Have fond memories of the city of Boston in which I spent a wonderful summer in 1971 when I was 19 years old on Fort Hill in Roxbury.
At the top of the hill, there were all these once elegant stone buildings some of which were occupied by a local cult called the Avatars presided over by a guru named Mel Lyman. The avatars avoided us all because we were unclean. They avoided everybody because everybody was unclean.
I spent the summer eating free government cheese, selling the Boston Phoenix, newspaper, and going to concerts on the Boston Common where I saw Leon Russell, Joan Baez, and the Allman Brothers at a time when Duane Allman and Berry Oakley were still alive. I still hold the city of Boston close to my heart 55 years later.