Tag: Vol. 18 No. 46

To the editors: This is in response to your article “The Selling of Forest Beach” dealing with the sale of a camp by the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago [August 11]. There is always the danger when a publication uses free-lance submissions that a local issue will receive more attention than it merits, and particularly when […]

To the editors: Thanks for your article on John Healey, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA [Our Town, August 11]. We would like to acknowledge Joel Lederer, the young photographer responsible for the photos accompanying Dan Liberty’s article. Thanks also to everyone who called or wrote to the governor of Louisiana on behalf of Ronald […]

To the editors: The story of Forest Beach and the Y.W.C.A. [August 11] bitterly reminds me of what happened to Camp Martin Johnson in the 70’s. That camp and land, which belonged to the Chicago Y.M.C.A., was in northern Michigan and had been donated by Martin Johnson in the 20’s. Johnson was a bachelor who […]

To the editors: I appreciate Peter Friederici’s admiring review of Robert Del Tredici’s book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb (August 4, 1989). The Progressive has published Del Tredici’s photographs, and shares your reviewer’s admiration for his work. However, I regret Friederici’s careless reference to Howard Morland’s “article on how to build a […]

To the editors: What’s a decade, give or take, among friends? Those albums I mentioned in my review of Gatemouth Brown [August 18], on which Gate showcased his abilities in a wide variety of musical styles on French and Japanese labels, were done in the 1970s, not the 1980s as my article stated. Most of […]