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...breasts started growing at 13, she beat me across the chest until I fainted. Then she'd hug me and ask forgiveness. When I turned 16, a day didn't pass without my mother calling me a whore, and saying that I'd end up in Potter's Field, dead, forgotten and damned for all eternity. Most kids have nightmares about being taken away from their parents. I would sit on our front stoop, crooning softly of going far, far away to find another mother. "What she did to my young brother was worse. When...
...temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, 'It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.' And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers...
...York City has had a potter's field in one place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres of goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, sumac, broom sedge, oak and willow. At one time the island was also home to a prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would...
...city did, one year ago, was to put inmates on Hart Island to care for and look out for the place. Before then, the inmates had been ferried to the island for the burying, then ferried back to prison at night. Now there is a work camp at Potter's Field, and 48 prisoners live there round-the-clock. The prisoners profess a fondness for the field...
Terrence Gallagher, who has worked in the morgue for 32 years, and is now the director, says he has never been to Potter's Field, nor has he any desire to go. "It's not my end of the job," he says, then turns to his staffing problems. "It's not that I want geniuses, but could they at least send me somebody who can read and write...