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By Rob Wolfe

How an International Man of Mystery Scammed My Grandma

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he day before her 91st birthday, my grandmother spent six hours driving between grocery stores in Wilton, Connecticut, wiring money to a man she thought was a crooked cop. She did this on my behalf, in the belief that she was bribing him to get me out of jail. Grandma is still sharp. She reads The Economist and The New Yorker, she has an iPad, she drives on her own, and she even does push-ups, but all of this didn’t stop her from losing $3,000 over the telephone.

Around the time the banks opened that day, my grandmother had just dressed and had her coffee. She was in her kitchen – picture a homey, middle-class affair, where copper pots hang above an island – when the phone rang. It was a number she didn’t recognize. She picked up and a voice said, “Hi, Grandma. You know who this is? It’s your favorite grandson.”

“Robert?” she asked.

“Yes,” he said. “I have a cold – that’s why my voice sounds strange. I need your help.”

He told a meandering story, something about a car, drunk driving, the police.

He had her call the officer in charge, who identified himself as “Donald Green.”

“I can take care of this,” said Green, “so that your grandson doesn’t have anything in writing, in the newspapers, or records, or anything like that. You need to go to the bank and get $3,000. How soon can you go?”

“Well, I’ll throw on my clothes and I’ll go right away.”

Grandma told me afterward that she had feared I was in a cell somewhere in New York City, where I was studying at the time – “God forbid; all the characters that are in these places” – so she immediately got in her car and drove off.

My grandfather died in 2010. He handled the finances. He went to ATMs and put cash in her wallet and paid for gas at the pump. My grandmother was independent before him and now is independent again, but the world has moved on in the meantime. She’s a little hard of hearing, and interjections don’t register with her while she’s speaking. I try to ask if she had been visibly nervous at the bank, but she rides over me.

“So anyway,” she says, “when I got out of the bank I called his number and the first two or three times it wouldn’t go through; said there was technical problems. So then I tried again – and I’m not too great with the phone as you probably know – and I got him this time and he said I was to go to this CVS.” The employees at CVS had never heard of the kind of money order Green wanted my grandmother to send, so she called him again. It was a gray day, with temperatures in the mid-30s, and Grandma was making all of her calls standing just outside her car, afraid that the metal frame would disrupt the signal and thus the rescue mission.

Green picked up.

He directed her to a nearby Walmart and instructed her to call back once she had arrived. Outside the store, he told her to ask for a $2,000 MoneyGram and to say it was going to a family member.

“So I went in and I got it,” Grandma says, “got the money, and I felt the worst part of it all was I had to look them in the eye and lie like a trouper. I was in

such a lather, trying to hurry… He was not very friendly. Just demanding. Not giving me a chance to ask about anything when I was trying to ask about you in the call.” After the Walmart, she went to a Stop & Shop and wired $1,000 more.

Grandma had her doubts. The address Green gave her for the wires was in Tbilisi, Georgia, a place she’d barely heard of. She asked to speak to me, but Green told her, “He’s only allowed one call, and he made that when he talked to you this morning.”

Just before her last transaction, she said to Green, “I don’t know; this looks a bit like a scam.” He assured her that it was not, that the transfers were all for me and that I would have no record afterward.

When she finished that wire, Green told my grandmother to keep her cellular line open for ten minutes, in case he needed to call. She did, but she was suspicious.

At home, using her landline, Grandma called my mother, who gave her my number.

At no point did she mention what she needed it for.

“She didn’t give you up,” says my mom.

“She was still keeping your secret.”

The odyssey of phone calls and wire

transfers began around nine a.m. It was 2:50 p.m., when I, neither in trouble nor in jail, picked up my grandmother’s call.

Soon after, she called my mother back to tell her what had happened, and my mother started calling the wire services to beg them to hold the transfers. Because Green had instructed Grandma to make the transactions in cash, there was nothing they or the bank could do.

LAW ENFORCEMENT officials have been aware of this kind of scam since 2008, but the FBI reports that the attacks have become far more sophisticated with the proliferation of personal information on social media. The FTC has counted more than 40,000 cases since 2010, and in 2011 alone, older Americans lost $110 million to these scams, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Green’s manipulation of my grandmother was masterful. He used her intelligence against her, never mentioning my name or location and instead getting Grandma to fill in the details. When her brain sounded alarm bells, he muffled it by playing on her emotions and reminding her that time was of the essence.

My mother was furious. Even before she called the bank, she called Green, and a man with what sounded like an Eastern European accent picked up.

“A slight [accent], not a really strong one,” my mother recalls.

“He was very suave, you know.

