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Article: Brother Blue's story lives on for many ; Mourners honor famed storyteller
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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CAMBRIDGE - On a beautiful, color-dappled afternoon, an upbeat
stream of artists, dancers, puppeteers, and storytellers walked into
a North Cambridge funeral home to pay their respects to the man who
lay inside. The deceased wore a blue beret, sported a multicolored
jacket, and rested in a coffin draped with a dazzling covering
featuring a sparkling blue butterfly.
The man was Hugh Morgan Hill, or Brother Blue, a legendary
Cambridge storyteller whose life had touched many with its empathy,
its optimism, its support, and its message of unflagging hope. The
time had come to say goodbye.
Hill, who died Tuesday at 88, was a raconteur for raconteurs. But
his stories, said Hill's friends and ...