Speaker 1: It's Night's eye, Dan Ray. I'm telling you eazy Boston's
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Madison. As we head through a
Speaker 2: warm Thursday night, it has been a very warm Thursday,
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Speaker 2: great show coming up tonight, going to talk a lot
Speaker 2: about some things the President has done in the last
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Speaker 2: being accepted Harvard University, as well as reinstating a US
Speaker 2: travel band about various countries around. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: later after nine o'clock. We have four interesting guests here tonight.
Speaker 2: Back in the control room is Rob Brooks along with
Speaker 2: his top deputy assistant, Shane, and we're ready to rock
Speaker 2: and roll here. We want to start off with a
Speaker 2: great friend of the program who we are going to
Speaker 2: have on more regularly. I'm not exactly sure if we
Speaker 2: had this schedule all worked out, but Emily Sweeney from
Speaker 2: the Boston Globe. She does a program at the Globe.
Speaker 2: It's called Cold Case Files. She's also the Blotter Tales columnist. Hi,
Speaker 2: Emily Sweeney, Welcome back to Night's Side.
Speaker 3: Hey Dan, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2: I'm going about seventy eight RPM here because we got
Speaker 2: so much to cover, but I want to slow it
Speaker 2: down here and talk about a case you have been
Speaker 2: working on that deals with the disappearance of a bright
Speaker 2: mom right by what was the old Boston Garden right
Speaker 2: down downtown Boston near Canal Street. Disappeared in nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: five along with her car, and now her son, who
Speaker 2: lives in Pennsylvania, is offering a fifty thousand dollars reward
Speaker 2: for any information. He has no hope of finding his
Speaker 2: mom alive, but he just wants to provide her with
Speaker 2: a decent burial. This is a heartbreaking story, Emily tell
Speaker 2: us about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is a really important case too. Dorothy
Speaker 3: Garashko was going out to meet some friends for drinks
Speaker 3: at the Old Penalty Box on June fourth, nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 3: and that was the last place that known sighting of
Speaker 3: where she was. She was seen walking out of the bar,
Speaker 3: leaving her friends, walking towards her car and disappeared, vanished
Speaker 3: without a trace in her car too. And to this
Speaker 3: day she's not been found, but there have been so efforts,
Speaker 3: and actually there are search efforts underway. I learned of
Speaker 3: a new development today where there's a possibility that her
Speaker 3: car might be in the Charles River. We don't know,
Speaker 3: but I spoke with Hans Huge. He's a he runs
Speaker 3: a company called Sona Searching Recovery up in New Hampshire,
Speaker 3: and he ran Sona on the Charles River and he
Speaker 3: found five cars that he's going to be diving to
Speaker 3: see if maybe, just maybe one of them is Dorothy's car.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's amazing to think that a car could be
Speaker 2: put into the Charles river. And I don't know the
Speaker 2: depth of the Charles River. Obviously we all have seen
Speaker 2: the sailboats on the river and other watercraft, but I
Speaker 2: assume that Charles River is not that deep, particularly near
Speaker 2: near the shoreline. I mean, how do you see there's
Speaker 2: really no bridges you can drive a car off. When
Speaker 2: you think about it, this, yeah, well, I'm wondering if
Speaker 2: if with license plates, assuming the license plate wasn't removed,
Speaker 2: but you have to wonder if fifty years underwater oxidation
Speaker 2: would not have destroyed whatever enumeration might be on a
Speaker 2: license plate. Have you talked to him about any of
Speaker 2: that aspect. I hate to throw this at your gold
Speaker 2: because we don't know these Those are the thoughts that
Speaker 2: are running through my mind right now.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, Dan, and I asked Hans the same thing.
