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Many retreated into the hills to make their own way, the forefathers of today’s small-scale, self-sufficient farmers.
Lewis respected his civil rights forefathers but did not worship them.
Compare their modern and sadly more commercialized wares with their forefathers’ elaborate Baroque furniture exhibited at the Museo Correale, in an 18th-century palazzo at the east end of town — Sorrento’s only real museum of note.
As the Balkans flared to war once again, Greek nationalism has stirred, and there have been discussions in the kafeneion about the land of Macedonia returning to the fold of its forefathers.
Our forefathers didn't have sex and violence in mind when they crafted First Amendment freedoms.