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From the Archives: A 1970s college course challenged students to live off $35 for three weeks
On a cold night in January 1978, 22-year-old Dana Merryday walked through downtown Richmond with a duffel bag containing all of his belongings for the next three weeks. Merryday, a resident of Tallahassee, Florida, had never been to Virginia and found …