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The ‘Smell-Prejudiced’ Plumbers

By Melanie Chartoff

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/the_smell_prejudiced_plumbers_20110711

I come from the cutting edge county of New Haven, Connecticut. Sure, our area's best known for patrician, classy old stuff like Yale University, the Shubert Theater, and historical Revolutionary War artifacts all over the place, but In terms of sensationalistic graffiti and verbal bullying, we were waaaay ahead of our time. The West Haven High School halls were trashed with profane etchings the day it opened in 1962, and reputations were ruined in permanent house paints all over the teachers' parking lot in East Haven in ’68. Before the internet made it easy, marriages and futures went up in fumes via the gifted gossip made in rumor mills of “the Havens.”

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