My younger brother Danny (left) and I in a photomatic at Lake Quaspaug Connecticut in 196. We entered foster care one month after this was taken.
How Congress Could Fix Obamacare for
Former Foster Children
One senator wants to add it to
child welfare legislation this fall.
BY DYLAN SCOTT
August 19, 2015 A Democratic
senator is hoping to attach a fix for one of the Affordable Care Act's numerous
glitches—this one for coverage of foster children—to child-welfare legislation
expected to move this Congress, National Journal has learned.
It will be a test of Democrats'
ability to finagle any minor changes to Obamacare while they are stuck in the
minority, and Republican willingness to accept any alterations that acknowledge
the law's likely continuation.
Sen. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania
has introduced a stand-alone bill that would address a problem for foster
children created by the health care law. Obamacare required states to provide
Medicaid coverage to former foster youths until age 26—a provision to accompany
the popular requirement that insurers allow children to stay on their parents'
insurance until the same age.
But the Obama administration interpreted
the law's language to mean that former foster children would be covered by
Medicaid only in the state where they had been in foster care. If they moved to
another state, they wouldn't be eligible to enroll in the program.
Casey's bill would clarify that
former foster kids should be eligible for Medicaid coverage in any state until
age 26.
It is one of those technical
fixes to Obamacare that Democrats have long hoped to make, but which
Republicans have been reluctant to take up while they advocate for the full
repeal of the law. The legislation has no other sponsors and no guarantee of
action in the GOP-controlled Senate.
So the primary strategy for
actually getting the policy enacted is wrapping it into a bigger child welfare
package that Congress is expected to advance later this year, a Casey aide
said.
Working in Casey's favor is that
a broader legislative package is likely to move. Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Orrin Hatch said this month that he hoped to mark up legislation in
the fall that would "reduce the reliance on foster-care group homes and
allow states to use their federal foster-care dollars for these prevention
services."
The underlying bill is expected
to be bipartisan. Senate Finance ranking member Ron Wyden introduced legislation
before the August recess aimed at Hatch's goals, and the senator from Utah
indicated a willingness to work with Wyden and other members of the committee
to put a proposal together.
But an Obamacare provision could
add drama to the process. Hatch's office did not respond to requests for
comment on Casey's bill.
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of
fiction.”
--Oscar Wilde
“Beauty is eternity gazing at
itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are
the mirror.”
Kahlil Gibran
People taking pictures of people: Galway, Ireland
I'm an amateur photographer, I travel a lot so some
years ago and I noticed that everywhere I went there was someone taking a photo
of someone else. It's part of the human condition and I think it’s fun so I
started snapping pictures of people taking pictures.
PHOTOGRAPHS I'VE TAKEN: IRELAND
PHOTOGRAPHS I'VE TAKEN: IRELAND
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS EDITORS.....................
Excerpt from my book "No Time to Say Goodbye:
Memoirs of a Life in Foster Care.
It was
about that time that I started to date a girl from town named Lina Lentz, a
voluptuous blonde with large brown eyes, a ready smile and a happy, easygoing
disposition. She was a pleasure to be with, and people liked her. She was
also—and this sounds much harsher than I intend it to sound—as dumb as a brick.
But she was the girl who laughed away the dark clouds, and she arrived exactly
at the right moment.
I met her
on a winter’s day, one of the best in my life. There is a large pond in the
middle of the village of Deep River, Roger’s Pond, and when it was frozen over
the locals ice fished and skated there. Teens congregated around a small fire
at the pond’s edge. That’s where I saw her first, standing around the fire with
her girlfriends, covered from neck to toe in a long black coat of a kind
popular with the girls that year. Her bright blonde hair poured out from under
a white crocheted hat and spread across her slender shoulders and seemed even
brighter set against her coat. White home-knitted mittens covered her small
hands, and the winter’s cold had turned her pretty face crimson. A fog settled
across the pond combined itself with the white smoke from the fire, and giving
her an angelic appearance. We stared in silence at each other for a full minute
until someone broke the spell and cracked, “So when’s the wedding for you two?”
It was a
good day.
Lina’s
family arrived in Deep River from Sweden in the early nineteenth century, and
her grandfather was one of the town’s founders. Her father was a rough sort,
with a gravelly voice and disposition that made me nervous. We were opposites
of each other in every way possible. He didn’t know what to make of me, or what
his daughter saw in me.
But he
didn’t have to worry about me marrying into the family since my relationship
with Lina was strictly physical, and nothing else. In fact, we barely spoke to
each other, and on reflection, I really didn’t know much about her, what she
liked, what she didn’t like, her favorite foods—nothing, really. I did know she
was a shapely, amorous girl who was fond of sex.
We spent
the early summer of 1969 in a massive field on the grounds of St. John’s that
gave a splendid view of the river below and was far away from everything else.
The field gave us privacy to get on with the heady business of exploring each
other’s bodies.
Lina
waited for me there, having already laid out a blanket for us and prepared a
lunch she brought from home. Like most kids of the time, we brought along
transistor radios and listened to our favorite AM rock stations, FM being
mostly an empty wasteland.
One day in
early May, we were laid out naked across the blanket, resting from our latest
round of explorations. We were silently staring up into the blue sky and
listening to the radio when toward the river I saw a large group of older
people with cameras and binoculars staring up at us from the nearby railroad
tracks.
“Look,” I
said. “Voyeurs!”
Lina opened
her eyes and saw them, smiled and waved at them, and several waved back. “What
country are voyeurs from?” she asked.
She stood
up and did a slow, very sexual interpretation of a football cheer for the
folks:
Give me
a T!
Give me
an I!
Give me
a E!
Give me
a T!
Give me
an S!
What’s
that spell?
Breasts!
As I said,
she was a good girl but she was a dumb girl, God bless her, and I stood and
gave her rousing applause anyway, and we both took long and graceful bows.
What we
didn’t know was that the group was made up of state and local officials who
were on a research trip to consider funding a tourist railroad on the old
tracks running along the river’s edge. Someone in the group sent Father Mac
Donald a grainy but accurate photo of Lina and I in all our naked, smiling
glory.
A few weeks
later, I was called into Father MacDonald’s capacious office on the second
floor, where he flashed the photo at me.
“Can you
explain this?” he snapped, his finger unknowingly tapping the portion of the
photo where Lina’s breasts were.
“No,
Father,” I said. I tried to sound repentant but I couldn’t. I found myself
fighting back the urge to burst out laughing. I don’t know if it was nerves or
the fact that I just didn’t care anymore.
He pushed
the black-and-white photo closer to my face and said, “Well, isn’t that
you?”
“No,
Father,” I laughed. “I don’t have boobs.”
He
literally threw the book at me, a large black bound book. I was restricted to
my room for two months and denied all privileges, and became a sort of legend
in the storied history of Mount Saint John.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/
In 1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and
two sisters entered Connecticut’s foster care system and were promptly split
apart. Over the next ten years, John would live in more than ten foster homes,
group homes and state schools, from his native Waterbury to Ansonia, New Haven,
West Haven, Deep River and Hartford. In the end, a decade later, the state
returned him to the same home and the same parents they had taken him from. As
tragic as is funny compelling story will make you cry and laugh as you journey
with this child to overcome the obstacles of the foster care system and find
his dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/
http://amemoirofalifeinfostercare.blogspot.com/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washington
DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. He is the author of
numerous non-fiction on the history of organized crime including the ground
break biography of bootlegger Roger Tuohy "When Capone's Mob Murdered
Touhy" and "Guns and Glamour: A History of Organized Crime in
Chicago."
His non-fiction crime short stories have appeared in The
New Criminologist, American Mafia and other publications. John won the City of
Chicago's Celtic Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short
story fiction work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in
October of 2008.
His play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a public
performance at the Actors Chapel in Manhattan in February of 2007 as part of
the groups Reading Series for New York project. In June of 2008, the play won
the Virginia Theater of The First Amendment Award for best new play.
Contact John: JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
Paul
Pry
(paul pry) noun An excessively inquisitive person. From a character in the
comedic play Paul Pry by John Poole (1786-1872). Earliest documented use: 1826.
Also see nosy parker.
Lorelei: (LOR-uh-ly)
noun: A dangerously seductive woman. In German legend Lorelei was a nymph who
sat on a rock of the same name on the Rhine river. Her songs lured sailors to
their destruction on the rock. Earliest documented use: 1878. Also see siren,
Mata Hari, and Circe.
An
eponym is a word coined after a person, from Greek epi- (upon) +
-onym (name). The English language has thousands of them, for men and women,
from fact and fiction, obscure and well-known, home-grown and borrowed from
other languages.
HERE'S PLEASANT POEM FOR YOU TO ENJOY................
Magellan Street, 1974
by Maxine Kumin
Magellan Street, 1974
This is the year you fall in
love with the Bengali poet,
and the Armenian bakery stays
open
Saturday nights until eleven
across the street from your sunny
apartment with steep fo'c'sle
stairs
up to an attic bedroom.
Three-decker tenement flank you.
Cyclone fences enclose
flamingos on diaper-size lawns.
This is the year, in a kitchen
you brighten with pots of basil
and untidy mint, I see how
your life will open, will burst
from
the maze in its walled-in garden
and streak towards the horizon.
Your pastel maps lie open
on the counter as we stand here
not quite up to exchanging
our lists of sorrows, our day
books,
our night thoughts, and burn the
first batch
of chocolate walnut cookies.
Of course you move on,
my circumnavigator.
Tonight as I cruise past your
corner,
a light goes on in the window.
Two shapes sit at the table.
Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 –
February 6, 2014) was a poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982
In 1957, she studied poetry with
John Holmes at the Boston Center for Adult Education. There she met Anne
Sexton, with whom she started a friendship that continued until Sexton's
suicide in 1974. Kumin taught English from 1958 to 1961 and 1965 to 1968 at
Tufts University; from 1961 to 1963 she was a scholar at the Radcliffe
Institute for Independent Study. She also held appointments as a visiting
lecturer and poet in residence at many American colleges and universities. From
1976 until her death in February 2014, she and her husband lived on a farm in
Warner, New Hampshire, where they bred Arabian and quarter horses.
Kumin's many awards include the
Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize for Poetry (1972), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
(1973) for Up Country, in 1995 the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American
Poetry, the 1994 Poets' Prize (for Looking for Luck), an American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters Award for excellence in literature (1980), an
Academy of American Poets fellowship (1986), the 1999 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize,
and six honorary degrees. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was
produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Kumin's name and picture.
In 1981–1982, she served as the poetry consultant to the Library of Congress.
She taught poetry in New England
College's Low-Residency MFA Program. She was also a contributing editor at The
Alaska Quarterly Review. Together with fellow-poet Carolyn Kizer, she first
served on and then resigned from the board of chancellors of the Academy of
American Poets, an act that galvanized the movement for opening this august
body to broader representation by women and minorities.
Kumin, aged 88, died in February
2014 at her home in Warner, following a year of failing health.
