Claude Purdy's Little Brothers Of The Poor

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In 1978, August moved to Minnesota after careful consideration from his friend Claude Purdy, who lived there. He secured a job writing educational scripts for the 'Science Museum of Minnesota. He quit his museum job in 1981 after a year before being offered a fellowship for ‘The Playwrights Centre’ which was located in Minneapolis. For another three years, Wilson worked as a part-time cook at the ‘Little Brothers of The Poor’. He had a long-term relationship with the ‘Penumbra Theatre Company’ of St. Paul, they even premiered some of his future plays. This included his writings of ‘Fullerton Street’ which had been unpublished but performed in 1980. It was a depiction of the boxing fight of Joe Louis and Billy Conn in 1940. In 1987 St Paul's

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