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John Simon, founder of The DOME Project
(1973)
“Like lemmings to the sea,
our fallen youth parade through the criminal courts in
the most piteous spectacle of urban America. At this last
exit no amount of hand-wringing or flailing against the
unbreakable glass of a flawed society will avail.
Deliverance can only come at the opposite end, at the
commencement of the slide, often in the midst of festering
welfare hotels, collapsing tenements, and rank streets.
In this forbidding landscape, candle in hand, John B.
Simon has worked his miracles of salvation. Puerto Ricans
says, ‘May God pay you.’ For John Simon that
suffices. It is enough to restore your faith.” |
— Edwin Torres, author
of Carlito’s Way and After Hours;
Justice, Supreme Court of the State of New York |
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NOTABLE
To Become Somebody:
Growing Up Against
the Grain of Society
by John Simon, sole founder of The DOME Project in 1973
The most exciting book I have read
in years…” RENE DUBOS,
author of Celebrations of
Life
To learn more about the early years of The DOME Project, stop by for a free copy of TO BECOME SOMEBODY.
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