It’s not often we can cross-reference a personal anecdote from a reader with Google News archives reaching back 40 years. John Poirier’s first experience with guns—the theme of our new reader thread—was noted in the newspaper of his hometown of Lewiston, Maine, following his interview with the Boston Globe. Here’s John’s story in his own words: I was 23 years old, a newly minted pharmacist living in the South End of Boston, which was beginning the process of gentrification in 1976.
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Fri, 01/22/2016 - 4:34pm
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