Background and Youth
Origins
—"Yarmalintz, I think, was the name of the town."
Family Life
— "Father was an anarchist atheist."
Early Social Influences
— "The first thing he did was shlep me down to the public library."
High School
— " . . . they had a gorgeous campus."
Campus Life
Choosing Brooklyn
— "it was nearby, and it was free."
Social Life and Academics
— "Writing papers and going to the library and reading the textbooks on the train."
Politics
— "I wasn't very, very left. I was a little left."
Why They Joined the Project
— " . . . and you got a straw hat!"
Preparing for the Summer
— "I had never been particularly aware of fields."
Life on the Farm
Accommodations
— "She was from Europe so this was not upsetting to her."
Academics
— "He wasn't about to flunk anybody."
Early Experiences
— "I think it might have been my first pair of dungarees."
Farm Work
— "We did not sing, not like the movies."
Working Conditions
— "There were such inequalities."
Protests
— "Radicals in the corn and bean fields."
Interactions with Locals
— "Levine, Levy, Levinson, Nathanson."
Social Life
— " . . . and then we did such a stupid thing."
After the Project
Back to Campus
— "This was not real life. You know?"
Out in the World
— "We lived in a furnished room in the Bronx."
Later Life
— "I made eighteen trips to Morocco."
