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Books: "Green Fields"

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Crime, punishment and boyhood memories are explored in the third book by a Canton writer. Bob Cowser, Jr teaches non-fiction writing and literature at St. Lawrence University. Part memoir, investigative journalism and cultural study, Green Fields, focuses on the 1979 murder of one of Cowser's grade school classmates and the execution of her killer twenty years later. Todd Moe spoke with Cowser about his retelling of a gruesome murder.

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