Tucked into a home on Stockton Street in Codman Square, Dorchester, Julie sat on the bed with three-month old Dan and leveled with Jack: she wanted to move back to the land.

Jack had, by this time, founded a cooperative game design company called Future Pastimes, later and Eon Products (which would go on to publish the games Cosmic Encounter and Dune, a board game based in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi universe) and was working as an organizer in Boston on policy issues like the bottle bill and progressive approaches to energy rates that would protect low-income residents.

“Jack was always the policy organizer, and I was always the street organizer, the grassroots door-to-door kind of organizer,” explained Julie, who had continued to work one day a week for Somerville United Neighborhoods (SUN) with her organizing friend Lew Finfer after starting to have children. Lew was the former roommate of Jack Kittredge who was responsible for Julie’s first encounter with Jack over the breakfast orange (to read that story, please see our first installment in this series). Julie’s job with SUN was to walk the neighborhood with SUN organizers as a “low paid consultant” who were organizing door-to-door for neighborhood issues impacting working class people, and occasionally for state and national campaigns according to coalition priorities.