What Lies Beneath

October 02, 2012

What Lies Beneath

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The drought in Texas has caused some lakes to shrink. Some of them are revealing old secrets, like the town of Old Bluffton, which was submerged when the Colorado River was dammed 75 years ago. Dick talks with Alfred Hallmark, a local historian whose family used to live in Old Bluffton.

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