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The remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on American culture. In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest—Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas across the country, an experiment in cooperative living where people could start over. ...
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John R. Rohrbach/Rohrabaugh was born in Germany and came to America in 1749. He married Elizabeth Harness in 1760 in Pennsylvania. John and Elizabeth later settled in Hampshire County, Virginia. He later died in Hardy County, Virginia in 1821.
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