White Collar Hippie

Continued from Part I: From an article in the Omaha World Herald. P ublished May 8, 2005: “South 24th Street was dying. Where elbow-to-elbow throngs once bustled  through department stores, furniture showrooms, shoe shops, bakeries and bars, more than half the storefronts along 24th Street from L to Q Streets were vacant by the mid-1980s.” https://www.omaha.com/townnews/commerce/th-street-gets-back-up-on-its-fee t/article_1aadefd2-8a85-11e6-81ac-fff9046507f6.html This image (below) was taken by me on 27th of September, 2019. T his building sits across the street from my art studio in Amesbury, Massachusetts. It reminds me of the building in the previous image of my father at 24th and Q Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska - his picture taken in 1970. The picture I took however, is the site of what was historically an industrious carriage factory located in what is named Carriage Hill, Amesbury, Massachusetts. A place where most of the world's finest horse-drawn carriages ...

Opening Windows to the Present. Joining Together thru Mystery of the Past By Ellen 'Asia ' Scudder, MLS. This story begins with an article I resisted reading for over 5 years It is an article my brother handed out copies of, to myself and our 4 other siblings, after our father’s death. That is, as we sorted through family memorabilia and other items in his soon-to-be empty Omaha apartment/   The article my brother Steven handed out is titled, “The White-Collar Hippie” and it appeared in a rag The Man’s Sun in August 1970 with a quote from my Dad as a tagline,  “I decided that making money was not all there was to practicing law .. The best reformer is one who reforms himself.”  It is a story about my father who apparently was standing before a court arguing for a buffer zone, a parkway, between a new development that abutted a low-income housing district. He planned to argue for a park to host a myriad of activities and included a clean-up ...