A Labor of a Supreme Love

Steve Fulgoni, President of Friends of The Coltrane Home, would not be able to take on the endeavor of saving the Home by himself. Despite his ingenuity and passion for taking on such a daunting grassroots project, it would take an assemblage of remarkable individuals to help others understand why the Home was so important. With an established idea of what the future could hold for the Home in his mind, Fulgoni started to build important connections. Various news and media outlets began to hear of the developments taking place at the Home and wanted to feature the endeavors as proper news articles and interviews. Local Long Island papers, the New York Daily News, and magazines such as JazzTime featuring writer Stanely Crouch, began reporting on the status of the Dix Hills Coltrane Home and its risk of being demolished. As people read the articles, they shared them with friends who could potentially provide help. This made the initial local reach of the reports go far beyond New York State. Fulgoni started to receive messages from supporters from all over the world. He then began to rally support through emails from people expressing their opposition to the Home’s demolition. Supporters in all states and countries attested that the Home held immense historical value, and how it would be an absolute tragedy to destroy it.