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Dec 2019
28m 8s

Episode 5: The Boy: Barlo, Kentucky 1917...

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Who speaks for the young dead lost beneath the fair earth? The Boy comes to Barlo.


CW: Frank discussion of historical child labor and depictions of injuries/death as a result of child labor and intentional harm, death by industrial fire, traumatic memories, references to a period psychiatric hospital, explosions.


Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards


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