On the 25th "Anniversary" of John Lennon's death.

There is another "Strawberry Fields" out on Long Island, an estate around the North Shore I once went past to investigate an archaeology site with Edward Johanneman, a then Baiting Hollow resident and archaeologist. The site we went to has an interesting story with it, part of it formerly some sort of water-powered factory once. On this other estate are three connected brick "boxes", almost like a small "project" that were built in NYC that I once also lived in in the South Bronx, public housing, provided at a set percentage of one's income then (?). Anyway after this dramatic scenery, they are almost funny, these three connected square brick buildings that are the estate there. They belong to three brothers who run a "social disease" alcohol treatment center in Manhattan, that a famous baseball player once attended according to the newspapers. Anyway, these brothers were once very into partying, drinking perhaps back maybe in Prohibition days, sometimes laws can have the opposite effect. Their father, according to Mr. Johanneman, decided to teach them a lesson and left all his money in some stock, a new business, starting out, that became IBM, International Business Machines. The stocks "split" a number of times, 1 became 5, each one of those, 1 became 4, etc. and the thought "useless stock" became worth quite a bit of money. To show they had "learned their lesson" they began the walk-in clinic in mid-town Manhattan for the treatment of alcoholism, a social disease. Speaking of Long Island, under the "Freedom of Information Act" it was revealed in 1993 or so that the FBI was spying on John Lennon, and one particular "tail" was to Stony Brook University (State University of New York at Stony Brook, SUNY at Stony Brook, where the current fictitious character cited in "Forbes" magazine, "Daddy Warbucks" aged 52, once attended, how I don't know, he's been around since 1924, must have found the "Fountain of Ink") back in the early 1970's and the agent described seeing "hippies and zippies" there. I was in St. James, NY I think when John Lennon was shot with a folk singer friend, who had been visiting with Mrs. Woodie Guthrie who was in a small ground-floor apartment in the Dakota. I think later said she had heard the shots, heard all over the world. They were trying to get some of his writings out.