NPR's Laura Sydell takes us to visit them at the edge of the river where they work.

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Swan said Springsteen's 1975 breakthrough album, as well as subsequent albums "Darkness on the Edge of Town, " "The River, " "Born in the U.S.A" and "Nebraska, " talked about the shifting foundations of the U.S. economy before the subject became topical.

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