Author of new book says Americans
have famous Robert Frost poem all wrong
His name is David Orr. Author of
The Road Not Taken, he is a poetry columnist for the New York Times Book
Review. David calls the famous Robert Frost poem that shares the title and
subject of his new book "the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets
wrong." Orr's book, released August 18, 2015, comes down the road to
poetry enthusiasts one hundred years after the first printing of Frost's great
poem in August 1915.
"I began the book by talking
about a commercial in New Zealand, and it’s a commercial for Ford cars,"
explained Orr during an interview with Jeffrey Brown of PBS, "And the
narration of the commercial is nothing but someone reading 'The Road Not Taken.'
They don’t attribute it to Frost. They don’t even tell you what it is. They
just read the poem. The fact that you could recite a poem written by an
American in New Zealand today, a 100-year-old poem, is pretty amazing, and that
they’re expected to recognize it, know what it is, have associations with it. I
mean, it’s an incredibly popular piece of writing."
The poem, quintessentially
written as a play on choice, has long been a subject of study assigned to
students by high school teachers and college and university professors. In his
book synopsis on Amazon, Orr asks two questions: "Is ['The Road Not
Taken'] a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly
chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human
self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later
romanticizes the decision as life altering?"
The poetry columnist added that
Frost's famous last line is often quoted in graduation speeches and
commercials: “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the
difference.” Perhaps the car commercial meant to convey that sense of
individuality one can achieve by traveling down the road in the choice of
vehicle being advertised. Orr stated, "There’s no company in the world
that would put the poem up as part of their commercial if they knew what the
poem is more likely to mean."
Orr says he believes Frost used
the poem to convey that it doesn't matter which road is taken. "In the
middle of the poem," said Orr, "Frost writes: 'Though as for that the
passing there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning
equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black...' And, in fact, what Frost is
suggesting is that when the speaker later claims that the road he took was less
traveled and that it made all the difference, the speaker will just be making
up a story after the fact to justify a choice that maybe wasn’t even really a
choice in the first place."
David Orr shared what he believes
is some of Robert Frost's personal reasoning for writing the piece. Per Orr,
Frost "claims that he wrote it because he used to go on walks with the
English poet Edward Thomas, because Frost spent a brief time in England. It was
actually the beginning of his career as a poet." The young Thomas would
often regret whichever path the two had taken, and Frost wrote this great poem
as "a joke at his friend's expense."
One of the catalysts for
consternation among poetry readers is the true meaning of any given poem. A
true poet is a wordsmith, and many scholars would not argue that Robert Frost
ranks among the best of the best of poets throughout history. His words are
crafted upon the page, chosen one-by-one, much as DaVinci would have selected
each chosen color to blend into the hint of a smile on his great masterpiece.
To open the book on discussion
for this classic poem, with the book's release and consequent news coverage, is
a great service to American literature in 2015. The commentary alone, from the
PBS News interview with Orr, has proven that poetry, like chivalry, is not
dead. One admitted college English professor posted that he was 'thrilled to
see that someone finally 'got' this poem.' The commenting professor pointed out
that 'Frost's poems often shift on a word, not an image or a line.'
The Road Not Taken was published
for the poem’s centennial, along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of
Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself.
Here is the poem in its entirety
for your perusal.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow
wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I
could
To where it bent in the
undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as
fair,
And having perhaps the better
claim
Because it was grassy and wanted
wear,
Though as for that the passing
there
Had worn them really about the
same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden
black.
Oh, I kept the first for another
day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to
way
I doubted if I should ever come
back.
I shall be telling this with a
sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference.
Robert Frost
Some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them.
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Excerpt from my book "When Capone’s Mob Murdered Touhy.”
Roger wrote that he had two business deals with Capone in 1927 because
Capone had trouble getting beer for his joints. Capone called Touhy and asked
him to sell him 500 barrels and since Touhy had a surplus he agreed and told
Capone to send 500 empties to the cooperage. He would send 500 barrels back for
the price of $37.50 per barrel, a discount because of the large order.
Capone called back and asked for another 300 barrels. Touhy agreed and
told Capone when he expected to be paid. The day before the money was due,
Capone called and said that 50 of the barrels were leakers and that he wouldn't
pay.
'I'll pay you for seven hundred and fifty, ok?" 'You owe me for
eight hundred and I expect to be paid for eight hundred."
"Well the boys told me there were some leakers, but I'll check on
it."
Capone paid the $30,000 in cash and called a week later and asked for
more. Touhy refused, saying his regular customers were taking all of his
output. Knowing that it may have been Capone testing his ability to draw him in
or to see what he could produce by taking him to be his biggest customer, 'What
was the use of needling him by saying I didn't do business with weasels."
In late 1927, Capone told Willie Heeney, Roger's former business
partner, to go out to Des Plains to see Roger and encourage him to come around
to Capone's way of thinking. By now, Heeney was working full time in the
outfit's enormous prostitution racket where he would stay until the depression
set in and he switched over to labor racketeering and narcotics. He soon became
his own best customer and became hooked on heroin.
Roger agreed to meet Heeney at the Arch, one of his road houses in
Schiller Park, managed by his brother Eddie. Arriving with Heeney at the
meeting was Frankie Rio, Capone's favorite bodyguard and enforcer whose
presence was no doubt meant to impress Touhy. Heeney was the spokesman, telling
them that Capone wanted to open the county for brothels, taxi dance halls and
punch board rackets. He was willing to split the proceeds evenly with Kolb and
Touhy to which Rio added, "A1 says this is virgin territory for whorehouses."
Roger told Henney that he didn't want or need Capone as a partner, and
that although the locals might tolerate speakeasies and gambling dens,
whorehouses and taxi dance halls were something else. However, there was at
least one brothel in operation in Des Plains at 304 Center Street, apartment
38, above Matt Kolb's brother's laundry store/handbook operation. There were at
least three women working on the property and photos of the nude women were
later taken from Willie Sharkey when he was arrested in Wisconsin. The FBI
later noted that "there were many noisy parties in this apartment and
numerous men visited them." A neighbor noted that "six men at a time
would enter or leave the apartment together. The next group would enter the
apartment only after the first group had left."
FBI agents later tracked down two of the women and described them in
their reports as "nice looking women" and "very attractive
women. "
Among those identified as regulars to the apartment were
"Chicken" McFadden, Basil Banghart and George Wilke. Willie Sharkey,
Touhy's enforcer, rented an apartment in the building under the name T.J. Burns
and used the Park Ridge Chief of Police as his reference.
Next, Capone sent Jimmy Fawcett and Murray "the Camel"
Humpreys out to Des Plains to talk to Roger. The probable reason for sending
Fawcett and Humpreys to see Touhy was, in all likelihood, to try one last time
to get him to fall into line before the real shooting started. Sending Fawcett,
an old hand Capone gunman, was a smart move. Touhy had known Fawcett for years,
the two of them living along the edges of Chicago unionism for several years.
Humpreys may have been new to Touhy. The Camel, Touhy said, did all the
talking. Humpreys got things off to a bad start. He said Touhy was
"putting [his] nose where it don't belong and that means trouble."
'Mr. Capone" the Camel hissed, 'is upset at the Touhys and that
isn't good." Capone wanted Touhy to stop offering protection to the
Teamster Union bosses.
Afterward Roger went to Cicero with him and Fawcett and talked over the
problems with Frank Nitti. There are several versions of what happened next,
but the end result of each version is the same.
When the Camel was done with his threats, Touhy put a pistol into his
mouth and told him never to show his face in Des Plains again. Humpreys offered
to buy back his life with his new car but Touhy let them go. After the pair had
left, Fawcett returned and offered "to kill Humpreys on the way back into
Chicago and for an extra few grand, Rog, I'll knock off that son of a bitch
Nitti too."
Years later, Touhy told the story, or at least a cleaned up version of
it, in his memoir. When the book hit the streets, an infuriated and humiliated
Murray Humpreys denied that it ever happened.
Capone tried a different tactic; he would push Touhy to see how far he
could get before a shooting war broke out. Starting in the early summer of
1927, he tried to work his way into Touhy's territory by opening several
whorehouses just inside Des Plains. That same day, Roger and Tommy Touhy,
backed by several truckloads of their men and a squad of Cook County police,
raided the bordellos, broke them up and chased the women back to Chicago. All
the while, Capone kept sending his beer salesmen into Touhy's territory where
they achieved a fair amount of success by drastically undercutting Touhy's
prices, but the ever shrewd Kolb recognized Capone's ploy and refused to be
prodded into a price war that they couldn't win. Instead, the Touhys responded
by sending a simple message to any saloon keeper who sold Capone's beer inside
their territory. If the bar owner sold Capone's brew, they would wreck the
place. If he continued, they would burn his place to the ground. That was the
way Joe Touhy, Roger's older brother, died, in June of 1929. Eyewitnesses said
that Joe and his crew were breaking up a speakeasy that the Capones had opened
in Schiller Park. When a waiter reached for something under the bar, Joe
Touhy's own man, a hood named Paul Pagen, fired off a warning burst from his
machine gun, accidentally killing Touhy.
Johnny Touhy, the third eldest brother, didn't call it an accident. He
killed Pagen in revenge for Joe's murder and was sentenced to prison for ten
years to life. However he was released in four years, his brothers having
purchased his freedom with bribes. "And that's what money," wrote the
Chicago Tribune of John's release, "well spent in Chicago will do. "
A few months after his parole was granted, Johnny was arrested again for
attempted murder of a Capone goon. He was sent back to StatevillePrison where
he died of consumption in a barren hospital room.
The remaining brothers, Roger, Tommy and Eddie, declared war on Capone
after Joe was killed and Johnny was jailed. From 1928 until 1930, the dusty
back roads of northern Cook County ran red with gangster blood from an
otherwise quiet gang war that went largely unnoticed until 1931, when all hell
broke loose.
Modern day Thoreau spreads word
of living deliberately
BY HUGH MARKEY FOR THE SUN
CHRONICLE
The Transcendentalist writer
Henry David Thoreau pulled up stakes in the mid-19th century to spend two
years, two months and two days in the Walden woods.
While careful readers will know
that he was not completely isolated (he often dined with his good friend and
fellow writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, and lived a mere two miles outside town),
the fact that he committed himself to the natural world is no small feat.
In his words, Thoreau went to the
woods to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived."
In 2012, Keith Cowley spent 365
days visiting the woods for six to eight hours a day. Now he is trying to
spread some of what the woods taught him about living deliberately by
establishing the New-Native Foundation, which he hopes will encourage people to
act in an environmentally ethical way.
Cowley, 34, of Westerly,
describes his organization as a resource for outdoors people dedicated to
living in harmony with nature, which includes sustainable farming and foraging,
ethical hunting, trapping and foresting.
Those who choose to continue that
ethic become a part of what he calls the American system of Traditional
Ecological Knowledge, or ATEK.
"I'm a forager, and that's
my main commitment to the ATEK experience. Foraging is a way to connect to the
environment. I forage for food, especially things like mushrooms, nuts and
berries. As an ethical forager, we only take what's necessary. There are
certain techniques that we use to insure that a crop will return.