Speaker 3: You know, so he knows the five cars that would
Speaker 3: may have been on the route that Dorothy may have
Speaker 3: you know, taken or you know, maybe somebody who you
Speaker 3: know did something bad to her, may have taken her
Speaker 3: and her cap uh. And you know the Childs River,
Speaker 3: you know, the cas are in different like you know,
Speaker 3: have been decomposed over the years. And Hans says like
Speaker 3: it's really had compared to like diving in the Charles
Speaker 3: River sometimes so like diving in chocolate milk and here
Speaker 3: trying to like see as you can imagine, and so
Speaker 3: the conditions change a lot from time to time. And
Speaker 3: the thing is about license plates, he said that usually
Speaker 3: they survived that like they're made of material aluminum that
Speaker 3: can you survive, you know, years and years underwater. So
Speaker 3: a license plate could be a way to identify because
Speaker 3: or could be a hood or ornaments, it could be
Speaker 3: any number of things, like just to rule it out,
Speaker 3: so you know that that's what we're you know, we're
Speaker 3: hoping for.
Speaker 2: And it's astonishing about the stories that you find out
Speaker 2: about and you get involved with various police departments. We
Speaker 2: always assume that on crimes like that there's a solution,
Speaker 2: but often there isn't. And yeah, because the story, the
Speaker 2: story will be a big story for a few days
Speaker 2: depending upon the story. Uh, and then maybe a month
Speaker 2: later someone does a follow up story and then it's
Speaker 2: lost to the to antiquity. And to think that this
Speaker 2: man in I guess he lost his mom. Was he
Speaker 2: fourteen years old? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He was Rick Dorothy's son, was just fourteen when she
Speaker 3: went missing.
Speaker 2: And we're f fifty years later, right, this is fifty
Speaker 2: years from nineteen seventy five. Yeah, he's sixty four. I
Speaker 2: has to have left an indelible mark on his life.
Speaker 2: Did he have siblings, do you know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, two other brothers, and you know it's very difficult,
Speaker 3: you know for them, I mean again, and they still
Speaker 3: don't have answers. I mean just think, you know, one
Speaker 3: day your mom's there, the next day she's not, and
Speaker 3: you have no answers as to like, what happened to her?
Speaker 3: Is she coming home? Meanwhile, you still have to continue
Speaker 3: going to school, and you know it was obviously it
Speaker 3: changed their lives, you know, forever, and to this day
Speaker 3: they're still wondering. And that's why the family's offering a
Speaker 3: fifty thou read all the reward for any information that
Speaker 3: could lead to the recovery of you know, her remains
Speaker 3: and the vehicle she was driving, just to get it out.
Speaker 3: There was a gold nineteen seventy nineteen seventy Ford Maverick
Speaker 3: with a black roof. And again, you know, they're hoping
Speaker 3: that somebody might have information, somebody might have seen something.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so trying.
Speaker 2: When I think of this. We're so fortunate to have
Speaker 2: you work these cases and report them to us. But
Speaker 2: when you think about this, she had to have had friends.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the police must have investigated. I'm sure there
Speaker 2: might have been suspects. But all of that obviously gets
Speaker 2: boxed up in a nice little file cabinet somewhere and
Speaker 2: gets put away and is not looked at for decades,
Speaker 2: and now hopefully maybe some leave will get this going.
Speaker 2: Obviously she's not alive, I'm sure, but you talk about closure,
Speaker 2: I'm sure that family wants to know what happened to
Speaker 2: their mom on that night fifty years ago in which
Speaker 2: she probably lost her life. Emily, thanks so much. These stories,
Speaker 2: to me are fascinating. I covered crime, not to the
Speaker 2: level that you have, but I covered crime as a reporter,
Speaker 2: and there are police out there. They want to solve
Speaker 2: these cases, they really do. And you would even think
Speaker 2: that if somebody did this, you hope that there's a
Speaker 2: deathbed confession. You think about things like that. You know,
Speaker 2: they get someone really going to die and not you know, say,
Speaker 2: you know on their last breath. Look here's what I did.
Speaker 2: I regretted it for the rest of my life. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Humanity is a very complex area to investigate,
Speaker 2: but you do it so well. Emily. As always, thanks
Speaker 2: so much, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks sticking with this and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks Emily.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, we get back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about a high school high schooler
Speaker 2: from Belmont who has developed a senior outreach collaborator high school.
