Steven Somkin is a produced and award-winning playwright, and a member Plays in Progress(PIP) in Hudson, N.Y. He lives in Lenox and is married to the inimitable Naomi Spatz.
"If one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it — just to stand one minute on God's Earth a free woman."
-- Mum Bett, in Jesse Waldinger's "Mum Bett's Minute"