"For example, rather than
take an entire plant, we will take only a portion. Likewise, we may take only
enough of a given plant so that it will not adversely affect the ecosystem of a
given area. And there are other ways of foraging, such as bush craft (using
materials found in the outdoors to create furniture, tools and crafts) that can
be done ethically."
The idea of creating ATEK came to
Cowley during that year-long experiment in 2012 when he committed himself to
spending serious time in the outdoors.
"I had the time on my hands.
I had just come off a five-year period where I was learning about internal
arts, such as different forms of meditation," he said.
Cowley secured the cooperation of
the Westerly Community Land Trust, visiting that town's property holdings as
part of his daily visits. During this period, he would let nature dictate the
course of his day. His time involved meditation as well as exercise and
exploration. Gradually, the idea of establishing a resource for others came to
mind.
"I thought I could be the
guy to challenge people and ask, 'Who are you?' 'Where do you come from?',
'Where do you live? Are you responsible for the environment from which you
come?'"
Eventually, Cowley founded the
New-Native Foundation (www.newnativefoundation.org), a website that invites
people to "re-discover America." He sees the need for rediscovery as
going back to Colonial times.
"When we came here, we
became disconnected from the land. We did not treat the indigenous people well
and, even today, much of our food doesn't even come from around here. That's
why we're encouraging a new approach, one that embraces nature, so that all the
decisions we make going forward, whether in our personal lives or in business
all derive from an awareness of nature.
"At the moment, part of the
problem is that we don't have an educational system to encourage
environmentally sensitive foraging and other connections to the natural
environment. That's where ATEK comes in."
Cowley envisions the
establishment of a human resource organized through ATEK, where people will be
willing to help others identify the ethical behavior in their lives.
"I believe that everyone is
a knowledge keeper, to some degree or density. The takeaway for the average
person is to be resourceful, to consider their environment in every decision,
and to know that there is a resource out there to explain whether an action is
environmentally ethical. Hopefully, through the New-Native Foundation, there
will be people out there who can help answer that question."
***
Keith Cowley is the author of
"Environmental Connection: A New-Native Initiative," which is
available atwww.newnativefoundation.org.
Hugh Markey is a freelance
writer, naturalist and teacher living in Richmond, R.I. Read more of his work
on his blog "Science and Nature for a Pie" at
http://scienceandnatureforapie.com and follow him on Facebook
athttp://facebook.com/scienceandnatureforapie.
"Out of love
and hatred out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of
sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting
and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt comes our tuition in the
serene and beautiful laws."
Excerpt from my book “On the
Waterfront: The
Making of a Great American Film”
BIT
PART PLAYERS
Fred
Gwynne: For the role of an uneducated
goon named Slim, Kazan chose six foot five actor Frederick Hubbard Gwynne, or
Fred Gwynne, the son of a wealthy Wall Street broker (His mother was a
cartoonist) who died from complications after routine surgery in 1932. During the war, Fred enlisted in the Navy and
served on a sub chaser, on his discharge attended the New York Phoenix School
of Design. The role of Slim, small as it
was, was a stretch for the Groton Prep, Harvard University graduate ('51) where
he performed in the drag troupe, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and was president
and chief cartoonist of The Harvard Lampoon After a successful run in A
Midsummer Night's Dream, he moved to New York to pursue a career in films and
stage. To tall and unattractive to be a
leading man, he landed a supporting role in Mrs. McThing on Broadway, starring
Helen Hayes, working part time as a copywriter for the J. Walter Thompson
Advertising agency to make ends meet between assignments.
After
Waterfront, his first film role, he landed his first major Broadway role in the
musical, Irma La Duce where TV producer Nat Hiken who hired Gwynne to co-star
as Francis Maldoon in the NBC television series, Car 54, Where Are You? (1961-1963)
Just
before the show was canceled, one of his children drowned in the family
pool. Between Waterfront and Car 54, he
published his first children's book in 1958, Best in Show. In 1964, he was cast in the CBS television
series, The Munsters, which typecast the actor for nearly two decades. In that time, he penned several more
children's books including God's First World, A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, and
A Little Pigeon Toad. He returned to the
stage in the early 1970s, and won critical acclaim as Big Daddy in the Broadway
revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Elizabeth Ashley and as Claudius in
Hamlet, and the stage manager in Our Town.
In 1976, he won an Obie Award for his performance in the off-Broadway
play, Grand Magic.
He made a return to the screen with a small
role in Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna, Ironweed, Fatal Attraction, The Cotton Club
and My Cousin Vinny. Gwynne retired in
the early 1992 with his wife Deborah to his farm in Rural Maryland, accepting
occasional voice-over work. In the later
part of the year, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died on July 2,
1993, at the age of 66. During the trial
scene in Waterfront, when asked for his name Gwynne, as Slim, answers “Malden
Skulovich” fellow actor Karl Malden’s real name.
Thomas
Hanley played the role of Tommy, the
little boy who idolizes Terry Malloy. He
was 13 years old when he ran across an assistant producer on the film
installing Terry Malloy’s pigeon coops on the roof of his apartment
building. Hanley recalled “We were
alone, my mother and I. My father had
been a dockworker and was murdered by the mob when I was 4 months old. We were dead broke. My mother hadn’t paid the rent in eight
months. Still when I found Brownie
(Arthur Brown, the Assistant producer former dockworker and a drinking buddy of
Schulberg’s) I said, “What are you doing on my roof” here we were 8 months behind
in the rent and I was calling it my roof!
Brownie said that he had known my dad and that he was going to get me a
part in the film. I didn’t believe him. I didn’t think he had that kind of pull. He paid me a couple of bucks a week to feed
the pigeons but only because he thought I would tear the coop down if he didn’t
pay. But he got me the part.”
Brownie arranged for Hanley to be brought down
to Manhattan to the Actor’s Studio where Schulberg and Kazan were testing for
parts. “Kazan and Schulberg and Brando were wonderful to me. Kinder then they had to be. They were trying to help me.” In the first meeting, Kazan wanted to get a
reaction out of the boy to test his acting skills "They knew my
background, and Kazan said my father was probably murdered because he was a
squealer. They were trying to provoke
me, and I flung a chair across the room.
That's the response Kazan wanted.”
Marlon Brando told me to bring my mother to
the set on day and I did. He told her
that he had arranged for me to have an agent to help me get more roles. He was a very decent guy. To get me geared up, emotional, for the scene
where I throw the dead pigeon at Marlon, Kazan and Schulberg put me in a room
with a guy from the neighborhood, he had a role in the film as a cop, and I
hated him. The guy made some remarks
about my father and got me upset and that’s how I was so emotional for the
part”
Kazan’s was famous for manipulating
performers to get a desired reaction.
During the filming of Viva Zapata, Kazan apparently told Anthony Quinn
that Brando was saying horrible things about him behind his back to heighten
the conflict between their two characters on screen. The criticism of this technique, while it is
necessary occasionally, but as a pattern,
suggested to many in Hollywood that Kazan held a cynicism and a lack of confidence in his
ability to convince actors of the emotional truth of a scene and provide the
means to arrive at it.
Kazan the child him $500 a week for three weeks’
worth of work. “It kept us from
starving…..He (Brando) was just a real regular guy," he says. "He could have had the limo pick him up
to come to work every morning, but instead he took the train in from Manhattan
dressed as a longshoreman. People
respected that. They loved Karl Malden,
too."
Hanley
went on to earn his living as a dockworker.
In 2005, he was running as a reform candidate for union steward in the
mobbed up ILA local that still runs the Hoboken ports.
Martin Balsam,
by then a veteran character actor of stage and television, made his film debut
in Waterfront, (uncredited though it was) as Crime Commission investigator
Gillette. Raised in the Bronx, Balsam
was the oldest of three children of women’s sportswear sales clerk whose motto
was "All actors are bums.” Regardless,
after service in the Navy during the second war, Balsam joined New York's
Actors Studio, supporting himself by waiting on tables and ushering at Radio
City Music Hall.
Balsam followed Waterfront with a beefy role
in Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men (1957) and strong performances as the doomed
solider in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the police chief in Cape Fear (1962, he
was also in the 1991 remake by Scorsese) and the studio chief in Edward
Dmytryk's The Carpetbaggers (1964). In
1965, he won a well-deserved Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his
performance as Jason Robards Jr.'s agent brother in A Thousand Clowns.
Leif
Erikson played the role of the second
Waterfront Crime Commission Investigator, Glover. Erikson had been a big band singer and
trombone player before moving into acting in 1935 when he made his debut as a
corpse in the Zane Grey Western.
Erickson was under contract to Universal during the early 1940s before
joining the military during World War 2 (he was injured in combat twice)
although he had been in at least 20 films; Waterfront was his leading credit up
until that point. He had been married to
the troubled actor Frances Farmer. They
divorced in 1942. A year later, she was
wrongfully declared mentally incompetent in 1943 and committed to an asylum for
seven years before she was released.
Erickson later made it big on television on the program The High
Chaparral (1967-71).
UNCREDITED
ROLES IN THE FILM
Dan Bergin
played the role of Sidney. Born in
Ireland, as were several other members of the cast and crew, Waterfront was his
first film. Bergin was a film editor by
training.
Don Blackman
plays the role of Luke, the only African American in the film with a line. (Several African-Americans are pictured in
the film) Blackman was a professional
wrestler who landed uncredited roles in several films before Waterfront. Aside from Waterfront, he best remembered as
The Doll Man in Blacula films of the 1970s.
Rudy Bond
played Moose. A combat infantry veteran
in World War 2, Kazan introduced him to acting when he enrolled him in the
Actors Studio. He went on to have a role
in most of Kazan’s more important productions.
He later played the role of Cuneo in The Godfather.
Jere Delaney
had an uncredited role in the film as a dockworker. A stage actor, Waterfront was his last
film. (Out of only three, he appeared
in)
Anthony Galento
The heavyweight fighter Two Ton Tony Galento (Dominic Anthony Galento) makes a
brief appearance in the film as Truck, one of John Friendly's goons. Galento, who once replied to an inquiry about
his thoughts on William Shakespeare by saying, "I'll moider da bum."
knocked down heavyweight great Joe Louis in their 1939 title match in the second
round. Louis made it to his feet on the
two count and won the match. The night
before the Louis fight, Tony’s brother walked into his bar and asked Tony for a
couple if free tickets for the fight.
Tony told him to stand in line like everybody else. His brother hit him over the head with a beer
bottle. The bartender stitched up the
three-inch gash in his head and the Lewis fight stayed on schedule. That same night, Lewis gave him 23 more
stitches in the face.
Galento, at 5 foot 9 and 250 pounds, (“A beer
barrel with feet” the New York Times called him) was a Northern New Jersey
hero, who took on the best heavyweights of his day including Max Bear and
closed out his career with a 74-22-6 record with 51 knockouts. Galento, a notoriously dirty fighter, tormented
his opponents inside and outside the ring.
