Anita M. Harris

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THE VIEW FROM THIRD STREET: A young reporter’s search for love and truth at a time of tumultuous change.
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Anita  M Harris is an author, photographer and communications consultant  based in  Cambridge, Massachusetts. She’s won numerous awards as a journalist and consultant; has taught at Harvard, Yale, Simmons and Tufts Universities; and she blogs at New Cambridge Observer . She can frequently be seen running around Fresh Pond or on the Charles River. Anita especially enjoys art, music, nature and….shopping! She is not to be confused with the British Rock star by the same name…nor with the Australian feminist author! Full bio

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THE VIEW FROM THIRD STREET
A young journalist’s search for love and truth at a tumultuous time of change.

As a fledgling reporter in the early 1970s, author Anita M. Harris and college friends helped found a small newspaper on Third Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Harrisburg Independent Press (AKA “HIP) was first conceived to report on the Trial of the Harrisburg Seven– in which anti-Vietnam War nuns and priests were accused of conspiring to kidnap Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger and blow up underground heating tunnels in Washington, DC. (True story!) Like the many other underground and alternative newspapers of the day, HIP covered civic, consumer, national and international issues–many with parallels in the unrest we are experiencing today.

In this unconventional memoir, Harris traces, from the point of view of Ani, her 23-year-old self, the  founding of the newspaper, the trial, and the devastating Flood of 1972, which left 124 people dead. Interwoven, with humor and puzzlement, are stories of Ani’s love relationship, her coverage of poverty and social injustice, and HIP”s reporting on topics ranging from dirty movies to slave labor, heroin sales, racial discrimination; a burgeoning feminist movement, abortion rights and opposition to the Vietnam War. 

The book includes images and cartoons– highlighting the spirit and energy of those amazing times.

Harris, who went on to write for Newsday and MacNeil Lehrer (now the NewsHour) of PBS, says she hopes the book will increase understanding of women’s changing roles, journalism, and how individuals impact and are impacted by the clashing forces of history. But, mainly, she hopes readers will enjoy the tale.

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Anita’s other nonfiction books include Broken Patterns: Professional Women and the Quest for a New Feminine Identity, Ithaca Diaries, The Art of Sara Richman Harris, and Pandemic Journey. The forthcoming Philadelphia Stories, an immediate sequel to Ithaca Diaries, is about Anita’s adventures her first year out of college. More information

PHOTOGRAPHY: Anita’s photos have been exhibited and sold in shops, galleries, libraries, and universities. Her latest photobook, “Pandemic Journey: Beauty Amidst the Ruins (Harvard Square, December 2020)” was on view in the Fall of 1921 at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson New York and at the Griffin Museum in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 2022. For copies please contact us.

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CONSULTING: Anita has won many awards for her work as a communications consultant in health, science and technology. More information