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I participated in the New Milford Monthly Meeting in Connecticut in the early 1970s. After the weekly meetings for worship, some members held weekly meetings for worship for prisoners inside the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution. Others (including me) stood vigil outside the prison. The Danbury prison was home to many war resisters, including brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, who attended the Friends meetings regularly, I think. Indeed I heard later that one of the Quaker elders "smuggled" Daniel's writings out of the prison. I went on a road trip with that elder and her husband. I think we attended the Yearly Meeting somewhere in upstate New York and stopped along the way in Ithaca. We went to a room that had been Daniel Berrigan's office at Cornell University. There may have been another reason for making that stop, but they took me there to show me an artwork hanging on the wall of that office. As I recall, Rev Berrigan counseled a distraught student who ended up taking his own life. The artwork in that office was an image of a whale fashioned out of old wooden window blinds. My memory is that Rev Berrigan created that whale in that student's memory. The blinds may have come from the man's room. I have searched a little and have not found any confirmation of any of this story. Would love more details. Does anybody remember hearing of that whale?