Dougherty says he had no idea he would be able to sell so successfully.

"I took 50 of the papers," he remembers, smiling. "And I sold them in only an hour."

Dougherty says he not only gets dollars and cents from his job, but also personal recognition.

"I ran across a lot of people I never thought I'd meet, like mayors, professors and members of city hall," he says. "And they all say to me--you're an all right person."

"Cambridge has been good to me for a lot of years," Dougherty continues. "It opened its arms to me, let me be myself and accepted me."

Behind the Scenes

Larson, too, has journeyed a long way to get to where she is today.

When she walks down the stairs of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church to her basement office, where she spends the day surrounded by papers, potential stories and colleagues, she says she feels privileged.