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University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Collection: SC-0001 University Archives and Special Collections Joseph P. Healey Library University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, Massachusetts 02125 [email protected] JACK POWERS COLLECTION 1947-2001, bulk 1965-1979 Accession Number: 080-01; 081-02; 095-06; 096-02; 108-03; 111-07 Repository: University of Massachusetts Boston. University Archives and Special Collections Creator: Jack Powers Title: Jack Powers collection Date [inclusive]: 1947-2001; bulk 1965-1979 Extent: 40 linear feet (thirty-two record cartons, one document case, two half document cases, twelve oversize folders, five flat boxes) Language: English Citation: Courtesy of the University Archives and Special Collections Department, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston: Jack Powers collection. Processing Information: Initially processed by Elizabeth Mock with finding aid reviewed by Catherine Shaw, September 2012. Reviewed and processed by Meghan Bailey, Faith Plazarin, and Abigail Austin, October 2018. Conditions on Use and Access: This collection is open for research. Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply. PROVENANCE This collection was donated to University Archives and Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston by Jack Powers in February 1980 (080- 01), May 1981 (081-02), July 1995 (095-06), and February 1996 (096-02). Additional materials were donated by Julie Stone in May 2008 (108-03) and by Anna Warrock in June 2011 (111-07). ARRANGEMENT AND PROCESSING NOTES This collection arrived with little to no original order. Some arrangement and processing decisions were made initially by the first processor and a general inventory was created. The following processers constructed a much more organized arrangement and detailed finding aid. Duplicates and personal information, such as bank and medical records were removed. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Jack Powers was born in Boston, September 13, 1937. The oldest of six children, Powers grew up in and around housing projects in Roxbury and graduated from Cathedral High School in the South End (1). A semester studying chemical engineering at Northeastern University was enough to show him his path lay elsewhere (1). At the age of 21, Powers traveled to California, University of Massachusetts Boston University Archives and Special Collections Finding Aid Collection: SC-0001 Powers spent time in San Francisco, and returned to New England to write about sports for a New Hampshire newspaper (1). In 1960, he moved back to Boston where he settled on Beacon Hill. While working in an antiquarian bookshop called Goodspeeds he launched a life of social activism. Powers, a poet, social activist, and resident of Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, was a leader in community, cultural, alternative, ecological, and political affairs. Powers taught remedial reading at the Columbia Point housing project, cooked free suppers for the elderly, organized free concerts on Boston Common, and was an urban gardener. The following are highlights of some of Power’s work. Please see his biographical files in the collection for a complete resume. In 1971 on Beacon Hill, Powers founded Stone Soup, a gallery and poetry society that promoted weekly evening poetry readings, supported and published writers under Stone Stoup Press, and produced video production for Cambridge Cable Television (CCTV). The gallery held not only art and poetry events, but jazz and folk concerts, meetings for groups like the Mental Patients Liberation Front, and lectures by a variety of people including Barney Frank. The society’s home began at the Hill House, a community center on Beacon Hill and moved to the Charles Street Meeting House in 1979. It has called home several locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Green Street Grill, TT the Bear’s, and Out of the Blue Art Gallery, eventually moving back to Beacon Hill at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The society remains active as of 2018. Powers worked for the Mayor’s Office of Business and Cultural Development from 1985-1993 during the Raymond Flynn administration. His roles at the Mayor’s Office included Director of Mayor’s Business to the Neighborhood Resource Bank, Facilities Director for concerts on the Boston Common, Poetry Coordinator for events in Boston, City Hall Coordinator for the Campaign for Caring, and Boston Coordinator for Earth Day. Powers founded and was involved in a number of organizations throughout Boston. He was founder and director of the Beacon Hill Free School, a school that provided weekly courses from 1970-1978, co-founder and project director of the Boston Urban Gardeners and the Christian A. Herter Center, and was director and organizer of the Beacon Hill Support Group for Peace in Vietnam. Powers was organizer and director of the Columbia Point Food Coop on Columbia Point from 1967-1969. The coop had a membership of fifty families before being absorbed by A.B.C.D. He was the founder and director of the Poetry Mobile a program conducted during Boston’s Summerthing event, and founder, director, and cook of the Stone Soup Supper at the Hill House, a community center on Beacon Hill. The supper was a project that fed senior citizens from the Beacon Hill and West End area. Powers received many awards for his work from various groups including the Massachusetts Halfway Houses, Inc., in 1989, the J.F.K. Library Corps in 1987, the Northeast Veterans’ Outreach Center in 1990, the Boston Urban Gardeners in 1986, the Long Island Shelter in 1989. 