Speaker 2: This isn't for seniors in high school. This is to
Speaker 2: help seniors, people of a certain vintage, to help them
Speaker 2: adapt to the world of technology. We will be talking
Speaker 2: with Libby Zuccarello right after the break and should her
Speaker 2: family be proud of her? Where do you hear this story?
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Madison, We of course are now we're
Speaker 2: in summer. Okay. We went from spring last weekend or
Speaker 2: late winter, whatever you want to call it, this summer
Speaker 2: in a matter of about seventy two hours. And it
Speaker 2: couldn't be more appropriate for us to bring back Mark
Speaker 2: on Anastasio, who's the coolest. Corner Theater director of Programming.
Speaker 2: They have announced their summer twenty twenty five outdoor screening lineup,
Speaker 2: And as I look at it, Mark, not only are
Speaker 2: there some great movies here, but they're going to be
Speaker 2: shown in different locations. How many years now have you
Speaker 2: been doing this outdoor screening lineup? I think, if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken, we talked to you guys about this year ago,
Speaker 2: did we not.
Speaker 4: That's right, Dan, We've been doing outdoor screenings at a
Speaker 4: few of these locations for going on ten years now,
Speaker 4: and they're pretty remarkable places like the Rose Kennedy Greenway,
Speaker 4: the Charles Rivers Speedway here in Austin, Brighton Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Speaker 4: and the Rocky Woods, which is one of the locations
Speaker 4: of the Trustees of Reservations. And each each location we
Speaker 4: really try to, you know, play play films that kind
Speaker 4: of that kind of bring out where where we're at.
Speaker 4: It's it's a lot of fun. And each each place,
Speaker 4: you know, presents a new challenge to to our projection team,
Speaker 4: and it's a lot. It's it's a great time.
Speaker 2: So you start not this Friday night, but eight nights
Speaker 2: from now on Friday the thirteenth, how appropriate? And you yeah,
Speaker 2: you have a Friday the thirteenth double feature.
Speaker 4: That's right, this is. This is probably our tenth or
Speaker 4: eleventh year of running a Friday the thirteenth double feature
Speaker 4: out at the Rocky Woods with the trustees. It's it's
Speaker 4: a site that we visited. They called us out to
Speaker 4: it a decade ago and said, we'd like you to
Speaker 4: take a look at this property and let us know
Speaker 4: if you can think of any good films that you'd
Speaker 4: like to put on here. And it is. It's a
Speaker 4: lakeside property with a cabin on the lake. And the
Speaker 4: minute I set foot on it, I said, you know,
Speaker 4: would you be opposed to us playing a couple of
Speaker 4: horror movies out here because the location itself, it makes
Speaker 4: you feel like you're in one of the Friday the
Speaker 4: Thirteenth movies. And luckily they were game for that, and
Speaker 4: we've Yeah, it's a decade plus us celebrating. Help me
Speaker 4: celebrating out there.
Speaker 2: I don't know everything. Where is Rocky Woods? Where is
Speaker 2: it located?
Speaker 4: Rocky the Rocky Sure, the Rocky Woods is in Medfield, Massachusetts. Oh,
Speaker 4: I know, Okay, Yeah, it's a it's a great it's
Speaker 4: a great area. It's on Hartford Street in Medfield. It's
Speaker 4: it is a little tricky you're gonna have to plug
Speaker 4: it into your GPS in order to get there. And
Speaker 4: the the screening location itself is set a little ways
Speaker 4: up up a road from the parking lot, but we
Speaker 4: make sure to put lots of spooky lanterns out to
Speaker 4: light the way, to sort of set the mood as
Speaker 4: people approach the cabin and where the screen and the
Speaker 4: projector are set up. And for these Friday the thirteenth shows,
Speaker 4: we even we even hire an actor to dress up
Speaker 4: as Jason Vorhees to to scare people as they're they're
Speaker 4: coming on to the property.
Speaker 2: Let's do this. I want to just give people a
Speaker 2: sense of it. So that's Friday the thirteenth, And obviously
Speaker 2: they can go to the website, which is like the
Speaker 2: Coolidge dot org slash type slash outdoor hype and screenies.
