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July 9 – 23, 2012

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Intro:

The Longest Day of the year

by Jeff Harder

Did you know that June 20, 2012, was the longest day of the year? Dan Cutrona knows. Ian Sullivan knows. James Joiner knows. And after experiencing most of the daylight from the first 24 Hour Photo Enduro, that fact will remain tattooed on my brain.

Dan told me about the concept of the Photo Enduro the day before: join up with two other photographers and shoot every town on Cape Cod in the span between 9 a.m. on June 20 and 9 a.m. on June 21. That it took place on the longest day of the year was pure coincidence. The whole thing might have been a quixotic journey had it been more clearly defined. Instead, it was a half-formed idea. But what better day to come along and watch it take shape?

I knew Dan – among other things, he photographed my wedding. I met the others for the first time at his studio the next morning. There was James, a skater kid all grown up who hits the brakes on his Subaru Forester a few seconds later than would be my preference. There was Ian, proprietor of the Underground Bakery in Dennis with his brain encased in a fedora. All three had a professional or personal passion for photography. All three were wearing articles of plaid clothing. I can’t take a decent picture, and I was dressed in solids.

But in the span of a few hours, I found out that even though I didn’t necessarily know them, I missed hanging out with these dudes. Between the Vagrant Records soundtrack, sophomoric jokes, and occasionally peeing in places that didn’t have toilets, the day was a reminder of aimless summer drives with high-school friends. Can’t say I ever remember hauling thousands of dollars worth of cameras in the trunk though.

From Water Street in Woods Hole to Commercial Street in Provincetown, Craigville Beach to the Wellfleet Town Pier, I watched the pattern repeat whenever they approached a man or woman on the street: before they could decline, they were already hamming it up for the lens, already coming into focus. It was only afterward that they’d ask what the hell a Photo Enduro was. Dan, James, or Ian would give the shorthand description of the undertaking, adding the addendum: Today’s the longest day of the year, too.

That nothing melted was a miracle. Temperatures climbed well past 90 degrees, humid and buggy at night. Every time we climbed back into the Forester, that feeling of sweaty fatigue disappeared in an air-conditioned cocoon.

After a few beers at the Harvest Gallery in Dennis, they dropped me off. I traded the Forester for a bed and a fan on blast while they pressed on. I met up with the trio the next morning after they wrapped things up underneath the Bourne Bridge. All six of their eyeballs looked 75 percent shut. You went out on a high note, Dan said.

The high note actually came much earlier. The Forester headed south from Provincetown, bound for Orleans somewhere around 8 p.m. while Ian’s Golden Hour app ticked away the seconds. That most cliched and most necessary of scenes – the sunset shot – was about to slip away.

We pulled into the Skaket Beach parking lot to find a searing, fluorescent sun dissolving into the haze around it. The sky was the color of a mango smoothie, reducing onlookers to silhouettes. Ian prowled the sandbars, while Dan and James waded further out. I hung back, and an older woman walked toward me gripping a camera. Look at the colors, she said. You couldn’t have painted something this beautiful, she said.

She paused for a moment and her voice dropped slightly. It’s the longest day of the year, she said.

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Converse-ations

by Amanda Converse This July 15th , Shea’s Youth Basketball Association will host its second fundraiser at Trader Eds on Hyannis Marina. It will also mark five years since Shea’s YBA founder, Jonah Shea, became quadriplegic after suffering a spinal injury he sustained from a diving.

Shea’s YBA is a nonprofit organization where the mission is “to provide kids from all over Cape Cod a completely funded basketball league and positive environment to be a part of regardless of the family’s economic situation.”

Jonah came up with the idea for the organization after he had a health scare last summer. His health problems were not new--as there are many sicknesses that accompany his injury--but after a few days of not sleeping, he began to think about the fragility of life--his life, in particular. And it made him want to make a difference in the community and in other people’s lives.

Jonah has coached recreation basketball for years, both before and after his injury. He had long felt that many of the leagues he had coached for in the past didn‘t deliver on the promise to provide a positive experience for all of the players. Jonah thought “we can do better.”

So, he set out to create and organization that brought together two things about which he is passionate-basketball and mentoring kids. It would be a nonprofit organization, committed to giving boys and girls a competitive, fun and fair environment to learn how to play basketball and also how to work with others.

In addition, Jonah has incorporated a tutoring and community outreach element to Shea’s YBA. So, one hour before every game, tutors will be available to all of the players. They will also engage in community outreach projects such as adopting town islands to landscape. Jonah feels “it is very important to help

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mentor these boys and girls into young men and women that can be role models for the kids to follow.”

But Jonah acknowledges that he could not do this without the help of his very supportive friends and family.

One such friend is Stephen Roy, owner of 586 Bistro & Bar and Fresh Ketch in downtown Hyannis. Stephen and Jonah, who became friends their freshman year of high school, have been coaching basketball teams together for two years. When Stephen heard Jonah’s idea, he immediately signed on to help.

They both want to encourage kids and give them a chance to work hard and play hard. As Jonah says, “younger people aren’t salted by society,” and they want to catch them before it could possibly happen.

Jonah believes he is in the perfect position to relate to kids going through a tough time. “I am coming from a hard place,” he says, “it might not be the exact same experience as the kids‘, but I can definitely relate to their struggles in some way.” He wants to show them that there are no limits.

Jonah is a friend to the players, but he also earns their respect so that they will play hard for him. Stephen’s coaching style is a “little more laid back” than Jonah’s, but both of them know that it is not just about scoring; it is about helping the kids to find their value on the team.

The League will launch its first season this November at

the Hyannis Youth and Community Center, with eight teams open to 7th and 8th grade boys.

Jonah and Stephen feel 7th and 8th grade are transition years, when kids are more at risk. But as they raise more money, they will expand the league to include more ages, as well as girls.

In addition to the event on July 15th, Shea’s YBA has a variety of fundraisers planned for the future including a golf tournament and a 5K in September. In its first year, the League will need approximately $40,000 for court time, t-shirts, referees, balls, lawyer fees, computer, projector, signs, flags, marketing materials.

Jonah manages all of the aspects of the organization from his home, and until now, Jonah has been using much of his own money to fund it, as well as applying for grants with local charitable foundations. But he doesn’t mind “putting in the time--it’s for the kids” He has also found that it is for him as well. “When you go through as much negative as I have, you can wake up every day with a negative attitude, but then I began to realize that I can put my energy toward something positive, instead of focusing on my injury.”

And Jonah now knows that without his injury, he would not be able to make the kind of difference that he is sure to make with Shea’s Youth Basketball.

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