= 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
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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.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
