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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rabun Gap in the north Georgia mountains. Wigginton, who grew up in Georgia and was educated at Cornell, wanted to teach young people about the glories of the area's independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since 1972, the books have sold more than...
...Arvln Brown, 39, was fresh out of the Yale University School of Drama and just 24 in 1965 when he helped start the Long Wharf Theater in a converted warehouse in New Haven, Conn. Becoming artistic director in 1967, he set about making the Long Wharf one of the best and boldest regional theaters in the nation. Broadway dares not take many chances, but Brown does, and the result is a series of plays staged first in New Haven and then moving on to New York: The Changing Room, Streamers, The Shadow Box, The Gin Game and a revival...
...scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially for the blacks and latinos who supported her. Her tough stand in suspending city supervisors who fail to show up for work has pleased taxpayers and set the city bureaucracy on nervous edge. Yet her use of patronage powers in appointing people of unquestioned loyalty?while firing holdovers from the previous administration?has made her the target of criticism. Says Byrne: "I dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit...
...Wallace C. Ford, 29, is executive vice president of Amistad Dot Venture Capital Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based investment company, backed by black private capital, that helps set up small businesses run by members of minorities. Although former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton is chief executive officer of the fledgling company, founded in March, Ford is responsible for much of the daily operations. A graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School, Ford at 27 became the youngest president of the Harlem Lawyers' Association. Onetime speechwriter for Sutton, Congressman Charles Rangel and Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Ind., Ford commutes between...
...black women really are: beautiful, courageous and incredibly vital people,' says Gillespie. Born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and schooled at Lake Forest College, Gillespie, now editor in chief, is in demand as a speaker about the aspirations of black women, and Essence, with a circulation of 600,000 has set a high standard of editorial quality...