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August 8, 2008
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Classical Music
With Sylvia Docking

2:16
Hugo Alfven: Symphony #1: Scherzo (Royal Scottish National Orchestra)

2:24
Wolfgang Mozart: Violin Concerto #2 in D (Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra)

2:47
Erik Satie: Intimate & Secret Pieces

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Classical Music with Julie Amacher


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Classical Music with Valerie Kahler


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Army Opens Ravenna Arsenal for Tours

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

People who've always been curious about the Army's 21-thousand acre munitions plant in Ravenna are getting the chance to tour the facility this week.

WKSU's Julie Grant reports:

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Some buildings store National Guard equipment
People getting off the tour bus
Catwalks connect buildings
The army plans to burn six melt and pour buildings
Melt and pour building
Women worked making smaller explosive devices during WWII
A look inside
 
Contractors use wiring to check pipes for explosives
The 21-thousand acre site is surrounded by barbed wire fence




Listener Comments:

I remeber our family moving to Ravenna during WW II. We lived in an abandoned service station. I also remember that there was a train track behind the place we lived and I would get out and wave at the people in the train. May dad would work the midnight shif at times and would sleep in the back room that had been a storage room. The bed was out from the wall and in the middle of the room. I would ride a scooter around the bed and in the other room we had and it never seemed to bother him. He could sleep right on through the noise I made.

This was a time of trouble for America, but my dad and mom always seemed to keep it so that my brother


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