The usually east going Joe Lewis said that Galento was the only man in
the entire sport of boxing he ever hated.
He trained on beer and southern Italian food. He hated the country and refused to go into
the mountains to a training camp.
Instead, he did his roadwork after dark in New Jersey because, he said,
"I fight at night, don’t I?"
Galento would appear in two other films, Wind
Across the Everglades and The Best Things in Life Are Free. Galento died on July 22, 1979 after a
three-year battle against diabetes that cost him the amputation of a foot,
then, later both legs.
Michael
Gazzo Waterfront also introduced the
great actor Michael Gazzo in an uncredited bit part. He became better known as Frankie Pentangeli
on the Godfather Trilogy. The film’s
director, Francis Ford Coppola wanted Kazan to play the role of Hyman Roth in
the film, Godfather 11, but Kazan declined.
Gazzo was also a respected acting teacher and
award-winning playwright who wrote the acclaimed work A Hatful of Rain a portrait
of a lower-middle-class worker who attempts to break his drug addiction. It was turned into a film in 1957, co-written
by Gazzo. He also wrote King Creole, an
Elvis Presley film.
Gazzo broke into show business as a stage
director and actor at the Great Neck Playhouse in New York, while studying at
the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research in the mid-1940s. He had a life long association with the
Actors Studio. Most of his career was
spent as a writer and teacher. He came
back to film in the 1971 film, The Gang that Couldn't Shoot straight, based
loosely on the life of gangster Joey Gallo.
He received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his work in
the Godfather Part Two, an award he probably should have won. (Waterfront extra Rudy Bond also played a
role in the Godfather films, as Mafia Don Cuoneo)
Suzanne Hahn
landed a bit role in the film. Then an
out of work actor, she had recently graduated from LSU where her roommate was
actor Joan Woodward. In mid-December of
1953, she got a telegram telling her to report to Hoboken for a work as an
extra. The telegram had arrived late and
Hahn assumed that she would not be hired.
However, on the bus ride over to New Jersey she sat next to one of
Kazan’s assistant directors who was also late for work. He managed to get her a walk on role as a bar
fly type who sauntered over to the jukebox and leans over it looking at the
selection. The job lasted for three
weeks. Three years later, she landed
another role in the Broadway production of The Three Penny Opera where she met
actor John Astin. They were married in
1956. Two of their three children are
actors.
John F. Hamilton played Pop Doyle. He had been appearing in films since
1924. Waterfront was his last role. Born in Britain, Hamilton had appeared in
several films as a child including one Hitchcock film, which has since been
lost.
John Heldabrand
played the role of Mutt. Waterfront was
his first film. He appeared, briefly, in
one other film and never acted again.
Anna Hegira
played the role of Mrs. Collins, the women in the alley. Waterfront was her first film. She is best known for her role as Thomna in
the film The Arrangement
Pat Hingle
(Martin Patterson Hingle) played the uncredited role of Jocko the Bartender in
the scene where Terry takes Edie for a drink.
"We were filming in Hoboken, New Jersey, in late fall," he
recalled. They were mostly doing the waterfront
scenes, but they had some interior scenes ready, in case the weather got bad. Therefore, I was there, day after day, in my
apron, waiting for the weather to turn - but it never did. Anyway, I watched Kazan - and it was
fascinating. He worked differently with every actor on the set, finding his own
way to communicate with all of them."
He later became better known as Commissioner
Gordon in the Batman movies.
Interestingly enough Alan Napier, who played the role of Alfred the
Butler on the Batman television series, also played the role of the Communist
ringleader in John Wayne's Anti-Communist-Pro-HUAC film, Big Jim McLean.
Hingle was a solid character player on stage,
screen and TV for over four decades. He
began acting as a student at the University of Texas, made the move to New York
in the late 1940s, studied at the American Theater Wing, and became Kazan's
protégé at the Actor's Studio. He
followed Waterfront with a breakthrough-supporting role in Kazan's Splendor in
the Grass (1961), as Warren Beatty's brusque father.
Hingle appeared in a series of Clint Eastwood
flicks including the conflicted police chief father of a rapist in Sudden
Impact (1983) and as the hanging judge in Hang 'Em High (1968); He played a
bartender again in The Quick and the Dead (1995). His other work would include roles in Shaft
(2000) The Grifters (1990) Batman (1989) The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Nevada Smith (1966) The Ugly American (1963) Splendor in the Grass (1961) Norma
Rae, The Gauntlet, The Carey Treatment and others. Waterfront was his first film
Clifton James
held an uncredited role in the film. His
other worked included Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Eight Men Out (1988) Cool Hand Luke (1967) The Chase (1966)
Black Like Me (1964) Invitation to a Gunfighter, The Man With the Golden Gun,
The Reivers The Last Detail, Will Penny, Superman II, Silver Streak and back to
New Jersey again in Hell, Heaven or Hoboken
Tommy Kennedy
a retired Hoboken police officers was hired as an extra for the film at
$7. When payday came, he was given
$5. "Where's the other deuce?” I asked.
"And I soon learned it was a kickback, just like the dock workers
[pay] in the film. The movie's part of
Hoboken history. As a cop I got stopped
so many times by tourists who wanted to know where Marlon Brando fought Lee J.
Cobb that I probably could've made more money as a tour guide."
Frankie Fame,
an uncredited gangster, took the job because it paid “$2 an hour and a cup of
coffee. I knew the heavyweight boxer
Tony Galento from Jersey City. He got me
into On the Waterfront. To this day, my kids whoop it up when they see me
diving for chips in the shape-up.”
Arthur Keegan
played Jimmy played a dockworker. Before
Waterfront, he had a small role in From Here to Eternity as Treadwell, (1953)
Otherwise; Waterfront was his last credited film.
Scottie MacGregor played an uncredited role as a Longshoreman’s
mother. A stage actor by training she is
best known for her role as Mrs. Olson on the television program Little House on
the Prairie.
Edward McNally
played an uncredited role as Terry Malloy’s neighbor. Waterfront was his first
film out of career total of 17 films.
Barry Malcolm
starred as Johnny Friendly’s banker.
Born in Ireland, he had been in films since 1923.
Tiger Joe Marsh
(born Joseph Marusich) played an uncredited role of a police officer; however,
Kazan would also cast him in bit parts in Viva Zapata! and Panic in the Streets. He also had a role in The Joe Louis Story
(1953) Marsh was an interesting
character. A Chicagoan from the wrong
side of the tracks, he had been a professional wrestler, winning the World
Heavyweight title in 1937. He continued
wrestling into the late 1950s and later was the original model for Mr. Clean
advertisements. His career had a revival
in the early 1980s when he appeared on Simon & Simon in the role of
Otto.
Tami Mauriello
as Tillio. Mauriello was a tough,
talented former light heavyweight who had failed in two courageous title
attempts against champion Gus Lesnevitch, in the 1940s. After an 11 bout winning streak in the
heavyweight division, Mauriello became Joe Louis's second title defense after
his military service, September 18, 1946 in New York. Mauriello stunned Louis briefly with a wild
right, but wound up a first-round KO victim.
Tami became a boxing trivia item when he told a live network radio interviewer:
"I hurt Louis, but I got too God damn careless." Tami did knock out heavy weight great Jersey
Joe Wolcott, Mauriello was a close friend of Frank Sinatra. Once, during a scene that included Mauriello
facing the camera, the boxer was expressionless. Kazan needed him to look angry. The five foot five and a half inch wiry
director leaped from his chair, smacked the fighter as hard as he could across
the face and yelled "Okay, roll em"
Mauriello was frozen for a moment, stupefied. When he regained his sense, he lunged at
Kazan and had to be pulled back by the stagehands, while Kazan walked backwards
away from the set explaining, “It’s a method of acting Tam, that’s all!”
Mike O’Dowd
played Specs.
Nehemiah Persoff played the cabdriver. Born in Jerusalem, Israel he moved to the US
age 9. He went on to star in Schulberg’s
story, The Harder they Fall and became the voice of Papa Mousekewitz in An
American Tail: Fievel Goes West, (1991) In his career; Persoff appeared in over
500 television programs and films.
William Ramoth
was a Clifton New Jersey Policeman who had fought professionally under the name
Billy Kilroy. He was introduced into the
New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in November 1978. Ramoth heard that former heavyweight
contender Anthony "Two Ton Tony" Galento was in Hoboken for the
filming Waterfront and Ramoth, who knew Galento, drove over to Hoboken to see
him. The pair was having a drink in a
tavern when Kazan walked in and noticed that Ramoth, who was wearing a leather
jacket, resembled Marlon Brando from a distance. He asked Ramoth if he had any boxing
experience. He was hired as Brando’s
double for the fight scenes. Ramoth went
on to do fight scenes and serve as a technical adviser in 12 more films,
acting, as Paul Newman's double in The Hustler and Somebody Up There Likes
Me. He also made guest appearances on
several television shows, including To Tell the Truth and I've Got a Secret.
Rosie the Cat
There is a scene in the film where Brando picks up Edie’s cat, which earlier
Pop Doyle explains, is a stray, which was taken in by Edie, and he cares
for. The cats name was Rosie and it
lived upstairs in an apartment above the saloon used as Johnny Friendly’s bar. When the cat walked across a shooting scene
in the bar, a stagehand picked it up and used it in the next scene between
Brando and Saint. However, the stagehand
neglected to tell the cat’s owner, which caused a minor argument on the filming
set.
Johnny Seven
(John Anthony Fetto) played an uncredited longshoreman. He would go on to appear in over 600
Television shows, 26 movies, 2 Broadway shows and Off-Broadway Shows. He is best known from the TV series Ironside
(1967) in which he played the role of Lieutenant Carl Reese (1969-1975)
Abe Simon The role of Barney, a gangster, was played by
Abe Simon, a middleweight great who lost only 3 of 31 bouts (1948-1952) and
accidentally killed a fighter inside the ring with a single blow to the
head. Simon had been an advisor, along
with boxing great Willie Pep, on the film Requiem for a Heavyweight. Simon made two unsuccessfully challenges for
the Heavyweight Title and was the only Jew to fight for the title. On his first attempt, he was stopped by Joe
Louis in 13th round at Detroit's Olympia Stadium on March 21, 1941. In his second attempt on March 27, 1942, he
was stopped again by Louis, this time in six rounds at Madison Square Garden.
James Westerfield starred as Big Mac. A legendary character actor he would play
roles in over 50 films and 75 television programs during his career. However, his first love was the stage
OTHER
MEMBERS OF THE FILM AND DEVELOPMENT CREW
Howard Block
was an assistant camera operator (uncredited in the film) Waterfront was his
first film. He received a Life Time
Achievement Award (called a Cammy) in 1998.
Like so many others from the films crew, he also worked on The
Godfather.
Robert Hodes
was the script supervisor. Waterfront
was his first film. He continued to work
with Kazan throughout the remainder of his career.
