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Refugee In New England, James C. Thomson Jr.
Refugee In New England, James C. Thomson Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
James C. Thomson, Jr., in his vivid memoir "Refugee in New England," shows how our sense of place is central to the way in which we see ourselves and to our sense of belonging.
Accounts Of An Illness: Extracts, Ron Schreiber
Accounts Of An Illness: Extracts, Ron Schreiber
New England Journal of Public Policy
The following pieces, with an introduction by the author, are from a work in progress entitled John, to be published in the fall of 1988 by Hanging Loose Press and Calamus Books, New York City. In this work, Ron Schreiber, John's lover of nine years, writes a chronicle of a terminal illness from diagnosis to death.
Ron Schreiber's poems first appeared in Radical America's "Facing AIDS," a special issue devoted to AIDS.
We Were There, Irene Burns
We Were There, Irene Burns
New England Journal of Public Policy
Irene Burns and Robin Macdonald are friends. Neither knew Mitchell Holsman or Gretta Wren. And neither did Mitchell or Gretta know each other. All four live and work in New York City — Irene as a telecommunications consultant; Robin as a paralegal; Gretta as an office administrator; and Mitchell as a fashion designer — and all four were friends of John Krieter. It was the love inspired by that friendship that brought them together to care for him. He died of AIDS on January 24, 1988.
Other Journeys, Phillip Dross
Other Journeys, Phillip Dross
New England Journal of Public Policy
Phillip Dross was a writer. He was forty-three years of age when he died of AIDS in January 1987. Four years earlier, he had come to Newburyport, Massachusetts, to live and to face hard realities about himself — the legacy of a painful, confusing childhood in Florida, where he grew up, bouts with alcoholism, and his own shortcomings as a writer, for although he drove his friends to distraction talking about writing, he could not endure long hours alone, especially at the typewriter.
He made progress — the slow, plodding progress that characterizes the struggle within oneself that can be …
Uncle Monroe, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Uncle Monroe, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Trotter Review
Poem by Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely, the grandniece of William Monroe Trotter.