Very cool and very calm. He wouldn’t give me his name. I actually gave him my name after a few back-and-forths because I figured what the hell? He knew perfectly well the last name of the person he’d just been scamming and I figured that would make him talk to me… And he responded to this extremely calmly: ‘Oh, I don’t know – I don’t know that name.’”

“Is this Officer Green?” she asked.

“No, there’s no one of that name here,” he said.

So finally she yelled at him, “You bastard, you scammed my mother.”

And he reacted very calmly – too calmly, my mother thought, for an innocent person. He said, “No one has been scammed here,” and then he hung up. She called back immediately, but a recorded message told her there was a technical difficulty and the number was temporarily out of service.

What struck my mother the most about the whole episode is that my grandmother managed to do so many things – driving, withdrawing money, making calls, wiring cash – all at once and on her own. Normally my grandmother prefers to stay at home.

She makes calls on speed dial, which is configured for her by someone else, and she uses preset transactions at the ATM. My mother handles her finances, my father handles her taxes, and my mother’s name is on all of her bank accounts.

Where I was concerned, Grandma’s initiative extended beyond phone calls and money. To protect me, she was willing to lie to bank tellers, to wire service employees, and even to her daughter.

“Did you think you were paying off a cop?” my mother asked her afterward. “Well, yeah, basically,” she said.

Grandma’s age had nothing to do with the success of Green’s scam. Years ago, when W E STO N MA G AZINEG ROUP.COM

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my cousins and I were small children, she used to tell us “Head Stories,” tales so called because she conjured them purely from her imagination. We begged her for them whenever we saw her. When I was older, she told me about nights out when she snuck out of her nurses’ dormitory past curfew. She and her friends tied a string to her sleeping roommate’s foot that they could tug from

By that time, Van Praagh had already tried on her 26 other men’s names — all wrong.

But, the woman — the subject — forgot about those failures, because they were not important to her. ‘Jack’ was important.”

The “favorite grandson” line that Green’s accomplice fed my grandmother was a lucky guess: I am her only grandson, so as a joke, she has always called me her favorite. But cold

GRANDMA HAD HER DOUBTS. THE ADDRESS GREEN GAVE HER FOR THE WIRES WAS IN TBILISI, GEORGIA, A PLACE SHE’D BARELY HEARD OF. outside the window to wake her when they came back. On one of those nights, she met my grandfather, who was in training to be a Navy engineer. Clever, creative woman that she is, she told herself a story about what had happened to me. Green and his accomplice simply knew how to get her started.

My grandmother has a Finnish surname that is uncommon even in Finland. She and my mother are the only people with their names in the United States, so every result in an online search pertains to them. If the scammers had looked at my mother’s Facebook page, they could have found photos of me at my high school graduation and more photos of our 2013 trip to Italy. But Green didn’t even need to mine social media to pull it off. He used a technique called “cold reading,” often used by psychics, mediums and fortune tellers, to get Grandma to volunteer information that she thought he already knew. The practice is common on daytime television. James Van Praagh, a bestselling author and selfdescribed clairvoyant who claims to speak to the dead, will throw out a broad statement to his audience, see who reacts, and then allow that person to supply the specifics.

James Randi, a well-known magician turned skeptic, explains in an online account how mentalists such as Van Praagh use the technique.

“Van Praagh was looking for the name of the woman’s deceased husband,” Randi writes, “and he came up with it by asking, ‘Do you know anyone named Jack?’ The woman answered, ‘Yes! Jack, my husband!’

But Van Praagh didn’t identify ‘Jack’ at all.

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readers make guesses. When they stumble on the right answer, our minds, more accustomed to seeking out truth than lies, forget everything that came before. That day, the scammers found a “hit” on the first try. Randi, who invites magicians to test their powers under controlled conditions, counteracts cold reading by only allowing subjects to answer “yes” or “no,” thereby forcing the reader — not

the subject — to provide the information. Had Grandma asked personal questions about me and been careful not to offer any details, the scam may well have fizzled.

We ended up recovering my grandmother’s money, thanks in part to the kernel of doubt that made her call me, and also in part to how quickly I picked up her call, but mostly thanks to the wire service employees at Walmart and Stop & Shop, who had delayed the transactions, suspicious of their destination.

Since then, the extended family has adopted a “safe word” to use in real emergencies. If I do need Grandma’s help someday, I’ll call her up and utter a word no one else would know, and she’ll know it’s me.

Grandma was lucky. It’s not common for victims to get their money back, especially once the transfer has already gone through, according to Edison Alban of New York’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “When you wire money to another country, the recipient can pick it up at multiple locations, making it nearly impossible to identify them or track them down,” Alban says.

