Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider New Yorker Michael Greenberg, who every winter gathers, repairs and hands out gloves to the homeless. Consider Ray Buchanan and Ken Horne of Big Island, Va., who collect farmers' discarded potatoes and deliver them to the hungry. And consider lanky, 6-ft. 4-in. Graham, 46, and petite, vivacious Medlock, 55, who flirt with financial disaster to keep their project going in order to spread the word about good deeds in an unkind world. The object, says Medlock, is to inspire everyone "to stop being an ostrich...
...able to have it. Last winter David's father, like many other miners, lost his job. Unemployment pays him less than half his union wage. "Yeah, I want to be a coal miner," David says, "if they ain't shut down...
After Larry was laid off last winter, he began cooking, cleaning and putting the three children to bed. To help out with expenses, Joy took a job selling + coupons for photographs door to door. She drives to distant hollows, logging nearly 1,800 miles during the five or six days she works each week. She takes in about $240 a week before taxes and expenses, barely breaking even after car repairs and other costs. Now Larry thinks about heading north to look for work in a factory...
David shares a bedroom with his siblings. The room is barely large enough to fit the three beds. In the winter, cold air knifes through the spaces between the clapboard walls. The children sleep under layers of homemade patchwork quilts. No door separates their bedroom from the living room, a small rectangle dominated by the wood stove that is the sole source of heat for the house...
Katie is a day-care child. To her generation of children, day care is as familiar a destination as Disneyland, if not nearly as magical. During the fall, winter and spring, Katie goes to day care before and after school each day. Because of Mona's presence, Katie has had a brief reprieve. Says she: "I used to go to day care all summer. I didn't look forward to summer then...