a Black community on Lake Martin.

The novelist copied Mary Hallock Foote’s memoirs and letters for “Angle of Repose”—an act that mars his legacy.

>> brian: all eyes are now on arizona. the state is home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. as soon as arizona governor jan brewer signed the countrys toughest law on illegal immigration yesterday, the protest and threats of lawsuits broke out. casey stegall is live in phoenix with more on the fall-out from the new state law. hello, casey. >> reporter: hello, brian. this is no doubt the toughest immigration reform bill on the books now in the country. its hard telling how long...