ODDS and ENDS for October, 2022
New Edition of Red Wheelbarrow #15 (2022)
This anthology includes “Dreams of Madness and Wonder” on my experience backstage and in the audience with my a Life and the Arts.
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DPQuinn | New Jersey 10.5.22
Joe Biden has made inroads in this miasma, but djt screams louder and lies to make people feel better. He is the jim jones of our time — — with all the unvaccinated people who took trumps macabre advice and died in ICUS across the country. Djt is demonic, deranged and in “mad mode.”. America suffers with all his venom and the Republicans ARE at fault for ignorance, insolence and belligerence, as the USA falter, except for the very rich who are all making a killing, day after day
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DPQuinn | New Jersey 10/5/22
Rutgers University School of Business offered me a partial scholarship, only a few years ago, in Ethics. This article both as an overall appraisal of the revolving doors culture in DC for the elite would make Lincoln cringe. And myself. The disorganized attack on the capital was filled by rage, from the dissolute nefarious mouth of trump.
My Certificate in Ethics is posted on my refrigerator near my MA in Performing Arts from The American University. My whole career has careened between some support and too little or none from my other people and foundations. Where is fairness and any shred of ethical behavior by these lawyers and lobbyists.
WHERE ?
Newark, Italy + Me.
by Daniel P Quinn (Author)
Top review from the United States
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2021
To know Newark is to love Newark. That might be one way to sum up the heartfelt tribute Daniel P. Quinn has made to his beloved city in his new insightful book, “Newark, Italy + Me.”
The city was a manufacturing hub and the author’s maternal side, the Carusos, came to work in the factories there. The author sees himself, “As an Irish-Italian I am a bridge between both cultures.” While working in Italy at LaScala, “a stagehand asked me if I was ‘Irish’. Startled, I said I was Irish American and Italo-American never realizing I could be looked upon as Irish.” Quinn is not unlike other longtime residents of Newark. He retains great pride in the city while acknowledging its slow resurrection from the terrible 1967 riots. He laments the fate of a minor league baseball stadium, built 20 years ago, in the hopes of rebounding downtown. “The almost new Bears Stadum is due for demolition! Newark keeps coming back and going sideways as well.”
Such are the ups and downs of many old cities in America. Right when you think the path ahead is to embrace a bright future, a change in municipal leadership arises to set things back many years.
Quinn loves Newark not just for a sentimental attachment to his hometown. The city is rich in history and culture. He shares with readers how the city was founded when the “Puritans arrived first to found Newark…after the great 1666 fire in London…Newark was named Newark-on-Trent in England.”
Quinn knows the background of city streets, wards and key landmarks. He conveys how ethnic neighborhoods may change over time in Newark.
He writes: “St. Lucy’s Church has sponsored the Feast of St. Gerard in October every year since the 1890s. They have done so through the rise, fall and demolition of the Italian neighborhood. More recently, St. Lucy’s also saw the rise and fall of the adjacent Columbus homes (1950–2000). Now run by the Comboni Fathers (who left Montclair for Newark) are welcoming a new generation of Hispanic and Haitian immigrants.”
The author’s tone, no doubt, is one of support for Newark’s ultimate rebound. As he mixes poems and essays, he is rooting for Newark to reclaim its unofficial title as America’s most dynamic city. “Newark, Italy + Me” is a tribute worthy of reading for all Italian Americans of New Jersey and of all over America.
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