Speaker 2: We'll give that again.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, well they we can. We we can
Speaker 4: shorten it. If you just do Coolidge dot org slash outdoor,
Speaker 4: it'll take you there, perfect, Okay.
Speaker 2: So then the following Wednesday, you're doing one of the
Speaker 2: Charles River Speedway. I don't want to sound like a
Speaker 2: knuckle ahead, but what is the Charles River Speedway?
Speaker 4: The Charles River Speedway is a great uh, it's a
Speaker 4: great revitalized set of buildings. It's it's it's an old
Speaker 4: racetrack from the late eighteen hundreds and for years it
Speaker 4: kind of sat vacant. But in the last five years
Speaker 4: or so the property was redone and now there are
Speaker 4: all sorts of shops and restaurants and and a wonderful
Speaker 4: beer garden run by the folks at Notch Brewery, and
Speaker 4: it's it's a great place for people in the neighborhood
Speaker 4: to hang out and get us.
Speaker 2: Is that is that on on Western Avenue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right on Western Avenue, right right by the river.
Speaker 2: It's right behind well, it's right behind the old WBZ.
Speaker 2: Well what for me was the old buildings exactly where
Speaker 2: Henry's Diner used to.
Speaker 4: Be, right, That's that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, okay, I never knew it as Charles Rivers
Speaker 2: speed Well. You're gonna uh, you're gonna show good Burger there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're showing we show good We're showing good
Speaker 4: Burger on Wednesday. These are films. The films that we
Speaker 4: play at the Speedway are movies that kind of fit
Speaker 4: into our our rewind program that we usually host here
Speaker 4: at the theater. These are these are films that people
Speaker 4: in their twenties and thirties are nostalgic for, you know,
Speaker 4: movies that came out anywhere from like the mid nineties.
Speaker 4: You know, there's some eighties films of mid nineties through
Speaker 4: the early opts. Is like the Wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: So they get to a couple more of these here.
Speaker 2: We got a blade Runner on the week later, June
Speaker 2: twenty fifth at sunset, and that is at the Rose
Speaker 2: Kennedy Greenway. Everyone knows where the Rose Kennedy Greenway is downtown,
Speaker 2: followed by point break again. This is Wednesday, July sixteenth
Speaker 2: at sunset. Okay, Then July twenty third, at sunset, you
Speaker 2: go back to the Charles River Speedway on Western Avenue
Speaker 2: for mean Girls. It's just perfect. And then we're gonna
Speaker 2: really get a little retro here, and we're gonna go
Speaker 2: and watch the Blob from nineteen eighty eight August thirteenth
Speaker 2: on the Greenway. And then we got Twin Peaks fire
Speaker 2: Walk with Me August twentieth at the Charles River Speedway.
Speaker 2: We're getting a lot of Charles River Speedways here.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, the monthly.
Speaker 2: Here's one Cemetery Cinema, The Sweet Hereafter and The Gates
Speaker 2: of Heaven, The Coolest Returns Little Spooky to the Mount
Speaker 2: Auburn Cemetery twenty sixth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Mount Auburn we've done. We took a little
Speaker 4: bit of a hiatus. There was like a five year
Speaker 4: break with us putting on the Cemetery Cinema program. But
Speaker 4: there they're a location that we love showing films at
Speaker 4: and they are open to showing films that are about grief,
Speaker 4: that are about reflections on death. Last year's program was
Speaker 4: maybe a little bit more fun. We screened ingmar Bergman's
Speaker 4: The Seventh Seal and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, both
Speaker 4: films that feature, you know, personified representations of death. But
Speaker 4: this year we've got we've got a new restoration. No, no,
Speaker 4: it's well, the Bill and Ted film is a comedy,
Speaker 4: but you know, we're starting this program for Sweet here After,
Speaker 4: followed by Gates of Heaven. Sweet Hereafter is definitely a
Speaker 4: somber film that deals with grief and it's an excellent film.
