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Unlike those who give way to the depressions of unwanted retirement, Goodwin has found an outlet for some of his energies in his very anger. He has turned his white-shingled home in Lexington, ten miles from his old office in Boston, into a headquarters for his campaign to improve the care of the aged in his community. His initial target was Lexington's Golden Age Club, which Goodwin felt was not concerned with the aged poor, many of whom were forced to live on welfare. Goodwin helped found a rival organization, the Council on Aging, which obtained...
...Things are improving because old people are fighting I for their rights," says Goodwin, "I make too much noise to be forgotten." Nonetheless, he is far from satisfied...
...pension plus Social Security, he no longer is eligible for benefits he had in his old job, such as housing and car allowances and health insurance. He sees rising property taxes as a constant menace to old people trying to cling to the comfort-and memories -of their homes. Goodwin pays $1,500 taxes a year on his house and half-acre lot, which he bought 17 years ago for $22,500. "The city is spending thousands of dollars on conservation lands because it doesn't want Lexington to change," he says, "but it is forcing the elderly...
When not campaigning, Goodwin keeps busy cleaning up the damage done his trees by a freak blizzard last...
...Shirley Goodwin is raising hell from retirement...