‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Larry Levanthal April 28, 1941- January 17, 2017 The Cosmos has Grown by One More Star
BY LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK Larry Leventhal died on January 17, 2017 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was a well-known attorney who represented people who had been wronged in some way, and he also wrote wills and in the case of my family, represented us in juvenile court as we undertook the adoption of our great grandchild. In contrast to this kind of work, he took on some of the most formidable opponents imaginable, including the United States government. During his 50-year career in the practice of law, he focused much of his time on the legal affairs of tribal nations and American Indian nonprofit organizations. During the course of the history of the Indian Education Act, passed in 1972 and released for grantmaking in 1973, Larry represented and assisted numerous schools and tribal nations. Although both Heart of the Earth Survival School and the Red School House are no longer operating, he assisted both with research on changes in the regulations affecting [...]
Mending Wall
“”¦Before I built a wall I”'d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn”'t love a wall”¦” From "Mending Wall" BY ROBERT FROST