Speaker 4: And then we're going to lighten things up by playing
Speaker 4: Errol Morris's Gates a heaven. Aer Morris a filmmaker from Cambridge,
Speaker 4: incredible documentarian. He's allowing us to screen his first film,
Speaker 4: Gates of Heaven, which is a film about a pet
Speaker 4: cemetery needing to be moved. But it is. It's it's
Speaker 4: filled with so many wonderful characters reflecting on you know,
Speaker 4: how they'd like to have a place to grieve the
Speaker 4: loss of their past. It doesn't sound like something that
Speaker 4: would be heartwarming, but it really is.
Speaker 2: And it should.
Speaker 4: It should, it should lighten the mood playing second in
Speaker 4: the program. But the cemetery is such a gorgeous location
Speaker 4: and there's not a lot of folks that are allowed
Speaker 4: to do things there after dark. So this is a
Speaker 4: really unique opportunity for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then then we're going to finish up. We
Speaker 2: got two more, both going to be at the Charles
Speaker 2: River Speedway on Western Avenue across from where Henry's Diner
Speaker 2: used to be. Teen Age Ninja Turtles a favorite of
Speaker 2: my son back when he was about three years old
Speaker 2: for several years. And then that is September seventeenth, and
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, October fifteenth, I Know what you did last summer.
Speaker 2: That's also at the Charles River Speedway. So it looks
Speaker 2: to me like everything at the Childs River Speedway is Wednesdays.
Speaker 2: A lot of these are middle of the week. There's
Speaker 2: none that I can see that any of them are
Speaker 2: on the only Friday the thirteenth. Others it's the middle
Speaker 2: of the week, which means it's great you can go
Speaker 2: and have a lot of fun and enjoy movies. I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask the tough question, are these free? Are
Speaker 2: they these? Are these free movies or is there most
Speaker 2: of them?
Speaker 4: Let's see, there are charges for the Friday the thirteenth
Speaker 4: program and for the program at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Those
Speaker 4: are ticketed streams, but everything else we've talked about is
Speaker 4: completely free.
Speaker 2: And let's have the website one more time, the most
Speaker 2: important part of our conversation. We've had a lot of
Speaker 2: fun telling people what they are going to see, How
Speaker 2: can they make sure they get there? What is the website?
Speaker 4: They can just go to coolidge dot org, slash Outdoors perfect.
Speaker 2: And we are exactly finished, almost to the second of
Speaker 2: where where we were supposed to finish. And we got
Speaker 2: a lot in, which is great. We got a lot in.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Dan Oh my pleasure. You guys
Speaker 2: are great, great Coolidge Corner Theater. Unbelievable asset to our region.
Speaker 2: And Mark Anastasio, thanks so much, the director of programming
Speaker 2: at the Coolidge Corner Theater. We will talk to her again. Thanks,
Speaker 2: my friend. Have a great night. Think I lost him there?
Speaker 2: Did we lose them? I guess we did. Okay. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: is one of those days should be on your calendar.
Speaker 2: It's National Donut Day, and we're going to celebrate it
Speaker 2: in advance. No, we can't give you any donuts over
Speaker 2: the radio. No, that's not possible. However, the Salvation Army
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts we'll be delivering donuts to police, fire and
Speaker 2: veterans across the state. Lucky people on Friday, June sixth,
Speaker 2: which of course is also also the anniversary of the
Speaker 2: D Day invasion from nineteen forty four. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: be talking with Captain Bree Barker of the Salvation Army
Speaker 2: in Cambridge, and we're going to talk about National Donut Day.
Speaker 2: For me, every day is National don't Day. I only
Speaker 2: get it coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, as they mentioned earlier, tomorrow is the day that
Speaker 2: is marked on my calendar every year, one of the
Speaker 2: great holidays in America, National Donut Day. It also happens
Speaker 2: to be on the anniversary of the D Day Invasion.
Speaker 2: And no, the D Day Invasion was not named for
Speaker 2: the for the word donut day at all. Let's let's
Speaker 2: first of all eliminate that with me. Is Captain Bree Barker.
Speaker 2: She's with the Salvation Army in Cambridge and you, Captain Barker,
Speaker 2: welcome to Nightside. First of all, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great. I'm trying to stay cool.
Speaker 2: It really is, isn't it. Yeah, it's it was a hot.