Working with Boris Kaufman was Cinematographer
Jimmy Howe. With over 120 films to his credit, Wong is
still considered one of the greatest cinematographers in the history of motion
pictures. Born on August 28, 1899, in
Kwangtung, China, as James Wong (He was born Wong Tung Jim but was known as
Jimmy Howe during his stint at M-G-M he was given the middle name of
"Wong" by the publicity department to add an exotic flair.) grew up
in Washington State. He grew up with the
dream of becoming a professional boxer. As a teenager, he landed a job as a delivery
clerk for a commercial photographer, which, in 1917, led to an entry-level
position of cutting-room helper in a studio back lot. He became a slate-boy for Cecil B. DeMille
and who promoted him to assistant camera operator. By 1922, Howe was a full-fledged director of
photography. In 1949, Howe was brought
in to film (secretly) the screen test for Greta Garbo's proposed comeback film
La Duchesse de Langeais. Garbo demanded
the test be shot in Black and White, which was granted, but there is a
persistent rumor that Wong shot a second reel of the actor in color
anyway. Wong perfected experimental
techniques that became standard after his creative applications, especially for
deep focus and used hand-held cameras, which created a unique perspective for
the audience. In the boxing film Body
and Soul (1947), he put the cinematographer on roller skates, using a small,
hand-held camera to follow the action more intimately and dramatically. He was also a master of the artful use of
light and shadow and his innovative yet unobtrusive camera work.
He
would work with some of the biggest names in the business, from Victor Fleming
to John Frankenheimer. Called 'Low Key
Hoe' for his unassuming style, he pioneered the use of deep-focus photography
and of the hand-held camera. He was
nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Algiers, (1938) a film produced
by Walter Wanger, Schulberg’s former boss on Winter Carnival. Algiers starred Charles Boyer and Hedy
Lamarr. Followed by his 1955 win at the
Academy for The Rose Tattoo starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, a second
Academy Award for Hud (1963) Starring Paul Newman and a second nomination for
his final film Funny Girl starring Barbara Streisand
Anna Hill Johnstone was the wardrobe supervisor. She also later worked on the Godfather
films. Johnstone was actually a customer
designer by trade. Johnstone accompanied
Budd Schulberg to the play starring the unknown Eva Marie Saint.
George Justin
would be the Production Manager.
Waterfront was also his first film.
He went on to become Vice President Production Management for Paramount
Pictures, Executive Production Manager for Orion Pictures and Senior Vice
President Production Management.
Kazan’s Assistant director was Charles H. Maguire. Waterfront was also one of his first
films. Like most of the cast and crew
for Waterfront, Charlie Maguire became a Kazan regular. The director hired him again for A Face in
the Crowd and Baby Doll. Maguire began
his career in the film industry in the early 1950s while working as a prop man
in New York's Local 52. He traveled to
Hoboken, interviewed with Kazan for a job as property master, and ended up as
assistant director on the film. Tutored by director Robert Aldrich, he moved to
Los Angeles in the mid-'60s to find frequent work as a producer and assistant
director on such films as Fail-Safe (1964) and The Sand Peebles (1966). Maguire would work as a director or producer
on some of the best-known films of the twentieth century including Patriot
Games (1992) Shampoo (1975) The Parallax View, (1974) The Friends of Eddie
Coyle (1973) The Arrangement (1969) I Love You Alice B. Toklas! (1968) Splendor in the Grass (1961) and The
Hustler. He continued his collaborations
with Kazan until the end of their careers.
For his film editor, Kazan's chose of the best
in the business, Arthur Eugene Milford,
who had been working on his craft since 1926 and would span five decades of
work before he retired. Milford entered
silent films as a stuntman and title writer and graduated to an editor’s
position in 1926 with Two Can Play starring Clara Bow. He worked for Columbia Pictures, RKO and
Republic pictures, including several Capra films including Flight (1929),
Platinum Blonde (1931) and Lost Horizon (1937) for which he won the first of
two Oscars. During the Second World War,
he led the film editorial department for the Office of War Information. Afterwards, he worked for Atomic Energy
Commission's film editorial department as chief Editor before returning to
feature film work under Kazan. Milford
went on to edited Kazan's Baby Doll (1956), A Face in the Crowd (1957) Splendor
in the Grass (1961) Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966) and later worked on Inchon
(1982) a dud financed by South Korean investors.
Mary Roach
(Faye) was the hairstylist for the cast.
Waterfront was her first film.
Fred Ryle was
the makeup artist. He had been working
in films since 1928.
James
(Jimmy) Shield's was the films soundman.
Waterfront was his second film
Dale Tate
(Uncredited in the film) created the films titles. Tate also had an uncredited role in the film
classic The Attack of the 50-Foot Women.
Guy Thomajan
was the films Dialogue supervisor.
Thomajan was also an accomplished director and actor who had roles in
most of Kazan’s other films
Flo Transfield
was the films wardrobe mistress. She
continued to work with Kazan on most of his other films.
Sam Rheiner
was the films Assistant to the Producer (Sam Spiegel) Waterfront was his next to last film.
Arthur Steckler
was the Second Assistant Director.
Waterfront was his second film.
He also went on to work in several other Kazan films.
HERE IS AN EXCEPT FROM MY BOOK "THE
BOOK OF AMERICAN-JEWISH GANGSTERS"
(Max Zellner is a pen name, it was my
grandfather's born name. During World War 1 he changed it to the less German
sounding Paul Selner)
Cohen-Dragna
War:
Micky Cohen, born Cohen Meyer Harris Born September 4,1913 Brooklyn, New York.
Died July 29 1976. Mickey Cohen was an
affable, if slightly mentally unbalanced drug pusher in LA, by way of Chicago.
Jack Dragna represented the local LA Mafia, the so-called Micky Mouse Mob.
Originally from Brooklyn, the Cohen’s
moved to Los Angeles in 1920, where Micky’s father ran a drug store. At the
start of prohibition, Cohen’s older made gin in the back of the store at Micky,
at age 9, was the operations delivery boy until he was arrested.
Cohen turned to prize fighting in his
teen years and had a brief but respectable career before he landed in Chicago
and worked in the Capone organization at various odd jobs but was forced to
leave town after he took part in a gun battle that left several gamblers
dead.
Cleveland mobster Lou Rothkopf is said to
have taken a liking to Cohen, something that was easy to do, and sent him to
Los Angeles to work with Bugsy Siegel. When Siegel was murdered in 1947, Cohen
was granted most of the dead gangsters gambling operations around Los Angeles.
It was around this time that Cohen
supposedly Cohen introduced a hoodlum named Johnny Stompanato to troubled movie
starlet Lana Turner. Cohen then wired Stompanato’s bedroom and recorded the
actress and Stompanato having sex and then pressed two thousand copies of the
master recording and sold them $5 each. Turner’s daughter, Cheryl, later
stabbed Stompanato to death in a killing ruled to be justifiable homicide.
The essence of the Dragna-Cohen
war was control and power. Although Dragna was the unquestioned Mafia power
west of Las Vegas, he felt slighted within the ranks of the traditional mob
that moved in on Las Vegas without so much as a nod to him and generally
disrespected by freelance hoods like Mickey Cohen and Jack Whalen who ran their
bookie and narcotics operations.
Dragna and Cohen could not be more
different. Jack Dragna (He was born
Ignazio Dragna but renamed himself years later in LA) was born on April 18,
1891, in Corleone, Sicily and arrived in the United States as a child. He
returned to Sicily in 1908 and served a hitch in the Italian army. He then
travelled back to the US in 1914. Dragna is the suspected killer of Bernard
Baff, a hapless kosher chicken wholesaler in Brooklyn. There is a possibility that Dragna worked
with the New York mobs and the Capone operation at some point before venturing
out west. Over the years, he had convictions for attempted extortion (1915) and
served time in San Quinton prison. He was released in 1918 and never again
arrested for a serious offense.
Dragna, who lived at 3927 Hubert Avenue in
Los Angeles, took over the tiny LA outfit in 1931 after the boss, Joe Ardizonne
vanished in 1931. (He lived at 10949 North Mount Gleason Avenue) A shy and
retiring person, he avoided the limelight and the newspaper people. However, on
April 15, 1951, when the LA police began a harassment campaign against the
Mafia, the cops recorded Dragna having sex in his girlfriend’s trailer at 330
Mariposa Street in LA and arrested him (and her) for engaging in lewd acts by
consent (Oral sex)
Mickey Cohen, on the other hand, went out
of his way to bring attention to himself, especially the press, which generally
went lightly on him as a flashy, interesting character. Flashy, good humored
and outgoing, Cohen quickly became the overall public favorite in the short
lived, almost comical war with Dragna largely because Cohen understood the
fundamentals of public relations. When an elderly widow named Elsie Phillips
lost her house at 5631 Homeside Avenue in LA in a suit over an unpaid $8.00
radio repair bill, Cohen paid the lien judgment ($1,013.95) for her. Then his
men beat the radio repairman up.
The shooting started when Dragna demanded
a piece of the $40 per phone per week plus a general surcharge of $5.00 that
Cohen was charging bookie. Cohen refused. So on February 7, 1950, Dragna, planted a bomb under Cohen’s
home on 413 Moreno Blvd. in West Hollywood. (The same street where Jack Dragna
lived)
The bomb, which went off at 4:15 AM, left
a crater ten feet deep and broke every window in every house for 5,000 feet
around. The explosion was felt seven miles away. The problem was, for Dragna
anyway, was that his men had placed the bomb directly under a double laid
cement floor where Cohen kept his safe. Because of that, the bomb blasted
sideways instead of upwards. All that happened to Cohen was that the explosion
lifted him up out of his bed and threw him back down again. His wife, LaVonne,
their maid and the Cohen family dog were uninjured in the blast.
Members of the Sica gang were rounded up
and questioned in the bombing but released when no evidence could be found to
tie them to the case.
“I am completely in the dark as to who done
it” Cohen said and then added “And I ain’t no gangster” The newspapers reported
that Cohen was “almost put to tears” that his neighbors could have been hurt in
the blast. One neighbor responded “That’s very touching. What would be even
more touching is if Cohen moved away from here” The neighbors then declared the
Cohen “an intolerable nuisance” and demanded they leave the neighborhood. Cohen
sent out a three- page letter to each resident, begging their forgiveness and
asking that they reconsider.
Next, Dragna sent Sam Bruno to shot Cohen
to death. Bruno was said to be the best shot in the mob. One bright, beautiful
afternoon he hid behind a tree and fired a shotgun into Cohen's car as he drove
by. He fired another round and effectively killed the car but Cohen was
untouched. The bullets didn’t even come near him.
After that, mobster started saying, and
probably believing, that Cohen made a pack with the devil. In Las Vegas, they
were actually taking odds on how long it would take to kill him off and the
odds were in Micky Cohen’s favor. There were a number of failed attempts, all
of which Cohen survived, basically through dumb luck.
