New Year’s blast rocked Faith in early 1930s town
Reminiscence recalls a New Year’s blast that rattled Faith a small Salisbury area town. No deaths occurred though fallout turned the sky sooty. The narrator, a boy then, details a 400-person community with large families, rough play in woods and old games like Rush Captain Rush, amid a quiet rural childhood.
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