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Mary Beth Meehan on “Seen/Unseen” Providence
RISD Museum of Art: Interviews with People Featured on Banners, 11.1.2016
José has just left the neurologist’s office, in Boston. Corinn Williams, of the CEDC, has volunteered to drive him there, and with Corinn translating, he tells the doctor…
red roses
Manuel takes me to visit his neighbor, whom he’d heard had been assaulted. On that night he had come home bleeding, and their landlady had called the police….
julian’s question
Julian is concerned about the churchgoers, mostly people of Mayan origin from Guatemala, yet some are also from El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic. He has seen young…
showing up
Visited the bakery on Acushnet Ave., where the owner, Benedicto, has had many problems with violence – including a carjacking. But he wasn’t there. A woman named Juana…
Transito Santos isn’t sure how her partner, Feliciano, died. All she knows is this: he had worked a seven-day week, Monday through Friday at the fish processing plant,…
Manuel was attacked three times on the streets of New Bedford before he went to the police. The first time was in 2006. He had worked the night…
a collaborative process
Met with Manuel, a man who’d been stabbed and attacked three times before going to police. In talking to him, came up with a process I might try…
no hay paz
Visiting the CEDC weekly now, trying to put in the time, understand the issues, meet the people, convey that I don’t want to make anything worse for them….