By james art Judge Freddie Pitcher asked me to review his book and said, “Press, you too have a story to tell and you should tell it.”
I said, “Well, Freddie, I don’t know if anyone would be interested in what I did.”
Then the pandemic came and you couldn’t go anywhere. There was nothing you could do. So I’m stuck in the house.
I thought, “Maybe now is the time to write down a few things I remember.” Two years of writing and two years of trying to get it published (later) and here we are. As I was writing, I still had this feeling of, “I don’t think people are really going to care about this.”
When I did these things, it was just what I thought was right in society. I wasn’t looking for fame or anything like that. We just wanted to do it because it was the right thing to do.