Speaker 5: Day to day and you guys, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: You got a big job in front of you tomorrow. Now, look,
Speaker 2: we've never talked before as far as I'm as far
Speaker 2: as I know, correct.
Speaker 4: Correct, yep, okay, And I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to be impertinent because I have to ask you
Speaker 2: a very awkward question, even though this is a conversation.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite donut? Oh?
Speaker 5: My favorite donut. It's hard to pick just one, but
Speaker 5: I love a blueberry donut.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's excellent. I'm a glaze stick guy from duncan myself,
Speaker 2: and I'm not even sure if a glaze stick qualifies
Speaker 2: as a donut.
Speaker 5: So I might you know what, We're open to all
Speaker 5: kinds of donuts.
Speaker 2: Well I am as well. Trust me this never I've
Speaker 2: never really had a donut that I didn't like. So
Speaker 2: tell us about is this an annual effort by the
Speaker 2: Salvation Army and is it being done justin Cambridge? You're
Speaker 2: across the commonwealth. Tell us the extent of this effort.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this has been going on since nineteen thirty eight,
Speaker 5: when the Salvation Nowmy established National Old Donut Day. And
Speaker 5: so it doesn't just happen in Cambridge, Boston or Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: That happens all over the nation. And so we are
Speaker 5: excited to celebrate the donut I mean every day, but
Speaker 5: specifically on Donut Day.
Speaker 2: Okay, So for example, now give us an idea about
Speaker 2: how many different locations will the Salvation Army in Cambridge
Speaker 2: cover tomorrow. You've got fire stations, police stations. I know
Speaker 2: that firefighters and police officers and people joke about it,
Speaker 2: but the reason that they love donuts is because you
Speaker 2: know they never know where they're going to be called
Speaker 2: into action. When you get a chance to have a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee and a donut, particularly in the winter time.
Speaker 2: You can't say no. I mean I found that out
Speaker 2: many Yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's very true.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we are delivering donuts all over tomorrow, but also
Speaker 5: we are doing programs with the children that are in
Speaker 5: our place, our daycare for children experiencing homelessness. We're doing
Speaker 5: donuts and our men to drop in shelter. In fact,
Speaker 5: for those that are going to be in the Dorchester area,
Speaker 5: the Boston Croc, the Salvation Army is Boston Kroc will
Speaker 5: be doing a drive through starting at nine am. So
Speaker 5: get your free donuts, get your sugar fixed for the day.
Speaker 2: Where do you do that? I mean, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go over there myself, but where's that location for people?
Speaker 5: Yeah, give it to us again it is sure. It's
Speaker 5: six point fifty Dudley Street in Dorchester. So that's the
Speaker 5: Salvation Army's Boston Croc center. And so starting at nine am,
Speaker 5: they'll be doing a drive through and then also delivering
Speaker 5: around town with our Emergency Disasters vehicle, so area police
Speaker 5: area fire stations. You know, we want to make sure
Speaker 5: everyone has access to a sweet treat tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So here's the question, how many donuts And I hate
Speaker 2: to quantify this, but how many hundreds or thousands of
Speaker 2: donuts do you think the Salvation Army will be delivered
Speaker 2: tomorrow in honor of National Donant Day?
Speaker 5: You know, if I could, yeah, if I could count
Speaker 5: the grains of sand, you know, I think it might
Speaker 5: come close. Thousands and thousands across not just Massachusetts but
Speaker 5: the US. And in fact, the Donut Lassies that were
Speaker 5: kind of celebrating as well tomorrow, they made up to
Speaker 5: nine thousand doughnuts a day to serve to the troops
Speaker 5: in World War One. So we're hoping to at least,
Speaker 5: you know, come close to their efforts.
Speaker 2: So who's the group that you said that used to
Speaker 2: produce nine thousand donuts a day? What was the group's name?
Speaker 5: So, the Donut Lassies, they were young women who went
Speaker 5: to World War One as volunteers. They were the Salvation
Speaker 5: Army War Service, and they were sent with the direction
Speaker 5: to lift the spirits of the men overseas. And they
Speaker 5: realized pretty quickly that one good way to lift a
Speaker 5: man's spirit is through his stomach. And so they made
Speaker 5: these donuts sweet treats and they served up to nine thousand.
