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Lighting The Lamps Is About Growing Up Poor In New York City In The '20S And '30S With A Scottish-Born Mother Who Took In Illegal Immigrant Boarders And A Father Who Came Up From A Southern Chain-Gang. It'S About Getting Polio Yet Participating Fully In The Tenement And Street Life Of The Depression; Encountering The Desert Experience In Many Nyc Faith Communities; And Meeting Extraordinary People Through A Great Variety Of Jobs (From The Days When A Skilled Buildings-Engineer Supervisor Might Be Illiterate And Manual Labor Included Amazing Feats Of Skill).