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BackCAST Cape Ann LGBTQ Series Episode 5: Charles Nazarian

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Episode Notes for Charles Nazarian

Charles Nazarian provides a fascinating glimpse into the personal and the historical gay community on Cape Ann.

  • Finding Cape Ann as a young man in his 20s, Charles moved here to take a job with Charles Fisk and the CB Fisk organ company.
  • He remembers the gay liberation movement of the 1960s.
  • Charles is a historian and provides a fascinating account of John (Jack) Hays Hammond, Jr., who built Hammond Castle, and the Hammond family; Henry Sleeper; A. Piatt Andrew; and Leslie Buswell who owned Stillington Hall in Gloucester.
  • Charles tells one of his favorite Cape Ann party stories about the old Rockaway Hotel.
  • And, Charles shares a moving personal story about a friend who died from AIDS.
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