The Kefauver Committee caused Cohen to be
convicted of income tax evasion. He was sentenced to four years in federal
prison. In 1961, a separate indictment found him guilty of income tax evasion
in a second case. Sent to Alcatraz, Cohen was attacked by another inmate who
hit the aging gangster in the skull with a lead pipe, dramatically effecting
his motor skills.
“The guy” Cohen said “scrambled
my brains” He was released from prison in 1972 and died in his sleep four years
later.
ICONIC WRITERS
Ninety-five and going strong: the
cult of Charles Bukowski
Although he died in 1993, the
poet and writer is almost the perfect fit for the Internet and social reading.
Aditya Mani Jha
It’s hard to overthink what one
feels about Charles Bukowski, because the moment you are on the verge of doing
so, his grizzled, pock-marked ghost-face rebukes you: “If it doesn’t come
bursting out of you / in spite of everything / don’t do it.” This is exactly
the kind of urgent, irrepressible emotion that Bukowski provokes in his
readers.
A lot of writers are blessed with
a steady fan following; writers like Bukowski inspire a cult. He remains one of
the most quoted writers on social media despite the fact that he died in 1993,
much before the true impact of the Internet era kicked in.
One of the reasons behind’s
Bukowski’s posthumous celebrity is that he fits a certain writerly archetype:
the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, womanising man-about-town, a person as likely
to end up face down in the gutter, bruised and battered, as to write a poem
about the entire affair. Shortly after publishing his first short story in
1946, he went on a bender that lasted nearly ten years. His poor liver might
have thrown the towel in, but, as the story goes, Bukowski shooed away a priest
(who had come to preside over his last rites) and picked up the pieces of his
life.
He then went on to unleash his
literary alter-ego upon the world: Henry “Hank” Chinaski, the protagonist of
five of his six novels, including, most famously, Factotum (1975) and Ham on
Rye (1982). Ham on Rye is Bukowski’s retort to American coming-of-age novels
like Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the novel being parodied in the title.
William Golding wrote Lord of the
Flies as an elaborate, erudite spoof of R.M. Ballantyne’sCoral Island; it was
almost as if Golding was telling Ballantyne: “This is what would reallyhappen
if a bunch of so-called civilised British kids were to be marooned on an
island”. WithHam on Rye, Bukowski was telling Salinger: “This is what growing up
as an angry, confused and down-on-luck teenager feels like.”
His penchant for literal as well
as literary spats was well-known: yet another reason why he is adored in the
age of online voyeurism. On Writing, released earlier in August, is a
collection of letters written by Bukowski to friends and acquaintances. In
these remarkable documents, he misses no chance to slag off the rich, the
famous and the well-received among his colleagues and his predecessors.
Shakespeare is dismissed rather
summarily (“stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard”). William Burroughs’s
cutup technique, according to Bukowski, was “just (the) ghetto bored flip of a
safe and secure man.” Unsurprisingly, the writer he admired most was John Fante
(1909-83), the author of the novel Ask the Dust. Fante, like Bukowski himself,
was an autobiographical writer whose accounts of the California lowlife can be
considered a precursor to Ham on Rye and the rest of Bukowski’s oeuvre.
Most modern-day readers, though,
are reeled in by Bukowski’s poetry; he published more than 50 collections of
verse in all, a staggering output by any standards. Most of these poems were
published in small literary magazines and by indie presses; this built his
reputation as the definitive underground writer of his time.
His collaborations with Robert
Crumb, the godfather of the alternative “comix” movement were a confirmation of
the same: Crumb illustrated extracts from some of his novels to create one-shot
comicbooks, most of which are out of print today.
A typical Bukowski poem is
deceptively simple. The subjects are not too different from his prose, at least
at a superficial level: there is still plenty of alcohol, women and visits to
the racetrack. But Bukowski’s Zen-like punchiness and the inherent brevity of the
medium make his poems far more accessible and universal than his “hyperlocal”
California novels. His shorter poems, like What Can I Do, are an investigation
into (and a critique of) the artistic process.
it’s true:
pain and suffering
helps to create
what we call
art.
given the choice
I’d never choose
this damned
pain
and suffering
for myself
but somehow it finds
me
as the royalties
continue to roll on
in.
And therein lies the rub: just
like Hemingway’s style inspired an avalanche of wannabe-minimalist short
fiction (most of which was unreadable), Bukowski’s success has spawned a legion
of imitators who have swamped us with poorly written blank verse. Sadly, this
has meant that academic critics have largely ignored Bukowski’s body of work;
he is not and probably will never be a syllabus mainstay.
Personally speaking, what I
admire most about Bukowski’s writing is his ability to elevate commonplace
desolation to apocalyptic proportions. His wisdom was not the breeze in your
face; it was a punch to your gut. In the poem Tragedy of the Leaves, Bukowski
writes about the morning he had his final confrontation with his angry
landlady. The poem begins:
I awakened to dryness and the
ferns were dead,
the potted plants yellow as corn;
my woman was gone
and the empty bottles like bled
corpses
surrounded me with their
uselessness
The word “dryness” indicates that
he is out of booze and out of money, but also that in the absence of booze, he
is like a plant that hasn’t been watered for a while and is dying because of this.
The empty bottles are “bled corpses”; another tongue-in-cheek way of humanising
a drunkard’s boorish behaviour. But Bukowski is not interested in shying away
from his comeuppance: if he is a good-for-nothing alcoholic who cannot pay his
rent, that’s what he’ll own up to be. The last lines of the poem are memorable:
and I walked into a dark hall
where the landlady stood
execrating and final,
sending me to hell,
waving her fat, sweaty arms
and screaming
screaming for rent
because the world has failed us
both
If he had been alive, Bukowski
would have celebrated his 95th birthday earlier this month. Don’t imagine for a
moment, though, that this would have stopped him from throwing the first punch
in a barroom brawl.
HERE'S SOME NICE ART FOR YOU TO LOOK AT....ENJOY!
Emily Winfield Martin
Entering the Lemaire Channel, Antartica - Edward Seago
Fairfield Porter- Buttercups
Franz Kopallik
“If people knew how hard I
worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful. - Michelangelo”
THE ART OF WAR...............................
WHY DON'T WE HAVE THIS IN THE UNITED STATES?
Family violence leave for Vic
govt workers
The days of worrying about losing
wages or even jobs could soon be over for many public sector workers dealing
with family violence in Victoria.
Paid family violence leave for
men and women will be included in all new enterprise agreements for public
service workers.
Many workers delayed seeking help
for domestic violence because of fears of losing their jobs, or could be
financially disadvantaged for taking action, Prevention of Family Violence
Minister Fiona Richardson said.
"Family violence leave sends
a clear message to victims that they're supported in their workplace and do not
have to suffer in silence," she said on Monday.
The move comes after Victoria's
Royal Commission into Family Violence on Friday wrapped up four weeks of public
hearings detailing the devastating impact family violence had on children,
services and the community.
About 40 new enterprise
agreements to be negotiated in the next 18 months will include the new
entitlement.
Details about how many days can
be claimed have not been finalised but the ACTU is calling for 10 days.
Australian of the Year Rosie
Batty says 10 days would have made a big difference for her the year before her
son was murdered by his father in 2014.
About 25 per cent of workers
experienced domestic violence at some point of their life, the ACTU's
submission to the royal commission said.
It also heard family violence was
a major cause of homelessness and that many victims stayed in their homes with
their attackers because of fears of financial destitution.
Industrial Relations Minister
Natalie Hutchins said no industry was immune and she hoped the measure would
set an example for other employers.
She said an employee in her own
department had needed to take time off work to go to court and the police.
"I have watched her struggle
through that and I know that if you invest in your people and you be flexible
and supporting, that actually you retain that (person)," she said.
About 1.6 million Australian
workers can access family violence leave under schemes introduced by companies
including National Australia Bank and Ikea.
The Future of Work: Shorter
Hours, Higher Pay
The latest entry in a special
project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology
visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential
changes in the workplace.
DOROTHY SUE COBBLE
Most Americans work too much and
are paid too little. Reversing these trends is the most important thing we can
do to improve the lives of workers and their families today.
Dorothy Sue Cobble is
Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies at Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey.
Time and money are connected but
not in the way we often think. For all too long we’ve been trying to raise our
pay by lengthening our hours. In truth, we need to shorten our hours. Then and
only then will we be able to raise our pay.
Less work and more pay is not an
impossible dream. Many countries have made great progress toward its
realization. Indeed, countries with the least income inequality also have some
of the best time policies. A number of European nations mandate a month of paid
vacation every year and many have workweeks of under 35 hours; Canada just
expanded its paid parental leave to 54 weeks for new parents, putting it ahead
of the world norm of three months of paid leave; and even Japan, famous for
karōshi or death by overwork, is considering laws to require workers take paid
holidays.
But some say America is just
different. Our income inequality is among the world’s highest. The United
States, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Papua New Guinea are the only nations without
paid maternity leave. And as of 2015, 42 percent of U.S. employees have no paid
vacation at all.
But the truth is that America has
not always been an outlier when it comes to overwork and underpay. There’s a
long and vibrant American tradition of struggle for shorter hours and higher
pay and it got results. We lessened both time and income inequality a century
ago and we can do so again.
There have been two great
American shorter-time movements: the labor movement’s shorter-hours struggle
and the women’s movement fight for work-family balance. Both have much to teach
about why less work is essential to economic prosperity, democratic governance,
and individual happiness.
Let’s look first at the labor
movement. The bumper sticker is right: The American labor movement gave us the
weekend. It also helped give it to Europeans and others. Ending long hours was
the top demand of American workers in the 19th century. In 1886, a general
strike for the eight-hour day called by the American Federation of Labor
inspired similar movements throughout the industrializing world.
But the shorter-hours call was
not just for action; it was for a new economics. In the century leading up to
the New Deal, the American labor movement was an intellectual hotbed, the
center of some of the most creative economic thinking around. Shorter hours
solved the problem of overwork and underwork. “As long as there is one man who
seeks employment and can not obtain it, the hours of work are too long,” Sam
Gompers, president of the AFL, explained in 1887.
Shorter hours increased profits
and raised wages. Shorter hours meant greater productivity, more technological
investment, lower turnover costs, and less worker illness and job injury.
Employers could afford to pay workers more, and limiting the supply of work
time increased its value. American workers organized for shorter hours and
higher pay. They insisted that the real American work ethic—one that valued a
worker’s time and effort with fair pay—be honored in practice, not just in
rhetoric.
The political and moral case for
shorter hours was just as important as the economic. Without time for
education, reflection, and civic participation, the American experiment in
representative democracy was doomed. Shorter hours, the American labor movement
claimed, made us better citizens, better family members, and better people.
This first great movement for
shorter hours negotiated agreements with employers allowing workers more
control over when and how much they worked. It passed living-wage ordinances
and fair-hour laws in states and municipalities across the country. It helped
secure the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, the first federal law setting minimum
wages and maximum hours for men and women.
