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Folk artist Tom Russell brings his family saga to Tucson.
By Gregory McNamee
TRACING FAMILY HISTORY, genealogists will tell you, is
an inexact science. It s not so much for lack of data: the world
is afloat, after all, in birth and death certificates, deeds,
snapshots, home movies. The challenge in uncovering one s roots
is more often to separate fact from folklore, to cut through family
politics, whitewashing (see Robert Altman s new film Cookie s
Fortune for a case in point) and wishful thinking to find out
what skeletons really lurk in Grandpa s closet. Singer-songwriter Tom Russell takes on his family history folklore,