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...something to be proud of," says Ron Weisen, whose United Steelworkers of America Local 1397 in Homestead, Pa., was one of the first organizations to receive a Springsteen contribution, almost a year ago. "He worries about the underfed and the underprivileged." Says Robert Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America: "We would not exist if it were not for Bruce Springsteen." Back in 1981, when, as Muller says, "nobody wanted to hear about the Viet Nam War," a Springsteen concert raised about $100,000 for the V.V.A. "That was the beginning of Bruce's political involvement," Muller thinks...
Down a dirt road, amid rolling hills of alfalfa, Larry and Madonna Sorell's 40-acre spread looks, smells and sounds like any other Kansas homestead. The weathered wooden farmhouse. The whiff of manure. The cacophony of grunting, gobbling and bleating. But the livestock at Lazy S Farms are no ordinary farm animals. Rooting about in the fields are Red Wattle pigs, a breed thought to have been imported from New Caledonia in the 1700s and practically extinct until a wild herd surfaced in Texas. The turkeys are Standard American Bronzes, which were Thanksgiving fare for more than a century...
...cruelties exchanged among a grindingly poor rural family. Slaughtering their animals has inured them to violence. Sharing the isolation of farm life has made them eager to sneak off. Knowing one another's sore spots has only rendered their aim more deadly. The plot resembles the save-the-homestead movies released last year: the farm is hopelessly insolvent but is sought by developers. Shepard, however, does not indulge in sentiment about vanishing ways of life. His focus is on familial stealth and cunning, on betrayals of husband by wife, brother by sister, parent by child. In the end, none...
...issue is not one of invention or hyperbole, of motive or execution, but rather one of focus. The country of memory Lelyveld establishes in “Omaha Blues” feels like a homestead awarded him by chance, a claim better left unworked in favor of more fruitful ventures. His experience reporting overseas would seem to be rich territory upon which to build a memoir, but those are not the years and the events he chooses to survey in this text...
...Williams hopes jobs created by the building of a new stadium will also help boost community support. The city has, at least, a historic love of the game. Black fans in the '20s, though forced into segregated stands, turned out in droves for the Senators, and later for the Homestead Grays, who won eight Negro National League titles in nine years from 1937 to 1945--which led many fans to lobby to name the new team the Grays. Says Williams: "I'm hoping we can still find a way to celebrate the forgotten tradition of baseball in D.C." --By Jeninne...