MIX OF "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" AND BLUE REACTION TO GARAGE-TOP VISTA:
Just below the sidewalk on JFK St. in Harvard Square is a little elevator button that points 'up."
And at the top of this elevator is a flight of stairs. And at the top of these stairs is a vista over pristine steeples and S-shaped river. During a late-October sunset in 2007, I contemplated this vista with "Brother Blue". Two years later he passed on at the age of 88. He conjured up Ray Charles for us, and I think he got it all right: the song, the setting, the nation, and his self. Keep calling us from the mountain, Blue.
Brother Blue in the Cambridge Burying Ground, 2007
View from on top of the Harvard Square Garage.
That elevator button under the JFK street sidewalk.
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