Six Degrees of Separation I was reminded of this theory of interconnectedness today. First put forward by a Hungarian author in 1929, it postulates that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world. Many of you probably know it through that Will Smith movie. In the late seventies, I met Larry Evans, a laid-off steelworker, self-taught writer and all-around rabble rouser who had moved to Pittsburgh PA from his birthplace of Baltimore, MD after a stint as a VISTA volunteer in a Florida migrant camp. When we met, I was a VISTA volunteer working with laid-off steelworkers in Pittsburgh through an Adult Literacy program, while also studying at a local community college. Larry was the founder and guiding light of an innovative worker-writer magazine called the Mill Hunk Herald . Surviving on goodwill, youthful energy, sporadic donations and hard-fought subscriptions, the quarterly magazine came to life on th