Mom taught me to hope, and to ask ‘why not us?’
Guest Columnist
Marvin Stockwell
Marvin Stockwell is host of the Champions of the Lost Causes podcast on the Back to theLight network. Episodes are at backtothelight.net and on most podcast platforms. For more information, visit championsofthelostcauses.org.
The Stockwell and Abbott families started a Downtown lunch spot 40 years ago that inspired a son’s lifelong belief in city-building: ‘Nine-year-old me didn’t doubt Downtown could rally, because I had seen my own family do it.’
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