(05/13/09) Our guest is Richard Rubin, author of Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South A brilliant page-turner about contemporary Mississippi, and about a journalist whose own conscience is tested by the historic forces still at work there. Rubin is a visiting professor at St. Lawrence University and part of the SLU Writers Series. This broadcast, live from the Old Forge Library, is underwritten by the Town of Webb Fund administered by The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.
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