Reading with Dale Mitchell

Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow Street, Bangor, Maine, United States

Eleven-year-old Dale Mitchell asked his father, “Why don’t you just get it over with and tell me you hate me?” His father’s response? “I hate you.” Said so matter-of-factly, it seemed hardly worth mentioning. Growing up in strait-laced, lily-white suburbs of the 1950s and early 60s America, Dale Michell was an outsider from the start....