Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventy-One
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"My Father Was"
"I've come down from the upper class
To mend your rotten ways
My father was a man-of-power
Whom everyone obeyed"
(Jethro Tull, "Thick As A Brick," 1972)
- District Executive of The Cape Cod District of The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Hyannis, Massachusetts during the 1960's and 1970's.
= Author, "Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother," 1965
= Sage Journals
NEXT: My Mother Was!
= Louis Jacobucci
Lil Boochie World!
= Lil Boochie World was the most hideous of Downtown Boochton's “adult entertainment establishments” (massage parlors, nude live entertainments and strip clubs, erotic and adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, peep shows and ***-shop booths) which, by the late 1960s and 1970s, had spread across Booch Square, and made it so notoriously seedy, that it had begun to be called “The Sinkhole," which also had a reputation for crime, including prostitution, drugs and gambling.
= Activities occurred in these businesses under the guise of ‘dancing’: lap dancing, peep shows, in which dancers stripped in booths (e.g., the Humming Marmot in Mot Francisco and Burrattle) and “private” VIP rooms. (One would not expect you, dear reader, to have personal expertise in these subjects. After all, we certainly aren’t ...
Dreamstory, Chapter Three: Unitarian Church
UNITARIAN CHURCH
Barnstable Patriot, May 23, 1968
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Speaker for the 11 a.m. service of the Unitarian Church May 26 will be Louis Jacobucci, executive director of MSPCC, who has been chairman of the social concerns committee of the church and is chairman of the prudential committee. Among other activities are membership in Hyannis Rotary; he is also vice president of Cape Cod Community Council and chairman of Community Action Committee of Cape Cod.
"So, look. Miss Andrews."
"Yes."
"You understand this is a very serious charge to bring against anyone."
"Yes."
"Let alone your own brother."
"Yes."
"It never happened."
"Well, actually, it kind of totally did."
"You are deluded."
"Well, that may be, but I would submit that my mental health history is a result of having stuff like that done to me in the first place."
"You lie."
"I don't, actually. In fact, this is the first...
Dreamstory, Chapter One: What Happens At The End
By Velveteen Andrews
"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 ...
