Photos from Selected Shorts in the Berkshires
By Isaiah ShefferPublished on July 22, 2009
It was raining furiously that day. I was soaked as I transferred from the 6 to the 1 train, all the way from The Bronx to Broadway. Trying to shake off a flu that had kept me at bay for a week already, I came in the office with a voice that shamed any frog. It seemed that the weather and my condition was foreboding the “challenging times” that were part of the discussion of the Development team who met on that gloomy Tuesday morning. This was not my idea of a summer in New York City, but had I to put up with it. After all, this was the first day of my internship at Symphony Space, an opportunity I had been waiting for all year ever since Ken, my professor from far-away Eastern Michigan University, pitched the idea early in the fall.
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Love & Marriage: Can’t I have my cake and eat it too?
By Desma DeitzPublished on July 2, 2009
When you work for a non-profit arts organization and decide to plan a New York City wedding on the cheap, there are really only two ways to make that happen: (A) Ask your boss for the afternoon off and meet your fiancé at City Hall, or, (B) Decide to make Craig of Craigslist your wedding planner and hope for the best. I optimistically chose the latter, and, although there were times I wished I’d opted for door number # 3 and eloped to Vegas, getting married in Prospect Park surrounded by family and friends was the best decision we could have made.
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