2 | Contact: [email protected] University of Massachusetts Boston University Archives and Special Collections Finding Aid Collection: SC-0001 Powers In 1987, Mayor Raymond Flynn, declared a Jack Powers Day. Powers passed away in October of 2010. SOURCE 1. Holder, Douglas. “Poet Jack Powers/ Founder of the Stone Soup Poets.” Poet Jack Powers/ Founder of the Stone Soup Poets, 1 Jan. 2011, jackpowerspoet.blogspot.com. SCOPE AND CONTENT This collection documents Powers’ work and interests, particularly Stone Soup, the Beacon Hill Free School and the Free School Movement, Beacon Hill Support Group for Peace in Vietnam (which published Press for Peace), the Columbia Point Food Coop, and the Boston Urban Gardeners. Both Stone Soup’s organizational records and event information is in the collection and included correspondence with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Robert Bly who also participated in readings at Stone Soup. The collection includes documents on Powers’ role as a Special Projects Coordinator for the Mayor’s Office of Business and Cultural Development. Materials from the mayor’s office document the extensive number of events he coordinated. Event resources related to Powers’ interests and Boston activities can be found throughout the majority of the collection. In series VII, both subseries ii and iii have a mix of correspondence, event fliers, and planning documents. Paper record types include resumes, office records, assorted organizational records and resources, newspaper clippings, articles and copies, publications such as newsletters and magazines, drawings, posters, flyers, stickers, and poetry from a variety of poets (including Powers). The collection includes ephemera such as t-shirts and patches, as well as media including VHS tapes, cassettes, and photographs. The collection includes one DVD, 167 audiocassettes tapes, 437 videotapes and some papers related to their content. The 48 composites made by Tom Blue (1987-1989) are housed in white plastic boxes with the original drawings removed from the cover for preservation. A list of the included poets is usually written on the videotape or on a piece of paper in the box. There is also a list, which Blue compiled, of the original tapes; it includes an index to many (perhaps all) of the poets who spoke between 1987 and 1989. The edited videotapes that appeared on Cambridge Cable TV (CCTV) usually have the main readers written on the box, along with the date of the reading; sometimes the date indicates when the show aired (a few days later). Each evening, Jack Powers made a list of all of the poets who read, in order. These slips of paper and the lists made by Julie Stone, photocopies of which appear in this collection, serve both as an index to the videotapes and as documentation of the variety of poets who have participated in the Monday night series. RELATED MATERIALS The following source provides additional information related to Powers and his work: Boston Urban Gardeners records, 1891-2004, bulk 1976-1989 3 | Contact: [email protected] University of Massachusetts Boston University Archives and Special Collections Finding Aid Collection: SC-0001 Powers SERIES OUTLINE This collection is arranged in ten series, of which Series VII and Series X has been further arranged in subseries. The series and subseries arrangement of the records is as follows: Series I. Biographical Papers, 1972-1994 Series II. Beacon Hill Free School, 1970-1977 Series III. The Free School Movement, 1969-1979 Series IV. Beacon Hill Support Group, 1969-1972 Series V. Boston Mayor’s Office Records, 1960-1995 Series VI. Boston Activities, 1953-1999 Series VII. Stone Soup Society, 1947-1995 Subseries i. Administrative Records, 1974-1994 Subseries ii. Correspondence, 1962-1995 Subseries iii. Event Planning, Calendars, and Flyers, 1970-1995 Subseries iv. Collected Poems and Poet Files, 1968-1995 Subseries v. Publications, 1947-1995 Series VIII. Journals and Notebooks, 1963-1991 Series IX. Ephemera, 1969-1990 Series X. Audio and Visual Materials, 1963-2001 Subseries i. Photographs and Negatives, 1963-1993 Subseries ii. VHS Tapes, 1984-2001 Subseries iii. Audiotapes, 1974-1980 CONTAINER LIST SERIES I. Biographical papers, 1972-1994 Box: 1 1. Jack Powers [articles], 1974-1975 2. [Loose resumes, bios, recommendations], circa 1979-1990 3. Articles and clippings about Jack Powers or “Stone Soup”, 1974-1993 4. Articles and Clippings about Jack Powers, 1974-1991 5. Jack Powers resumes, circa 1993 6.
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