By Michael P. Quinlan, Patriot Ledger For Jim Orcutt, there is a poor side of town everywhere he goes. In frayed apartment buildings, small rooming houses and homeless shelters throughout southeastern Massachusetts he meets people nestled in their worries and fears, barely holding on. Some are filled with quiet desperation or cynical resignation, hovering below the horizon of prosperity that …
"The hard lives of the needy made easier"
By Beverly Beckham, Boston Herald columnist The call to My Brother’s Keeper came a few days before. “What do you need?” Terry Orcutt had asked. That’s what she always says. There are no histories taken. No judgments made. Ask and you shall receive. It’s that simple. The woman needed everything, but she asked only for beds for her three children. …