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PORTSIDE CULTURE

EVELYN HUTCHINS  
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Peter Neil Carroll
February 1, 2024
Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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_ Saturday May 4 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) honors
the memory of the US volunteers of the Spanish Civil War by awarding
the ALBA-Puffin Human Rights Award to “18by Vote.” _

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Evelyn Hutchins

1910-1982

It was her idea. Her husband rushed

to Spain. Her brother had joined him.

She wanted to go, too. Men held her back.

Some thought a woman at war was funny.

_I was a girl, I was small, didn’t weigh _

_much. They were satisfied I could handle _

_the cars. I wanted to be there, close as I _

_could to the fighting. I went there to drive. _

She had a tough job double-clutching 

trucks, scary, under attack night and day,

many narrow escapes—bombs, artillery,

bad drivers, pot holes, ditches.

She had nightmares—driving downhill,

brakes failing, crashes, fire, explosions.

_Then I’d wake up in a cold sweat—but _

_lots of things are worse than dreams. _

She clung to one immodest confession:

_I have never lost my nerves, yet…._

She also had one request for a reporter—

_Don’t laugh, even if it does sound cuckoo. _

_Some night, go down to Chinatown, down _

_to one of those really good Chinese restaurants, _

_order a big bowl of Chinese soup. And when _

_you eat, think of me for just a minute._

Peter Neil Carroll’s new collection is Sketches From Spain: Homage
to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Main Street Rag Publications, 2024).
Evelyn Hutchins drove trucks and ambulances during the Spanish Civil
War.

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