- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
- 1 Bronx Beginnings
- 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
- 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
- 4 The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets
- 5 The South Bronx by Day and Night
- 6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
- 7 The Rules of the Game
- 8 The Lessons of Sex
- 9 Gains and Losses
- 10 1963 and Me
- 11 What Women Want
- 12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964
- 13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of ′65
- 14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
- 15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin
- 16 Welcome to Hell
- 17 Shifting Loyalties
- 18 The Road to The Tombs
- 19 Do the Crime, Do the Time
- 20 Judgment Day
- 21 Free at Last! Free at Last …
- 22 Cornwall Academy
- 23 Summer Schooling
- 24 Going to College
- 25 College: Round II
- 26 Passage to Europe
- 27 Homecoming
- 28 The Year of the French
- 29 A New Life in Luxembourg
- 30 Finding My Groove
- 31 Standing on Higher Ground
- Acknowledgments
A New Life in Luxembourg
A New Life in Luxembourg
- Chapter:
- (p.173) 29 A New Life in Luxembourg
- Source:
- The Rat That Got Away
- Author(s):
ALLEN JONES
Mark Naison
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter describes the new life for Allen Jones and Connie Boyer in Luxembourg. Connie and Jones found Luxembourg's culture to be different from France's, and they liked it. In more ways than one, they felt right at home. They also were glad to discover that Luxembourgers spoke English. With a population of only 400,000 people and the farm-based economy shifting toward business, good relations with other nations were essential. To help ensure this, the people learned four languages: Luxembourgish, French, German, and English. Playing and coaching with Amicale Steinsel was very different from playing and coaching in France. Most of the players on the team were amateurs; only the coach and the one American player got paid. The team had come in fifth out of twelve teams the year before in the Federation of Luxembourg Basketball, and his job was to take them to a championship.
Keywords: Allen Jones, Connie Boyer, Luxembourg, Amicale Steinsel, Federation of Luxembourg Basketball, championship
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rat That Got Away
- 1 Bronx Beginnings
- 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
- 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
- 4 The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets
- 5 The South Bronx by Day and Night
- 6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the ′60s
- 7 The Rules of the Game
- 8 The Lessons of Sex
- 9 Gains and Losses
- 10 1963 and Me
- 11 What Women Want
- 12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964
- 13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of ′65
- 14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
- 15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin
- 16 Welcome to Hell
- 17 Shifting Loyalties
- 18 The Road to The Tombs
- 19 Do the Crime, Do the Time
- 20 Judgment Day
- 21 Free at Last! Free at Last …
- 22 Cornwall Academy
- 23 Summer Schooling
- 24 Going to College
- 25 College: Round II
- 26 Passage to Europe
- 27 Homecoming
- 28 The Year of the French
- 29 A New Life in Luxembourg
- 30 Finding My Groove
- 31 Standing on Higher Ground
- Acknowledgments
