Middle of Everywhere - Mary Bray Pipher [153]
Beatty Brasch and the Lincoln Action Program, Dick Roy and the Northwest Earth Institute, the Center for a New American Dream, Tammy Weihe, Mike Schell, Pat Fraikes, Mary Christensen, Susan Kash-Brown, Julie Skonard, Chris Orr, Rita Chen, Dave Masilko from Work USA, Norm Leach, Laureen Van Norman, the Samaritan Center, Rose Esseks, Margo Foreman, and Pam Laws, and thanks to Jennifer Aziz, Susan Amster, Jennifer Holiday, Arlene Kriv, David Nelson, David Hough, Dan Farley, and all the other wonderful people at Harcourt, Inc. Special thanks to the Bellagio Study and Conference Center and the Rockefeller Foundation for giving me a wonderful place to work. Thanks to Gianna Celli, Alberta and Ed Arthurs, and Susan Garfield for making Bellagio a paradise for its scholars.
The stories in this book are all about real people in my town. Some people wanted their names used and others did not. I have respected their requests. With the students, with clients, and with others who were concerned about their privacy, I have changed identifying details. I also changed the name of the schools, again to preserve the privacy of the students.
For the most part when I have quoted refugees I have corrected their English. I was just not up to the job of transcribing the thirty-two varieties of broken English in our city. Occasionally I have kept a phrase or two, because it seemed important for capturing the flavor of an interaction.
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