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"Standing in the cold, numbing rain, I was surrounded by a sea of brick rubble [and] rusting car bodies . . . The site was both foreboding as a focus of study and contaminated with cadmium." "High Caliber Discovery," Joel W. Grossman |
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For only the second time in the 25-year life of the Historic American Engineering Record, an archeologist joins a field project--with surprising results. For those who labored in the mills and made the short walk home to the company boardinghouses of Lowell, Massachusetts, "the Boott" was both workplace and living quarters. Skilled and unskilled alike toiled 12 hours a day, six days a week, seldom straying beyond the confines of the town. Today, beneath the streets, parking lots, and backyards of the modern city, their story awaits. Sloss Furnaces by Alex Lichtenstein
A Superfund cleanup yields an unexpected Civil War find, suggesting an espionage network that stretched from the Black Sea to the White House.
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