The Green Box

by James F. Murphy, Jr.

Overview

77-year-old Bill Sullivan, on a whim, drove through Newton, Mass. and stopped at Boyd Park to visit the Green Box.

It was there, while WWII raged in Europe and the Pacific, that Sully and his friends waited eagerly for the park instructor to open the Green Box to the treasures of baseballs, gloves, bats, board games and a vast assortment of gems.

The Green Box was the meeting place where lessons were learned about prejudice, justice, life, death and the pain of first love lost.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016319711
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	765 KB

About the Author

James F. Murphy, Jr. is a former high school English teacher and Boston College professor of literature and creative writing, retiring in 2009 after 51 years in education.

Many of the events in The Green Box were inspired by his childhood in Newton, Massachusetts. He originally wrote it as a short story, which appeared in Yankee magazine in 1972.

Mr. Murphy is a graduate of Our Lady's Help of Christians High School in Newton. He graduated from Boston College in 1958 with a B.A. in English. He went on to earn his M. Ed. from Framingham University, followed by an M.A. in English and Theater from Northeastern University. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Aberdeen, Scotland from 1965-66, and a Whiting Scholarship to lecture at Dublin City University in 1990.

His published novels include Quonsett, Nightwatcher, The Mill, and They Were Dreamers. A combat veteran of the Korean War, his essay Freedom Village was chosen as the lead story in Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul. It also appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Older Wiser -- Our 101 Best Stories.

Mr. Murphy and his wife, Margaret, who reside in Falmouth Heights on Cape Cod, have six children and two grandchildren.