If you are not registered to vote, and exercising the right to vote on election day you are missing out on your most direct chance at influencing the politicians. Back In "Eastie" Back when I was working in "Eastie" the local politician who represented that ward on the city council had a James Micheal Curly …
All local
As an applied anthropologist, I could be a hero to the people in the local area that I served. My job was to document and preserve, but also to present. The program part probably had no long-term effect. But in a multi-ethnic neighborhood that was literally on the other side of the tracks, it made …
Politics and Mrs. Schultz
My third-grade teachers are responsible. If not for them, I'd have grown into an even worse lout than I am. Mrs. Kresge brought me into the wide world of literacy when other teachers had failed. Mrs. Schultz offered the first and enduring lessons about politics. Not too shabby for third grade. Today's lesson, though, is …
Get Out The Vote
When I was working as a practicing anthropologist years ago, I ran into an older gentleman who'd been a ward heeler in Boston's old West End- before urban renewal cleared it for parking lots and other municipal fripperies.

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