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Looking for America

Looking for America

On two American tunes

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Bethel McGrew
Jul 07, 2021
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Saginaw, Michigan, September, 2010: Across a small town, a mysterious artistic phenomenon begins to appear in unlikely places. Twenty-eight structures total are being decorated with what seem to be song lyrics, one line at a time. On the side of an abandoned building that used to serve “Mama Lillies Soul Food” for carry-out, red paint spells out “So we …

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