I had to explain what wetlands are, ... We call them swamps. But wetlands are natural sponges, and we need them to absorb water, to filter pollutants.
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When Mrs. Skinner saw this, she just cried and cried, ... Her baby is over there under that apartment.Rose Johnson
How can those people rest in peace with an apartment building over them What is wrong with this city Somebodys got to stop these fools.
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When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were whites only. So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms thenwe all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.
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The more often I came home, the more trees were gone. It was like my childhood was being eviscerated. There was another OfficeMax or Wal-Mart. This is not my home, I said. I felt in my heart the loss of Turkey Creek. But I think a more dangerous issue is the displacement of our culture.
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Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.
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Johnsons father, who had a fourth-grade education, worked all his life at a creosote plant operating on the banks of the creek. He took the little bit of money he made to feed his family and buy a piece of land. By the time he retired, ... his lungs were completely eroded, eaten up. He just made 70.
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