Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mall, a small park in a residential neighborhood, is full of Harvard history. It is located at the site of the meeting house where John Harvard preached and on the spot where he built his house...
...John Harvard came from England to this town hill," reads the inscription below the park's flagpole. "Dying 1638, he left half his estate and all his books to the College founded...
These tidbits of university lore are the stuff of Crimson Key tours, and seem a bit out of place in the sleepy, middle-class neighborhood that is home to the park...
Timmy Gillgun, who was playing with his young niece on the lone swing set and jungle gym in the park's corner, is a resident of a nearby housing project. He said he visits the park to get away from his neighborhood, but says the local community doesn't use the park very much...
Throughout Another City, Not My Own, Dunne has threaded his personal story. After arriving in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, he led an A-list social life but was a B-list producer, making The Boys in the Band, The Panic in Needle Park and the Elizabeth Taylor flop Ash Wednesday. "I hated Nick in the old days," says Sue Mengers, the most powerful agent in Hollywood at the time. "I thought he was superficial and arrogant." Dunne would agree...