Sid: Do people die having sex? Judy: Absolutely. Sid: Good way to go. Judy: Not for everybody. Sid: Oh. Yeah.

An excerpt from When Once Destroyed by Sid Shroyer In May 1955, after years of mysterious work and rumors, the Army Corps of Engineers let it slip that a massive three-pronged reservoir project in north central Indiana would ruin a rural community called Somerset in Wabash County. An “interim report” on the plan had been delayed several months. Seventy-Five Feet Above The Stream Bed Early in 1955, three-and-a-half months before the big Somerset-is-toast reveal, Congressman

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