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‘A Better Chance for Me’: ABC Marks 50 Years in New Canaan

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Terry Trusty came to New Canaan late in the summer of 1974, a 15-year-old from Freeman, Va.—a small town in the segregated South dotted with tobacco farms.

He’d grown up proud that his father and grandfather purchased the family home using the G.I. Bill. “That was a wonderful thing,” he told NewCanaanite.com on a recent morning. “They had a 26-acre farm there. We had a nice house. Didn’t have any running water.

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Podcast: ABC House of New Canaan’s Jamie Boris

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to ABC House of New Canaan Executive Director Jamie Boris. The nonprofit organization’s Spring Luncheon is scheduled for April 5 at the Country Club of New Canaan (more information and tickets here). Here are recent episodes: