Memories and Memoirs
Members of The Group School (TGS) community continue to write about their experiences during their years at TGS. This collection within the website contains excerpts from memoirs, poems, and other forms of expression that TGS community members are using to reflect on those times.
The Buffalo Sequence (poetry); Thoughts on poetry (essay)
by Mark Pawlak
Inspired by his first years working at The Group School, this collection of five poems and an essay on poetry by Mark Pawlak explore this own working-class roots in Buffalo, NY. (See Mark’s memoir, Reeducation: The Group School, 1971-74; 1976-79.)
I remember the day (a poem in process)
by John Sullivan
Composed by John Sullivan, an early TGS student, prior to a TGS Zoom reunion call in 2023, these stanzas offer a window into his experience of growing up in the Jefferson Park Housing Project in Cambridge, MA, where he and many other TGS students lived.