In 2016, Paula and David Grapes voted for Donald Trump. But this year the married couple hope that Senator Bernie Sanders becomes the next leader of the United States. “He’s the last honest politician,” said Paula Grapes, 54. In March, she and an estimated 15,000 others gathered at a Chicago rally in Grant Park, wearing […]
Daily Archives: September 10, 2020
GABE HUDSON: WHAT I’VE LEARNED 2
I was very cognizant of the generation that came before me — the Vietnam generation, my parents’ generation — so when I was writing “Dear Mr. President,” I felt that the characters were in conversation with the war literature that belonged to it. Nobody was thinking about war — this was pre-9-11. There wasn’t all […]
