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Violet Snow is a freelance journalist, fiction writer, and memoirist. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times “Disunion” blog, Civil War Times, Woodstock Times, Energy Times, American Ancestors, and many other periodicals.
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Rural America
A Century Later, New York Activists Honor the Descendants of Those Displaced by Ashokan Reservoir
Violet Snow