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Boys in the Boat

by Celeste Barber

Jan 03, 2024
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The original Boys in the Boat on Lake Washington, 1936. Source: UWashington

The day after Christmas, I went to the movies with a friend. In a near-empty theater, we watched The Boys in the Boat, a film based upon the best-selling book of the same name about a junior varsity team from the Pacific Northwest, hard-hit by the Depression. The “boys” were the…

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