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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In February 2020, Hank Klibanoff was invited back to his hometown of Florence, Alabama for a live community event. It got him thinking about growing up in a state that was notorious for its civil rights abuses. Hank’s recollection of his childhood in the 1950’s and 60’s is that Florence seemed to be more progressive than the rest of Alabama. But… was it really?
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1:06.0 | This is Barry Truse. I'm Hank Clibbenoff. I received an email one day from the library in my hometown, |
1:13.4 | Florence, Alabama. Oh boy, I thought they're finally catching up with me. They're looking for |
1:20.3 | that biography of Hank Aaron. I checked out in elementary school and never returned. |
1:26.0 | But the email was actually a lovely invitation to bring Barry Truse to town, my hometown, |
1:32.8 | and record an episode there. I kind of like that idea. As I chat it with the library folks, |
1:39.9 | I mentioned something that's often been on my mind in the many years since I left Florence |
1:45.0 | for college and career. It was something that started as an observation. Actually a memory |
1:52.3 | that I really couldn't swear was true, and which became a theory that I couldn't prove. |
1:58.1 | On this special episode recorded before a live audience at the Florence Lauderdale Public Library, |
2:05.2 | we're going to explore that something. Now let me begin by locating Florence. It's way up in the |
2:11.2 | top left-hand corner of the state of Alabama and sits along the Tennessee River. The town probably |
2:18.3 | reached 30,000 people when I was growing up and is at about 40,000 now. There's much to talk and |
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