Springfield Before the showing of “The Organizer,” the organizers of the screening and Q&A has put together a small dinner for some of the professors and their star students. As people put away their plates, Rick Paar, a Springfield College psychology professor, said that since I was there he wanted to tell the story of …
Remembering Springfield Years Later
Springfield I haven’t been back in Springfield, Massachusetts since 2009. Driving from the airport in Hartford, nothing looked that different at 1 AM in the morning, but that’s pretty faint praise. The Basketball Hall of Fame is prominently located along the expressway. Mass Mutual Insurance company is still large enough to have its old highway …
Answering the Hard Questions about Movements and Organizations
New Orleans In Lafayette, Louisiana after the screening of the documentary, “The Organizer,” a question was phrased differently than I heard in New Orleans or Woodstock, New York, when I fielded questions after people watched the movie, but despite the sentence construction, the sentiment was much the same. A woman asked, given the excitement and …