"Crime  is soaring, schools  are  failing, government  has  lost  control, and  Lawrence, the  most godforsaken  place  in  Massachusetts, has  never  been  in  worse  shape"

Asi comienza el articulo de Jay Atkinson, acerca de Lawrence. Antes la aberrante descripcion, la reacion de la comunidad no se hizo esperar.

Daniel Rivera, representate de la ciudad, respondio: "

If Lawrence is a city of the damned — as you state in “City of the Damned” from the March issue of Boston magazine, piling on with many other media outlets to paint the City of Lawrence as a horrible place — it is the damned hardworking, the damned hopeful and the damned resilient. While your piece makes us out to be damned of our own doing, the real news is that we are standing at all."

El Sr. Atkinson, que se autodescribe como un novelista, luego como investigador y depues como un escritos de historietas cortas. A seguidas, Sr. Atkinson describe su visita al padre Obrien, Iristh, de South Lawrence.:

Afterward, I mention to O’Brien that his prayer sounded like something uttered by Karl Malden, who played a crusading priest in the 1954 film On the Waterfront. “In a place like Lawrence,” he replies, buttoning himself into a black topcoat on the front steps of the high school, “you’re either on the side of darkness or light."

 

Para leer el articulo y la repuesta favor ir: www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/city_of_the_damned_lawrence_massachusetts/