Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pastures' edge that produced pesticides and insecticides. Then in ( 1982 the EPA ranked the land near the top on its national list of high- priority hazardous-waste sites. The following year the town government forced the plant to close. "Two years ago I thought it was over," says Leah Abbott, one of the homemakers in Holbrook (pop. 11,140) who has found herself transformed into an environmental activist...
...owned the house next door were stricken by cancer," she says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims' homes. After Leah Abbott learned of the poison, she became an amateur epidemiologist too, putting dots on a map of Holbrook, drawing up her own geography of death...
...people are not panicking. Says O'Donnell: "Most of them have no interest whatsoever. I know people who have health problems, and even they refuse to get involved." Many seem troubled less by threats to health than by threats to property values. Especially since O'Donnell, Ross and Abbott formed a group called People United to Restore the Environment, the women have been attacked as kooks and cranks...
...Abbott is hardly a rabble-rouser. Says she: "I'm real Suzy Homemaker--Cub Scouts, baseball, sewing." In the living room a pair of Cabbage Patch dolls sit in a rocker, and a crucifix is on the mantle. The big, office-style water cooler is the one unorthodox fixture. Nodding in the direction of her daughter, she jokes, "When she's bad, she gets tap water...
...Berenice Abbott: Vision of the Twentieth Century: MIT Museum Building, 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Weekdays: 9--5, Saturdays: 10--4, through...