Adrienne Reedy

‘We Have Work To Do’: Community Gathers for Stirring Service Honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Rev. Adrienne Reedy was a seven-year-old girl at home waiting for her favorite show, “Bewitched,” to come on the TV the night that a news reporter interrupted to tell the nation that Martin Luther King had been shot and killed. Her father was stoical, sitting up straight and “showing absolutely no emotion,” Reedy recalled Monday morning. Her mom was out grocery shopping but when she came home “it was the complete opposite,” Reedy told more than 150 people gathered at United Methodist Church of New Canaan for an annual celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“She was frantically crying as she busted through the door shouting, ‘Calvin! Oh Lord, no! They’ve killed him!