After the 1930s, the labor
movement shifted its focus from a shorter workday to a shorter work year and a
shorter work life. At mid-century, big labor negotiated what Walter Reuther,
the visionary head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, called “lumps
of leisure”: paid vacations (an unheard-of benefit for blue-collar workers),
paid holidays or the three-day weekend, and retirement (a new idea!) paid by
Social Security and company benefits.
The second shorter-time movement
is what I call the other women’s movement. A century ago, American feminists
donned their white dresses and, with American flags fluttering, marched in
massive suffrage parades in cities large and small. They also took to the
streets and to the ballot box to end overwork and underpay. This second
movement, like the first, believed shorter hours raised pay, created more jobs,
and preserved American democracy. But they also wanted to end women’s “double
day,” or long hours at home and on the job. They sought more choice in where
they spent their work time and they insisted that family work was as important
as market work.
They led the fight for
work-family balance before we even had a name for it: they changed public
opinion, laws, and employer practice, gaining job-protected leave during
childbirth and childrearing, restrictions on involuntary overtime, and more
flexibility in work time and place. Time and money were connected, they argued,
and leaves must be paid for most women to benefit.
Raising women’s wages was an
integral part of their work-family agenda. They helped extend minimum-wage
protections to the majority of women, including domestic, retail, and service
workers. Beginning in 1945 and for the next 18 years, they introduced “equal
pay for comparable work” legislation. In 1963, John F. Kennedy signed the Equal
Pay Act, a law they hoped would be the first step toward ending sex-based wage
discrimination.
Today, the struggle against
overwork and underpay is gaining ground. Laws mandating paid family leave have
been secured in California, New Jersey, and other states. Campaigns for paid
sick leave are succeeding. The Fight for Fifteen and other efforts to raise
wages are making a difference and show no sign of waning.
What’s crucial is to connect
these efforts and to understand them as part of a long American history of
successful struggle for shorter hours and higher pay.
A few months ago, my Rutgers
undergraduates and I met for one of our last classroom discussions of the
semester. Many of my students hold multiple jobs even as they attend school full
time. As I’ve done many times, I assigned readings on overwork and the history
of American shorter-time movements. It was late in the semester, late in the
afternoon, and very hot. For the first time in many years, the importance of
the topic needed no explanation. They raised their tired heads off their desks
and began talking animatedly.
For the Future of Work, a special
project from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford University, business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology
visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential
changes in the workplace, and what anxieties and possibilities they might
produce.
Take action to find happiness: An
Experiment in Happiness
Troy Galyon
As I settle into the new school year
and get accustomed to the new schedule, I cannot help but think about the few
short months ago when summer was just beginning.
As I’m sure many other students
around campus are doing, I’m reminiscing on those passing moments of joy spent
with friends as we traveled or the fond memories of being free of all
obligations and doing anything and everything my heart desired.
Yet, while the thoughts of summer are
a fun getaway in our minds from the daily routine of school, there is so much
more that we could be doing to improve our happiness here on campus besides
just pining for summer. Instead of dreading classes and complaining about our
schedules, why don’t we do something about it?
I have discovered that this outlook
changes everything.
Life does not stop and start at
summer or at the weekend. Life happens each day. We do not need some excuse to
live life or to seek adventure or happiness. Why does the day of the week make
a difference in our choices, freedoms and thoughts?
During the summer, many people don’t
even keep track of days, and they live each day to the fullest. School comes,
and they dread every day that is not a holiday. I say continue that summer
trend and live each day to the fullest.
Happiness will not come to us. We
have to create our own happiness.
There is happiness in change as well.
This school year brings with it new opportunities and challenges which we will
undoubtedly grow from. This semester will affect us all as much if not more
than the summer did.
New relationships will be formed and
new friendships will be made. If we all sit around thinking about how hard our
classes are or how boring our morning lecture is, we are not creating happiness
for ourselves, but instead inhibiting happiness from growing at all.
Take a different approach to school
if you, like so many students that go to class just because they feel like they
have to, complain every day about how much you hate this or that about a class.
Attempt to live each day as happy as you can be.
Instead of thinking about how bad
class and school are every day, think about how great it is to see friends,
work towards an esteemed end-goal and grow and change into the adult that you
want yourself to be.
Embrace change. Love life. Be happy.
We need to change the way we see the
world. We need to see it through a lens of acceptance for everyone and
happiness with everyone around us and within ourselves. Try happiness. I
challenge you to try happiness just for one day. When you begin to complain
about a certain aspect of life, rethink your position and say something that
you are happy about with your life.
Imagine the change at UT that would
occur if every student and faculty member adopted a new, happier outlook on
life. Help others to be happier, and you will be happier in turn. Let us live
on a campus of people making devoted to making others happy.
This column is designed to make you
think differently about life by living happier and helping others live happier
as well. When we help each other, both parties — the helped and the helper — go
away feeling better about themselves and one another.
If we could all be this way and
create a chain reaction of people helping one another, not only this campus but
the world could be turned into a better place full of caring individuals that
make up an incredibly loving human race.
Troy Galyon is a junior in supply
chain management. He can be reached at tgalyon2@vols.utk.edu.
BAIL OR JAIL: POOR CHOICE
By Will Brunch
MY DAILY NEWS colleague Helen
Ubiñas has done an outstanding job in her last couple of columns - contrasting
the Great Papal Panic of '15 with Philadelphia's seeming acquiescence to high
levels of gun violence and poverty. "Go rogue, pontiff," she wrote
last Tuesday. "Throw caution and schedules to the wind and head to one of
the city neighborhoods hardest hit by poverty and crime."
I agree - yet I'd also note that
Pope Francis already has a pretty bold schedule. He is, after all, going to
jail - the city's Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, to be exact. Visiting
prisoners and offering them hope is part of the pope's shtick, to use a mixed
metaphor. Just last month, Francis visited one of the world's most overcrowded
correctional facilities, in Bolivia, and told inmates "we should not think
that everything is lost."
When he comes to Philly, I wonder
if the pontiff will acknowledge this: In any American city or county lockup,
many prisoners shouldn't even be there - victims of a flawed system that locks
people up for months who've been convicted of no crime, yet simply are too poor
to post bail.
This Sunday, the New York Times
Magazine ran a remarkable expose called "The Bail Trap." It notes
that President Obama's admirable push to reform the federal criminal justice
system - much of it rolled out this summer in Philadelphia in a speech to the
NAACP - will only make a dent on the problem. That's because of the 2.2 million
Americans now behind bars, fewer than 10 percent are held in a federal
facility.
The bulk of the inmates are in
state prisons, and a substantial portion also sit in county or municipal
lockups like Philly's Curran-Fromhold. The Times notes that in these local
jails, some six out of 10 haven't been convicted of anything yet and - in the
cherished tenet of American criminal justice - remain innocent until proven
guilty.
Notes the article: "Some of
these inmates are being held because they're considered dangerous or unlikely
to return to court for their hearings. But many of them simply cannot afford to
pay the bail that has been set."
It noted that reform efforts are
underway in New York, including a pilot program in which its city council set
aside $1.4 million for low-level offenders. That, in turn, was inspired by a
program established in 2007 called the Bronx Freedom Fund that used nonprofit
dollars to bail out low-income people charged with nonviolent crimes. The
program was killed in a somewhat ridiculous legal challenge, but what was
learned - as reported by the Times - is simply mind-blowing:
"Ninety-six percent of the
fund's clients made it to every one of their court appearances, a return rate
higher even than that of people who posted their own bail. More than half of
the Freedom Fund's clients, now able to fight their cases outside jail, saw
their charges completely dismissed. Not a single client went to jail on the
charges for which bail had been posted. By comparison, defendants held on bail
for the duration of their cases were convicted 92 percent of the time. The
numbers showed what everyone familiar with the system already knew anecdotally:
Bail makes poor people who would otherwise win their cases plead guilty."
In Philadelphia, as attorney
Christopher Markos wrote in the Daily News, Pope Francis at Curran-Fromhold
"will see a massively overcrowded, understaffed facility and learn that a
significant majority of the inmates suffering the intolerable conditions there
are pretrial detainees - convicted of no crime, but jailed only because they
are not able to afford bail."
In fact, as many as 75 percent of
the roughly 8,000 people in the Philadelphia prison system are awaiting trial,
most unable to afford bail.
There is hope of fixing the
system here in the City of Brotherly Love - just not in time for the papal
visit. Democratic mayoral nominee Jim Kenney is having something of a cruel
summer as he presumptively waits for his swearing-in. The highlight of his
off-season, however, came when he signaled in July that he's open to a reform
of the bail system along the lines of what New York City is doing.
The roadblock to real reform has
always been fear that a suspect awaiting trial will commit a heinous crime.
True, but then if we jailed all of Philadelphia's 1.5 million citizens, we
could get the murder rate down to zero, right? Providing alternatives to bail
for people charged with nonviolent crimes wouldn't just be a humane thing to do
- keeping folks employed and housed and keeping their families together - but
it would save the city millions of dollars in new jail construction. The
obstacle is that not just Kenney but also District Attorney Seth Williams and
other key officials need to get on board.
I'm sure Pope Francis would give
them his blessing.
A quarter of new moms return to
work 2 weeks after childbirth
JOHN SMIERCIAK / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
In the United States, nearly a
quarter of employed mothers return to work within two weeks of giving birth,
according to a new report from In These Times, a nonprofit magazine, which
analyzed data from the Department of Labor and collected stories from mothers
who kept working through pain and grief.
It's not because they recover at
a supernatural pace. Or because they value their jobs over their babies.
Some simply can't afford the pay
cut. Buying groceries for many American women trumps resting for as long as the
doctor advises. So they go back to the office — even if the C-section cuts
haven't yet healed or a premature baby remains in the hospital.
National data points to a
probable culprit: Only 13 percent of workers in the U.S. have access to any
paid leave, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Forty percent of U.S.
households with children under 18, meanwhile, rely heavily on a mother's
income, Pew data shows.
A 2012 survey commissioned by the
Department of Labor polled all workers who had taken family or medical leave.
In These Times dug into the data further to learn what happened to new moms.
They found 23 percent of women who had left work to care for an infant took
less than two weeks off.
Less educated workers appeared to
have it much worse: Eighty percent of college graduates took at least six weeks
off to care for a new baby, and only 54 percent of women without degrees did
so.
And about 43 million American
workers have no paid sick leave, or time off for parents to care for sick kids.
Access depends on occupation. Those with the highest salaries often enjoy the
most generous benefits: 88-percent of private sector managers and financial
workers enjoy paid time off, more than double the rate among service workers
(40-percent) and construction workers (38-percent).
One mother interviewed by
investigative reporter Sharon Lerner fell through the cracks of the Family
Medical Leave Act, which guarantees at least 12 weeks of unpaid leave to 1) new
parents at companies with more than 50 employees and 2) who have worked there
for at least a year.
The woman, a counselor at a small
college with a master's degree, saved up vacation days and purchased disability
insurance to prepare for two months with no income. She tried to time her baby
to qualify for job-protected leave. As the story describes:
She had started her job in
February 2014, which meant that she wouldn't qualify until the following
February. She counted back nine months from then and got to May, but then, to
be safe, tacked on another two months in case the baby came early, so: July.
