Amalia's Story, Chapter Forty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"New Haven smelled of neglect"
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)
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= Right now I'm in the midst of reading the novel Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
= I had listened to her read from a short story in a National Book Awards Author Events podcast, and the quality of her prose plus how charming and smart she was in the interview part really made me want to delve more into her work (all the prizes she's won didn't hurt either).
= There's also an older interview/reading with her on the BBC's World Book Club podcast site that's well worth listening to (re her previous novel, Half of a Yellow Sun).
= She hooked me completely with the first paragraph of Americanah:
"Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of a smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew well had all smelled distinctly.
Philadelphia had the musty scent of history.
New Haven smelled of neglect.
Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage.
But Princeton had no smell.
She liked taking deep breaths here.
She liked watching the locals who drove with pointed courtesy and parked their latest model cars outside the organic grocery store on Nassau Street or outside the sushi restaurants or outside the ice cream shop that had fifty different flavors including red pepper or outside the post office where effusive staff bounded out to greet them at the entrance.
She liked the campus, grave with knowledge, the Gothic buildings with their vine-laced walls, and the way everything transformed, in the half-light of night, into a ghostly scene.
She liked, most of all, that in this place of affluent ease, she could pretend to be someone else, someone specially admitted into a hallowed American club, someone adorned with certainty."
= I love the "delicately" overpriced shops and the "pointed" courtesy. I'm about a third of the way through, and it's the kind of book you can't wait to get back to in the evening after you've dispatched all the tasks of the day.

= Louis Jacobucci
"Poverty pockets"
Anti-Poverty Program Director To Be Announced Next Week By CAC
Barnstable Patriot, September 01, 1966
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/sturgis/sharedview.article.aspx?href=BAR%2F1966%2F09%2F01&id=Ar00101&sk=310F5D0F&viewMode=text
September 27, 1966: MLK=A riot is the language of the unheard
https://youtu.be/_K0BWXjJv5s?si=zENKMG6L-1Umm8rK
Appointment of an
executive director of
Cape Cod's newly organized Mili-uoverty group, the Community Action Committee of Barnstable County, inc.,
at a yearly salary of 411,500. probably will be made next week.
According to Roscoe McDowell of Hyannis Port, chairman of the new croup's personnel committee, there have been more than 20 applicants i far the executive position,
He said I Ms committee is looking for a coll''Bo graduate with experience in ( business administration, writing ' Md speaking ability, and with creative nnd imaginative qualities.
"Our director," said Mr. Mc-Dowell, "will be trail-Mazing hi unchartered territory and will ««ed to have pioneer attributes. Bemuse the Anti-Poverty program is « adventure into the new and the thalienging, the caliber of the director will be important."
T «e Office of Economic Opportun-,ly ln Washington early In August sectioned a grant of 131,263 to the Cone Community Action Committo'
It has received the necessary approval by
Gov. Volpe. A break-Q wi) of the grant which was only MBo less than the local committee } guested shows the following bud-Ket:
$25,886 for personnel,
$600 for ""militants,
$2,322 for travel.
S2,100 'Ql «¦"!, $1,374 for supplies,
11,603 rental equipment and
$875 in ^i costs .
while
the survey made last year y
Cape cod Community Council
as somewhat of a shock
to resldw of an area
long considered
one ' «w most affluent in the north-«•¦ .
it did reveal that approxlmatesaiwl!60 famllles have Incomes »f ™m a year.
More than half of ,„ ' ^e survey indicated, earned Je than $2,ooo.
The Council's survey further showed that those families, classified by the OEO as
"poor and living in a state of poverty,"
represent
11,589 individuals, or
16 and a half per cent of
Cape Cod's population.
Reasons for
"poverty pockets"
throughout the
Cape are cited by
Louis Jacobucci.
executive secretary of
M.S.P.C.C.'s Cape branch,
and a member of the
Community Action Committee.
They are
illiteracy,
und^r-employment
(working at such low wages
that a family cannot be supported)
and
poor health.
Mr. Jacobucci added,
"There Is great ne^d for year round, low income housing.
Every May and June we hear from poor families who have been ousted from winter quarters to make room for the higher summer rentals."
Heading the
Community Action Committee as
president is
Edward C. Hempel,
Barnstable County 4-H Clubs agent.
The group, incorporated last fall, sprang from the Cape Community Council.
Other officers are
John A. Coe, Forestdalc, vice president;
John L. Roche, East Harwich, secretary, and the
Rev. Kenneth R. Warren, Barnstable, treasurer.

= Velveteen Andrews

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= Harriet McCurdy Cameron Hall Jacobucci
"Moon Landing Hard Act To Follow, But Autograph Party Did Its Best"
By Evelyn Lawson
Barnstable Patriot, July 24, 1969
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/sturgis/sharedview.article.aspx?href=DPLTR%2F1969%2F07%2F24&id=Ar02200&sk=3D8F5609&viewMode=image
The moon landing is a hard act to follow. And the latest Kennedy tragedy has eclipsed all the casual chatter-news out of the running. However, despite the glorious and prideful moon story and the Kennedy affair our little lives with their minor events go on. So: The highlights of the autograph party at the Stage Door Lounge, last Friday afternoon was attended by more than 250 guests and as many Theater On Cape Cod books were autographed and sold. This writer began signing books at 4 and did not drop pen until 7:30. Never has "Sardl's" In the country looked more glamorous. The new manager, Paul SuH Ivan and his staff outdid themselves in the decorations, punch, food and all refreshments were delicious and stylishly served. Wires arrived from Congressman Hastings Keith in Washington and Playhouse Manager Charles Mooney in California and the Chronical staff in Chatham, flowers from Harry and Holly Sevlour and Catharine Huntington and the Provlncetown Playhouse. The first celebrity to arrive was Mr. Richard Aldrlch who bought five books, two will go to each of his sons who once served on the Playhouse staff. The executive staff of Monomoy Theater came next, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Lane, scenic designer Carolyn I Ross, drama coach, Kathleen Stafford, actor-director Spencer Steenrod and Jack Snell and business manager Marlon Hare. Helen Pond and Herb Sennthe Cape Playhouse scene designers began the guests from Dennis. Mrs. Carolyn | St. John, the Playhouse staff and ' members of the visiting company. Happily both Miss Catharine Huntington and Mrs. Virginia Thorns LePeer, founders of the Provincetown Playhouse, made the scene escorted by Charles Cohen, box office manager of the Cape-tip playhouse. The BCC turned out in goodly force. President Barbara Cotton, Directors Doris St. Coure and Isobel Grassle, dance authority La Merl and a whole list of the BCC prime actors, David and Nancy Lanlng, Sue Howes, Ben Hulley and his artist wife Joan, Bettina Dinsmore, Shirley Marion, Peter Eustace and many other I heard but could not see because of the mob around the autograph table. Many old and dear personal friends were on hand to share the fun like Shirley Watters, Mildred Wye, Harriet and Ray Hall, the Floyd Pratts, Fred Hlsock, Dick and Helen Ladenburg, Loring Myette and stunning Gertrude Llpplncott in black and white lace, the Allan Neals, Russ and Pat Kelsey and on and on passed by the table the familiar faces of friends. Kurt and Jane Vonnegut seemed to have fun. I was glad to see theatrical photographer William L. Smith who contributed so many photographs to the book and Percy Williams was the press agent for Richard Aldrich's Cape Interests. They tell me It was a good party.