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...Warehouse Cooperative School is an alternative school for students ages 5 to 18 which stresses physical, social-emotional, spacial and auditory learning equally with academic development. 80 students from all over the Boston area, including as far away as Plymouth and Marblehead, gather in the vacated warehouse in Roxbury's industrial section...
...father, a fisherman from the Cape Verdi islands who came to the United States at the turn of the century and married the daughter of a black family that had escaped to the north via the Underground Railway just before the Civil War. Gomes's parents settled in Plymouth--only minutes from the Rock--and raised their children amid the history and the religion of the old Pilgrim landing...
Gomes finds it strange that so many in Plymouth just knew all along that he would become a minister, because, in the end, it was a surprise for him. "I didn't have a strong religious upbringing," he says, "but I had a very consistent one. I had a grandfather who was a Baptist minister, and my mother's family were all very active, and I grew up with the assumptions that flow from an intimacy with the church...
Gomes enjoyed it enough to attend two churches--one in the morning among whites and the other in the evening with Plymouth's tiny black community. Still, suggestions that he become a preacher unnerved him. "I loved to talk and I liked the church," he says. "It was the ministers I didn't like. Either they were too arbitrary, or too cold, or they were just too fuddy-duddyish." Determined to escape the confines of organized religion, he left Plymouth for Bates College to study another love, history, and "let nature take its course...
...full title of this seldom produced opera, I Puritani di Scozia, is never used any more. That is because Bellini's Italian librettist, Carlo Pepoli, thought Plymouth was in Scotland instead of southern England. The curtain rises to find the Puritans in league with Cromwell in his battle against the Cavaliers loyal to the Stuarts. The Puritan leader, Lord Walton, is even holding prisoner the widow of Charles I, Enrichetta...