William S. Cohen Papers | Cohen’s Hancock Street

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The corner of Hancock and Essex Streets in Bangor, Maine
House at corner of Hancock and Essex Streets in Bangor, Maine.
Handwriting from the back of the photograph
Written in handwriting on the back of this photograph
is the phrase, "Hancock Street 'Birth House.'"

Cohen's introduction to the poem "Hancock Street" began:
"I was born August 28, 1940, in a three-story apartment house in Bangor, Maine. The second of three children, all born in our mother's bed--whether out of economy or general fear of hospitals, I don't know."

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