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Flour for Widows

Noah talks with Nina Myatt, the curator of "Antiochiana," the local history archives at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They talk about the 102-year-old custom of distributing free flour to widows in the town for their Christmas baking. The tradition was started by a former slave, who bequeathed money to the town to continue the practice after he died.

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