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Conservation of Matter: The Fall and Rise of Boston’s Elevated Subway, traces the fate of 100,000 tons of steel from the Boston Elevated Subway, which was erected in 1898, demolished in 1987-89, then shipped eight thousand miles away to be melted and re-formed into steel bars. Those products then cross the ocean again, where they are ultimately re-fabricated into a remarkable new structure in a surprising location. Workers, historians preachers, politicians, artists, riders, architects, astrophysicists and street people on two continents address the significance of the process as it unfolds.

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