Speaker 5: They were boiling them in some instances in an old
Speaker 5: unused soldiers metal helmets, you know, with basic ingredients. But
Speaker 5: the men would line up because it just brought this
Speaker 5: sweet treat from home and it just helped them there
Speaker 5: to feel loved and careful.
Speaker 2: Well, that's probably where the phrase an army travels on
Speaker 2: its stomach arose.
Speaker 4: From, because it could be right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what'd you call him? The laffies l A
Speaker 2: F f e ys?
Speaker 4: Was that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I ees donut lassies Laffi's.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like that. It almost sounds like that might
Speaker 2: have been a British term. Or am I imagining things?
Speaker 5: I would say, so misamisnami started in England in eighteen
Speaker 5: sixty five, and so I think some of those words
Speaker 5: are transferred over.
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, see, now we're getting a little bit of
Speaker 2: the history. I did not realize to be I thought
Speaker 2: I knew a lot about the Salvation Army. But it
Speaker 2: started in England, jolly olding in eighteen sixty five. And
Speaker 2: when did it emigrate across the pond.
Speaker 5: As we would say, you know, fairly quickly in the
Speaker 5: grand scheme of things. In eighteen eighty the Salvation Namy
Speaker 5: officially landed in New York at Battery Park, but just
Speaker 5: a few years earlier, actually, I sixteen year old girl
Speaker 5: immigrated here and she kind of started the Salvation Army
Speaker 5: by herself and did such a great job that General
Speaker 5: Booth said, all right, well, I'm sending a troop over
Speaker 5: to get the work officially started in the United States.
Speaker 2: Well that's great, that's great. And how long Captain Barker,
Speaker 2: have you been a member of the Salvation Army.
Speaker 5: I have been working, volunteering and a member of the
Speaker 5: Salvation Army for twenty years. This year this is my anniversary.
Speaker 2: So you're despite the fact that you're obviously an officer,
Speaker 2: you work as a volunteer. Well, thank you for your service,
Speaker 2: especially science, it's a volunteer service. What sort of career
Speaker 2: work do you do? If I could ask it. Don't
Speaker 2: mean to pry or anything like that, but I thought
Speaker 2: that most of the folks who we talked to from
Speaker 2: the Salvation Army of people who were employed by the
Speaker 2: Salvation Army. What sort of work do you do outside
Speaker 2: of your volunteer work for the Salvation Army.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I am an employee of a salvash Namy.
Speaker 5: I'm an officer, which means that I am a pastor
Speaker 5: but also a director of a local location. So for me,
Speaker 5: that's Cambridge. I would actually say, you know, my other
Speaker 5: hat probably would be donut connoisseur. But by my main role, yes,
Speaker 5: is working with a savage nummier. But I started as
Speaker 5: a volunteer and just you know, fell in love with
Speaker 5: the mission and love to just serve others and to
Speaker 5: help people.
Speaker 2: Right and well, Will said, I misunderstood, So I just
Speaker 2: wanted to be clear on that. And I think that
Speaker 2: the second responsibility of a donut connoisseur. If when I
Speaker 2: served in the military, I was called a thirty six
Speaker 2: K twenty, I think that's what was my mos. I
Speaker 2: would have wish there had been a donut connoisseur back
Speaker 2: in the day. I would have been qualified for that,
Speaker 2: even at an early age. Captain Bribon, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Great to chat with you and enjoy the day tomorrow
Speaker 2: and all that it brings. I hope you have great weather.
Speaker 2: I hope it cools off a little bit as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you for what you.
Speaker 2: And the Salvation Army do. It's a great organization.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: We love what we do.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon. All right, we get back on
Speaker 2: the other side. We're going to get to the to
Speaker 2: the issues at hand, and we're going to start off
Speaker 2: with the president's proclamation barring foreign students from attending Harvard University.
Speaker 2: I think he's way over the line on this. Some
Speaker 2: of you will agree, some of you will disagree. Let's
Speaker 2: get the conversation started right after the nine o'clock news