March 14, 2015

Retired Harvard Librarian, Musician, Activist Killed In Cambridge Bicycle Accident


Posted March 11, 2015 8:54 PM ET; Last updated March 14, 2015 9:10 PM ET


The victim of a Wednesday bicycle accident has been identified as Marcia Deihl, 65, a local singer/songwriter and political activist. 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/12/cambridge-songwriter-activist-mourned-after-fatal-bike-accident/715KQNmoGNaEY8ld9BO3XP/story.html#comments

Friends mourn for Cambridge songwriter, activist
By Evan Allen and Peter Schworm
GLOBE STAFF MARCH 12, 2015

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[From article]
At age 102, Marcia Deihl’s mom had fallen in love with a 91-year-old man at their nursing home.
She had spent a week with her mom in January, celebrating her birthday, and watching romance.
“It’s a different sort of love that I see,” she wrote. “So pure, so down-to-the-essence, so dear. It’s what they are, not what they do. It’s eros, not agape.”

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/03/author-who-documented-old-love-dies-young/

Author who documented old love, dies young
 
March 12, 2015, 9:59 AM

Marcia Deihl, 65, of Cambridge was killed after she was hit by a dump truck on Wednesday.
Photo: BETSY SOWERS 




[From article]
Deihl was recently retired as a 30-year employee of Harvard’s Tozzer Library after a long and active history as in cultural and political life – co-founding the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network, sharing a stage with Pete Seeger and notorious as “a convener of Bizarre Song Parties,” as a friend recalled on Deihl’s Facebook page. She had a bachelor’s degree in music history and education from Boston University, a master’s degree in feminism and folk music from the Cambridge-Goddard School for Social Change and a certificate in publishing and communications from Harvard University, according to her website.

http://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/03/11/bicyclist-dies-after-collision-with-truck/comment-page-1/

Singer, activist Marcia Deihl, 65, identified as Cambridgeport bicycle accident fatality
By Marc Levy
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Last revised on: Thursday, March 12, 2015.

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[Tribute from an admirer]
http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/02/13/centenarian-love-kiss-marcia-deihl

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[Marcia Diehl's blog]
http://marcia-mellow-d.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Updated:
Marcia Deihl, 65, was pronounced dead at the scene.
[From article]
A female cyclist was struck and killed by a container truck around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of Allston and Pleasant streets.
The victim, whose name will not be released until next of kin is notified, was pronounced dead at the scene. No charges have been made at this time against the male driver of the truck, who remained at the scene.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150311/NEWS/150318979

By Staff Reports
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Mar. 11, 2015 at 3:11 PM
Updated at 3:37 PM

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