Farewell to "The DON"

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · May 20, 2025 · 9m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

I said goodbye to a dear old pal on Sunday. Harvey “The DON” Siegel was one of the first people to truly befriend me when I was young and stupid and on my own in New York City. My first year there I got caught up in a crowd that lived hard and long into the night, courtesy of cocaine and a few other substances that were favored at the time. I loved the drug, a little too much, to tell the truth, but thankfully I hated the life. I did not want to stay up until dawn with a host of folks who had never read Truman Capote. People who had never wept into the pages…