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Imagining Ethel

Mar 9, 2023Alice LoweSummer 2022, Summer 2022 NonfictionAlice Lowe, Essay

by Alice Lowe 1. Lena Gart was born on September 14, 1915. Esther Ethel Greenglass was born exactly two weeks later, on September 28. Both were daughters of early 20th-century Jewish immigrants, both of their mothers from Galicia, then a Polish/Russian border region now part of Ukraine. One raised in New York’s Lower East Side,

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Catalogue of Things Buried in Your Neighbors’ Yard

Mar 9, 2023Peter SoucySummer 2022, Summer 2022 NonfictionEssay, Peter Soucy

by Peter Soucy I. purple swing Early visits to Ian and Cullen’s included lifting up pieces of their bluestone walkway to look for stashes of red-backed and blue-spotted salamanders. Your mom never let your brother and you get a dog, so reptiles and amphibians were the only living things you liked to touch. Their slime

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Are We Artists? Or Fundraisers?

Mar 9, 2023Christopher Hirschmann BrandtSummer 2022, Summer 2022 NonfictionChristopher Hirschmann Brandt, Essay

by Christopher Hirschmann Brandt Since I began working with Medicine Show Theatre, and ever more since the deaths of the company’s two founders in 2003 and 2015, the job that has brought me the greatest amount of tzuris is writing grant applications. I can’t say that’s taken the most time, since building sets, maintaining the

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