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Walt Disney Bio on PBS
When I was a child, the name Walt Disney was present everywhere. It was on children’s books, it was on a weekly TV show, ‘Disneyland’, where Walt himself was the smiling host. I assumed I knew everything about Walt Disney that I … Continue reading
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Duffy’s Cut
I don’t usually get emotional about a television program but tonight I saw something that I felt very close to. PBS broadcast a program about the fate of 57 Irish immigrant railroad workers who died in 1832. In 1832 a … Continue reading