DORIS CORRIGAN
For over 40 years, Mae Doris Corrigan was the go-to person in Chelsea for neighborhood advocacy, progressive causes and Reform Democratic Party organization. She died at The Amsterdam Nursing Home on July 23, at the age of 87.
One of many who reached out to Chelsea Now upon receiving news of Corrigan’s passing, former New York State Senator Tom Duane recalled her as “committed, fiery when necessary, energetic, thoughtful, a leader by example,” speculating with confidence that she is now “organizing her angel colleagues in heaven.”
A public memorial service will be held Sun., Oct. 4, at 2 p.m. at the Hudson Guild Elliott Center (441 W. 26th St. btw. Ninth & Tenth Aves.).
BILL KUSHNER
Chelsea Community Church (CCC) will celebrate the life of New York School poet Bill Kushner. Born in the Bronx in 1931, he was a long-time resident of Chelsea and a member of CCC.
Among Kushner’s books are “Night Fishing” (1980), “He Dreams of Waters” (2000), “In Sunsetland with You” (2007) and “Walking After Midnight” (2011). Publishers Weekly praised Kushner for taking “the New York School aesthetic back to its rich gay roots; his Chelsea-based speaker comments on everything from sexy muscled passers-by, late night tricks and imaginary giraffes drinking blue oceans in a family room. But above all, Kushner is a master poet of loneliness, casting it in a cool, benevolent, magical light, evoking childhood (years when most sleep alone) and lunar spaces where the laws of the earth do not apply.”
A public memorial service will be held on Fri., Oct. 2, at 6 p.m. at St. Peter’s Chelsea (346 W. 20th St. btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.).
