[*BCM*] Trying to write a sweet story

[Basil Sharpe]

I'm hoping to do the ride this Friday night.  How many other people plan
to be there?  

 

Basil

 

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From: bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org
[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org] On Behalf Of
Marc Larocque
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:12 PM
To: list at bostoncriticalmass.org
Subject: [*BCM*] Trying to write a sweet story

 

Hoooowdy yall!

 

Anyways, this is Marc Larocque, again, Northeastern University student
and recently installed co-op for the City Weekly section at the Boston
Globe. I just saw an article recently published in the Daily Free Press
("Taking back the streets," Dec. 5, 2007) about Critical Mass. That's a
shame. I wanted to be the first journalist to it in Boston to write a
story about it. Anyways, I'm still trying to do it. But I'm going to do
it differently. I'm going to join you guys on the next ride. I have
anecdotes from previous rides from other people. I have some history. I
have characters. I'm going to use chronology and narrative. Though I
still have a lot of research to do (for instance: I need to find out how
many people in Boston have died from cars, and how many injured within
different frames of time). I hope it's fun and many people show even
though their might be snow. It's an interesting angle that there are a
lot of students participating, hopefully someone could give me comment
on that. 

 

But I don't have the history of how the Boston chapter of Critical Mass
was initiated. It'd be so great if someone would come forth and
enlighten me in an interview. In the Daily Free Press, it was reported
that "since its establishment in 1992, Critical Mass has had no official
organizers or participants, according to its website. The movement was
born from a small group of people who wanted to ride with a message, and
word-of-mouth eventually brought the practice to other neighboring
cities. Today, many cyclists even refuse to call the movement a type of
organization." 

 

I'd like to see if this is true. And when did the Boston group
substantiate.

 

And now it occurs to me that the New Yorker magazine wrote an article in
2006 about the overall group and how it started in San Fran., a big
thing for it was the RNC in NYC. But I want to write about the Boston
Critical Mass. What's cool about the Boston Critical Mass. 

Thanks to whoever could help, I just want to get it right.

 

Marc Larocque

Fledgling Journalist

Northeastern University

Boston Globe

508 692 8164

larocque.m at neu.edu



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