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Priscilla Loston, 35, the group's feisty treasurer, is one of the nail pullers. She recently received a new home, a former country barroom that was transplanted to Four Corners to replace her tumbledown shack. She did much of the makeover, dividing the interior into separate rooms and installing paneling and electrical boxes. "This is Four Corners Self Help, not sit on your butt and get help," says Loston, as she yanks out a stubborn nail...
...title refers to a merry harvest festival in County Donegal. But the action never leaves the cottage and yard of the five Mundy sisters, living poor and unmarried in tumbledown Ballybeg in the hard year of 1936, with no entertainment but a balky old radio and their Celtic gift for chat. The play is a memory play, told as flashbacks from the present by a middle-aged man who was then a boy of seven. He is the illegitimate son of the most rebellious Mundy sister by a wandering wastrel who, after years away, comes to call. The Mundy women...
...artless, projection of this healing spirit. There is nothing metaphoric about the empty space left in her life by the war; her father was killed in Viet Nam before she could know him. Her mother having remarried and moved away, Samantha has chosen to stay behind and share the tumbledown family home in Hopewell, Ky., with her uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a veteran damaged by the war in some way he refuses to name. Now in the summer after her high school graduation, she comes upon the letters her dad wrote from Nam, and eventually his diary. Using this material...
...tumbledown house on Van Dyke Avenue on Detroit's gritty East Side looks as if it fell from the sky. Actually, it collapsed after scavengers pried the bricks out from the foundation. Armed with wagons, shopping carts, wheelbarrows and pickup trucks, vandals have descended upon the city's empty buildings. In some cases, they have hauled away entire walls and porches, brick by brick. These thefts are a new wrinkle in free-lance demolition on the East Side, which has also experienced a plague of aluminum-siding rip-offs...
...matter of conscience," that would provide the poor with "simple, decent, affordable housing." He called his enterprise Habitat for Humanity. The idea of a house-building ministry was inspired by Koinonia Farm, an integrated Christian community in a poor, rural, south Georgia area strewn with crude shacks and tumbledown homes...