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Roughly 4,000 people were displaced from highway construction through Grand Rapids: An interview with Fr. Dennis Morrow
This interview is re-posted from the Sept/Oct. 1996 issue of the FUNdamentalist, an independent newspaper that existed in Grand Rapids in the 1990s. This interview was with Fr. Dennis Morrow, a Catholic priest who has done slide shows for the … Continue reading
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