The Boston Globe, April 1st, 1990
Terry Hemingway, 35, is a student at the University of Rochester now, but three years ago he was working in a dowel mill in Maine for $5 an hour, reading on his lunch hour and after work, not just the daily paper but Dostoevski and Tolstoy and Milton and Tennyson. His fellow millworkers did not seem to resent his intellectual interests, because, for one thing, Hemingway is a quiet man who carries no pretense and steps softly when he walks. He reads quickly and without effort, so that if someone at lunch in the mill said something that interested him, he could drop his book and join the convers...
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