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Date Added: July 01, 2008 12:52:02 PM
During a 1960s interview with Voice of America, Marion Stoddart, a legendary environmentalist, introduced herself as a housewife from Groton. She wanted people to know that her profession or town boundaries didn't matter for her initiative to clean up the Nashua River, which was brimmed with copper-red toxic discharges from factories.

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