Portions, Chapter 12: The Human Affairs Program

Portions, Chapter 12: The Human Affairs Program

The Human Affairs Program began in 1969. Its mission was to combine active learning and concrete involvement with poor and working people in New York’s Southern Tier region. According to the job announcement I responded to, the program “emphasizes three goals:...
Portions, Chapter 13: Going to the USSR

Portions, Chapter 13: Going to the USSR

Organizers against a large power line coming through northern New York and heading to New York City used to meet at a large home in Holland Patten, a small town north of Utica. I went there to play poker, just as I was getting ready to make my trip to the USSR in...
Portions: The Rest of the Story

Portions: The Rest of the Story

I met Bethany K. Weidner in Washington, D.C about a year after returning from the Soviet Union. She was working as a speech writer for US Senator George McGovern and, more importantly, she knew Wenatchee was the Apple Capital of the World. We fell in love, got married...