because of how erratically Lennon was acting. “I was about to walk into the nadir of the Lost Weekend, John’s rock bottom,” Mintz wrote in his book We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me.

By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse. Walk, don’t run.” ...

where John Lennon once stayed, and said: "The walls are bowing and there are cracks in the building. Window frames are falling out, the floors are too dangerous to walk on and the place is full of ...