That's when she and Rachid would start trying for a second.
But the woman went into premature
labor, which wrecked her plan. According to the story, she gave birth by
C-section on Christmas Eve, too soon to qualify for leave or support from
disability insurance. She returned to work two weeks later, Lerner reported,
worrying about her son, who remained under medical supervision.
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
THE BOOK OF FUNNY, ODD AND INTERESTING THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY
Compiled by
John William Tuohy
Great Outdoors
Questions
asked of Park Rangers at The Everglades National Park:
"Are
the alligators real?"
"Are
the baby alligators for sale?"
"Where
are the rides?"
"What
time does the two o'clock bus leave?"
Grand
Canyon National Park:
"Was
this man-made?"
"Do
you light it up at night?"
"I
bought tickets for the elevator to the bottom -- where is it?"
"Is
the mule train air conditioned?"
"So
where are the faces of the presidents?"
"So
is that Canada over there?"
Denali
National Park:
"What
time to you feed the bears?"
"What's
so wonderful about Wonder Lake?"
"Can
you show me where the Yeti lives?"
"How
often do you mow the tundra?"
Mesa
Verde National Park:
"Did
people build this, or did Indians?"
"Why
did they build the ruins so close to the road?"
"Do
you know of any undiscovered ruins?"
"Why
did the Indians decide to live in Colorado?"
Yellowstone
National Park:
"Does
Old Faithful erupt at night?"
"Do
you put the animals away at night?"
"How
do you turn it on?"
"When
does the guy who turns it on get to sleep?"
Carlsbad
Caverns National Park:
"How
much of the cave is underground?"
"So
what's in the unexplored part of the cave?"
"Does
it ever rain in here?"
"So
what is this -- just a hole in the ground?"
Yosemite
National Park:
"Where
are the cages for the animals?"
"What
time of year do you turn on Yosemite Falls?"
"What
happened to the other half of Half Dome?"
"Can
I get a picture taken with the carving of President Clinton?"
Banff
National Park:
"Is
that food coloring in the lakes?"
"When
did you build the glaciers?"
"How
much for a moose?"
"Where
are the igloos?"
"How
do the elk know they're supposed to cross at the Elk Crossing signs?"
"At
what elevation does an elk become a moose?"
"Are
the bears with collars tame?"
"Is
there anywhere I can see the bears pose?"
"Is
it ok to keep an open bag of bacon on the picnic table, or should I store it in
my tent?"
"Where
can I find Alpine Flamingos?"
"Where
does Alberta end and Canada begin?"
"How
far is Banff from Canada?"
"What's
the best way to see Canada in a day?"
"When
we enter British Columbia, do we have to convert our money to British
pounds?"
"Where
can I buy a raccoon hat? All Canadians own one, don't they?"
"Are
there phones in Banff?"
"So
it's eight kilometers away. Is that in miles?"
"We're
on the decibel system, you know."
"Is
that two kilometers by foot or by car?"
"Did
I miss the turnoff for Canada?"
"Do
you have a map of the State of Jasper?"
"Is
this the part of Canada that speaks French, or is that Saskatchewan?"
"If
I go to British Columbia, do I have to go through Ontario?"
"Do
they search you at the British Columbia border?"
"Are
there birds in Canada?"
"I
saw an animal on the way to Banff today. Could you tell me what it was?"
Glacier
National Park:
"When
do the deer become elk?"
“When
do the glaciers go by?"
Isle
Royale National Park:
"I
just saw the ugliest horse I've ever seen." -- After seeing a moose.
Sutter's
Fort State Historic Park, Sacramento
"Where
are the tracks the wagon trains ran on?"
Forest
Service Feedback
Escalators
would help on steep uphill sections."
"A
small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. Is there a way I can
get reimbursed? Please call."
"Instead
of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide
population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness."
"Trails
need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands."
"Ban
walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to
chase animals."
"All
the mile markers are missing this year."
"Found
a smoldering cigarette left by a horse."
"Trails
need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill."
"Too
many bugs and leeches and spiders and spider webs. Please spray the wilderness
to rid the area of these pests."
"Please
pave the trails so they can be plowed of snow in the winter."
"Chairlifts
need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having
to hike to them."
"The
coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate
these annoying animals."
"Reflectors
need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with
flashlights."
"A
McDonald's would be nice at the trailhead."
"The
places where trails do not exist are not well marked."
"Too
many rocks in the mountains."
"Need
more signs to keep area pristine."
BLOGLAPEDIA’S
BLOGS
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
for the blog of it
http://architecturefortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
THE ARTS
Art
for the Blog of It
http://artfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Art
for the Pop of it
http://artforthepopofit.blogspot.com/
Photography
for the blog of it
http://photographyfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Music
for the Blog of it
http://musicfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
Art (Photographic arts)
http://albumartsocheesyitsgood.blogspot.com/
Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the
Foster Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
HEALTH
Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
http://mevsdiabetes-bloglapedia.blogspot.com/
HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
http://whateveryoudodontlaugh.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A Big
Blog of Irish Literature
http://abigblogofirishliterature.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
Blogable Robert Frost
http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
http://holdencaulfieldblogspot.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
FROM LLR BOOKS. COM
Litchfield Literary Books. A really small company run by
writers.
AMERICAN HISTORY
The Day Nixon
Met Elvis
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Nixon-Met-elvis/
Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Letters-Children-1903-1918/dp/
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND CIVILIZATIONS
The Works
of Horace
Paperback 174 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Horace-Richard-Willoughby/
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Epictetus-Golden-Sayings
Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
Paperback 420 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quo-Vadis-Narrative-Time-Nero
CHILDRENS
BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young children. By consent of the author,
this play may be performed, at no charge, by educational institutions,
neighborhood organizations and other not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an American treasure and this
little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens to be very small, by
pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the pumpkin patch on
Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance to prove that just
because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here is the point that I
found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size doesn't matter when it
comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I think children need to
hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is a ongoing lesson isn't
it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
http://www.amazon.com/OLANTERN-PORCHLESS-PUMPKIN-Halloween-Children
BOOKS
ON FOSTER CARE
It's Not
All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the books
contents
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Foster-Kid-no-matter-what
From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age seven through seventeen, in
foster care. Over the course of those
ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and concerned people told me, "It's
okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good people meant to encourage me,
and I appreciated their kindness then, and all these many decades later, I
still appreciate their good intentions. But as I was tossed around the foster
care system, it began to dawn on me that they were wrong. It was not all right to be a foster kid.
During my time in the system, I was bounced every eighteen
months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a boy's school and to a group
home before I left on my own accord at age seventeen.
In the course of my stay in foster care, I was severely beaten
in two homes by my "care givers" and separated from my four siblings
who were also in care, sometimes only blocks away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to wait to age out, although the
effects of leaving the system without any family, means, or safety net of any
kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived in poverty for the first part
of my life, dropped out of high school, and had continuous problems with the
law.
Today, almost nothing
about foster care has changed. Exactly
what happened to me is happening to some other child, somewhere in America,
right now. The system, corrupt, bloated,
and inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a system that was originally a
compassionate social policy built to improve lives but is now a definitive
cause in ruining lives. Due to gross
negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what the foster care system
builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care has become our epic
national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have lived through it.
Yet there is a suspicion among some Americans that foster care
costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and is at odds with a satisfying
life. Others see foster care as a part
of the welfare system, as legal plunder of the public treasuries.
None of that is true;
in fact, all that sort of thinking does is to blame the victims. There is not a single child in the system who
wants to be there or asked to be there.
Foster kids are in foster care because they had nowhere else to go. It's that simple. And believe me, if those kids could get out
of the system and be reunited with their parents and lead normal, healthy
lives, they would. And if foster care is a sort of legal plunder of the public
treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are doing the plundering.
We need to end this
needless suffering. We need to end it
because it is morally and ethically wrong and because the generations to come
will not judge us on the might of our armed forces or our technological
advancements or on our fabulous wealth.
Rather, they will judge
us, I am certain, on our compassion for those who are friendless, on our
decency to those who have nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to
make our nation and our world a better place.
And if we cannot accomplish those things in the short time allotted to
us, then let them say of us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of foster care and here's how to do
it. We have created this book so that
almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to the world. You have the power to improve the lives of
those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people,
as good, decent and generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster
care, in their name and with their money, they would stop it. But, generally speaking, although the public
has a vague notion that foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete
picture. They are not aware of the human, economic and social cost that the
mismanagement of the foster care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in this work, you can help to
change all of that. You can make a
difference. You can change things for
the better.
We can always change the future for a foster kid; to make it
better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up (or tweet out) because it's
your country. Don't depend on the
"The other guy" to speak up for these kids, because you are the other
guy.
We cannot build a future for foster children, but we can build
foster children for the future and the time to start that change is today.
No time
to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
Paperbook 440 Books
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir
BOOKS ABOUT FILM
On the
Waterfront: The Making of a Great American Film
Paperback: 416 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Making-Great-American-Film/
BOOKS ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Elliott-ODonell
HUMOR BOOKS
The Book
of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
http://www.amazon.com/book-funny-interesting-things-people
The Wee
Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS ABOUT THE 1960s
You Don’t
Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The Wee
Book of Irish Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The Wee
Book of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A Reading
Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The Book
of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets and
Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The Life
of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What they
Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago
Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The Mob
Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The Mob
Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The Life
and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las
Vegas Organized Crime
The Mob
in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files
Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The Life
and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The Mob,
Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The Bioff
Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The New
York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The New
York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The Russian
Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The
Threat of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized
Crime/General
Best of
Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best of
Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The Mob
across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The US
Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The Mob
Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The Book
of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The Mob
and the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The Last
Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four More
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High and
Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Fishbowling-Last-Words-Dutch-Schultz-ebook/
American
Shakespeare: August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The Seven
Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT OF
CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Informal-History-Fairfax-Police/
McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-Virginia-Short-Informal-History/
THE QUOTABLE SERIES
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Emerson-lessons-quotes
The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-John-F-Kennedy/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The
Quotable Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The words
of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet, and writer was born on January
6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in what was then part of Ottoman
Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In 1895, the family immigrated
to the United States when Kahlil was a young man and settled in South Boston.
Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a member of the avant-garde
community and became especially close to Boston artist, photographer, and publisher
Fred Holland Day who encouraged and supported Gibran’s creative projects. An
accomplished artist in drawing and watercolor, Kahlil attended art school in
Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a symbolist and romantic style. He held his
first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Day's studio. It was
at this exhibition, that Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who ten years his
senior. The two formed an important friendship and love affair that lasted the
rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell influenced every aspect of Gibran’s
personal life and career. She became his editor when he began to write and
ushered his first book into publication in 1918, The Madman, a slim volume of
aphorisms and parables written in biblical cadence somewhere between poetry and
prose. Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931, at the age of 48 from
cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Kahlil-Gibran-artwork/
The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The Art
of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The Quotable
Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Groucho-Marx-Devon-Alexander