Port Townsend: Boiler Room discussions revolve around personal freedoms and Dr. King"s `dream"
LUKE BOGUES
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But he admitted that the slain civil rights leader did it better.
Personal freedoms were a hot topic among Rotuno and a dozen other people sitting around The Boiler Room youth center in Port Townsend on Monday night as Martin Luther King Day waned.
Gay and lesbian rights, freedom of speech, sexism and racism, were highlights of conversations over cups of coffee while lounging on couches.
Adults sat side-by-side with teenagers at the non-profit youth center in the heart of uptown Port Townsend
Words by African American poets like Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes were intermixed with the prose of King.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday's Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.
Last modified: January 19. 2004 9:00PM