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It felt like the world was coming apart at the seams during that Spring of 1970. It wasn't just Kent State and Cambodia inflamming passions in the US -- it was left-wingers in Germany, in France and England.   It was the Red Guards in China.  It was a strange time to graduate. It felt like the existing institutions we had always known were all washed-up.  They turned out to be more resilient than we had understood, but still, going to a university or working for a corporation seemed so before-the-revolution. So we made up our own project.  I discovered cable television and we convinced ourselves this was a crucial new media front to influence as it was just emerging.  We learned all about what had happened and was happening in our state and published a little book about it.  We sold a few thousand of them and we were re-invented as cable consultants.

After a year in the high urban density of 68 Putnam Ave in Cambridge, we moved up to the North Shore and a nice big old house on a hill in Rowley.  We rented an office in Beverly and tried to be a serious voice for communities in the cable franchising process.  To some extent, we were.  After another year, it was obvious we needed to be back in the city.  We moved to a house across the street from JFK's birthplace in Brookline for the Summer, and then moved again to an amazing house in Dedham. Summer, 1970 - Spring, 1971    Putnam Ave       Cambridge, MA Summer, 1971 - Spring, 1972    Long Hil             Rowley, MA Summer, 1972                         Steadman St      Brookline, MA Fall, 1972                                High St              Dedham, MA

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