Not only are scammers hard to trace, but investigators also have to divide their attentions among a litany of schemes. The Internet Crime Complaint Center lists the most common varieties: Auction fraud, counterfeit cashier’s checks, credit card fraud, debt elimination, parcel courier schemes, escrow services fraud, identity theft, Internet extortion, investment fraud, lottery fraud, Nigerian letter or “419” scams – named after the relevant section of Nigeria’s legal code – phishing and spoofing, Ponzi and pyramid scams, reshipping… the list is staggering.

And the scam industry is booming.

Since that first attempt, my grandmother has received calls from a man with an incomprehensible accent, asking for $100 to start a vague process. On one occasion, when she said she couldn’t understand him, he asked to speak to the “owner.”

“I am the owner, thank you,” she said, and hung up.

--Rob Wolfe is a staff writer at the Valley News, a daily newspaper in Vermont and New Hampshire. He studied feature writing at Columbia’s journalism school, and remains (he hopes) his grandmother’s favorite grandson. His essay first appeared on Narrative.com.

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Captivated by their lives, neither one of them is coming home any time soon.

Dan Hymowitz, from Park Slope, Brooklyn has spent seven of the last eight years overseas. The majority of his time was spent in Liberia, one of the poorest countries in the world, working in public policy for the first female President on the continent. Most recently he helped craft the comprehensive response to the Ebola crisis that swept the nation.

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digital marketing job for Airbnb, a company he calls a “Superbrand,� which, in the language of millennials, means a really coveted job.

They are each ferociously bright, ambitious, young adults who have decided to leave their country and their families in search of a life which melds career opportunity with global adventure.

They are not alone. Millennials, the children born between 1980 and 2000, are making the decision to push aside ever weakening global boundaries, for work, for adventure, for social action and for some, a last fling before growing up and getting that first serious job.

According to a Boston Consulting Group study, more than 59 percent of millennials say they would move overseas for work. The largest collective student debt in history has placed pressure on their generation to find work wherever they can. The

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ability to support themselves without asking for parental assistance seems to be easier to achieve living outside the country. Facing declining corporate opportunity, prohibitive rents, and the cost of health care, millennials have discovered that overseas opportunity offers a tempting alternative. Those with

facile computer skills can find tech jobs in emerging markets all over the world. Newly established companies, many cobbled together by optimistic entrepreneurs, offer the promise of job experience and a dash of adventure, an intoxicating mix.

Information is rife throughout the Internet, and this generation, the first to be fluent in digital technology, has no trouble exploring JONATHAN KALAN IN PETRA, cyberspace to find the information they JORDAN IN 2013. HE SPENT FOUR seek when considering a new job, planning MONTHS IN JORDAN OVER THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS. a trip, getting cheap airfare, and engaging with others who enthusiastically endorse their experiences on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Travel blogs, with breezy promises of thrills and sunsets, add to the lure.

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American artists. In the past three years, Free Radical has produced and managed over 18 international tours in nearly 20 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the U.S. at some of the most prestigious venues and festivals worldwide. Allie was recently profiled on mobileofficelife. com “Travel is my first love, music is my second. So any way that I can incorporate travel into my job and work life, and be earning a living doing what I love and exploring the world at the same time, is when I am happiest,” she said. “I am eternally grateful to live in the ‘digital nomad’ and ‘mobile office’ era, where all we need is a computer and Wi-Fi their work, and make the world a better place. connection and can set up shop anywhere from a nature park in Baby boomers, the parents of this new global generation, say they Mexico to a guest house in India surrounded by monkeys.” are extremely proud of the accomplishments of their children. They Her parents are in awe of her adventurous spirit and also confess the difficulty of being separated by thousands of miles. accomplishments and at the same time, wistful that their daughter “Communication is not the problem,” said Lynn Abramson, has chosen the life of an expat. whose daughter Samantha works for Apple in China. “We Kristy De Leon is a licensed marital and family therapist and communicate all the time via Skype, iPhone, or texting. It’s the life coach who frequently works with millennials in California. distance, and knowing that you cannot get She says the traditional family comfort of there quickly if there is a problem.” having children nearby is fading. “Families Jonathan Kalan is an accomplished are reorganizing to accommodate to the photojournalist, entrepreneur, social realities of the employment and financial activist and self-confessed digital nomad. state of our country.”

He is happiest when on his way to the next De Leon cited a client who moved to frontier. His love of adventure was honed London through an au pair agency to by his parents, George and Cheryl Kalan, actualize her dreams of traveling to Europe, travel enthusiasts since their youth. When but also out of frustration after applying he was six they took him on a family trip to several jobs at home that paid next to to Papua New Guinea, a remote and nothing because she only had a Bachelor’s tribal part of Indonesia. He attended the degree in child development. Although her University of California at Santa Barbara, parents missed her dearly, they held onto where he spent a year abroad in India. the hope that she would return one day.

Since graduation, he has hardly been Communication via Skype allowed her JON FICHMAN AND HIS FRIEND MEREDITH AT BRANDENBURG GATE IN BERLIN home. For the last four years he has lived parents to still feel close to her and remain mostly in East Africa, shooting photos included in her life. and writing stories for the BBC and the Associated Press. “I am a After a year, she called to say she had fallen in love with a young global nomad. I’ve chosen a life style that allows me to live in a lot of Englishman who had a son from a previous relationship, so moving places. People in my generation who are involved in media, tech, and back home was not an option. Amy chose to stay in England with the innovation are globally connected and can do that.” man of her dreams. Because of visa complications, she did come home Jonathan has the complete support of his parents, who say they miss for a short while so that her fiancé could meet her family, whom he had him, but are thrilled at his success. “I really like that he is a citizen of already met virtually. They had a small wedding ceremony, since Amy’s the world,” said Jonathan’s father George Kalan. His mother agrees, but family was not in a financial position to travel to England. Although said they did worry when he was covering the Arab spring in Egypt; her parents missed her, they found comfort that she had a well paying several people he knew were killed in the violence there. job and found happiness in her personal life.

Allie Silver, 28, is an American expat based in Buenos Aires, Of course, some people experience devastating heartbreak Argentina. She is the founder of Free Radical Productions, a when they travel overseas and meet a person from a completely music management and consulting company specializing in South different culture with whom they fall in love. One young man who 38

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declined to give his name, worked in Japan where he met a young Indian woman he wanted desperately to marry. Ultimately they separated because neither could envision raising the children they both wanted in a distant world without their own families present in their lives.

Isabel Hirama, a millennial from Virginia, works in Malaysia

travel the world? Now you don’t have to abandon your career to see the world. And you don’t have to abandon the skills you need and have worked hard to create.”

Many graduates are unsure what profession they want to pursue, and opt for overseas programs where they can teach English as a second language to foreign students. Demand is high and

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experience is not required. They can earn enough money to live in the countries in which they work and satisfy their ambition to travel as well. All one has to do to find those programs is Google ESL and the options abound.

“The availability of information on the Internet makes access to these programs simple,” said Kristy De Leon. “Many boomer parents endorse the concept of a year away, exploring new worlds with a touch of responsibility. They encourage their children to go. They also travel to see them. If someone relocates to China or Japan, it also meets the parents needs to live vicariously through their child’s adventures.”

Diana Edelman, 36, lived and worked overseas for several years, trying to find a satisfactory path to her life. When she graduated from Towson College in Maryland she worked in public relations in Atlanta, but found the work underwhelming, and the hours long. She felt she was missing out on life, tied to a Blackberry, doing work she hated. She wanted to travel, but felt she would disappoint her father if she was not on an established career path. Finally her mother, a psychotherapist who had seen too for Jobbaticals, an Internet search firm that matches people with many unhappy adults trapped in jobs they hated, encouraged her one-year jobs in Malaysia and Italy. “We have work for software to explore opportunities overseas. Diana found a job she loved developers, web designers, graphic designers, and positions in in Thailand, at Save Elephant Foundation. She began raising business sales and marketing, mostly with startups around the awareness of the plight of working elephants, traveling widely, world. Our opportunities are real jobs, not vocations. Salary levels promoting responsible tourism, visiting places like Sri Lanka, reflect the cost of living in the country.

Cambodia, Kuala Lumpur, Myanmar. After that she moved to “Up to now,” said Hirama, “it’s been a choice. Do I quit my job and Europe, working as a digital nomad, writing blogs that earned her subsistence pay. Ultimately, she returned to the United States much happier and now works in a public relations firm.

Laura Mandala of Mandala Research, is a sociologist and travel expert who researches trends in the tourism industry.

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I was seventeen years old and had been subsisting on a diet

of cigarettes and Adderall for months. Now, on a sunny fall morning, I was on my way to visit Princeton.

My father was waiting downstairs, on Eighty-eighth Street off West End Avenue, in front of our apartment building. He had rented a nondescript blue sedan—no frills, with upholstery that smelled faintly medicinal, talk radio pontificating from the tinny speakers—and now stood with one hand on the hood of the car, making small talk with the doorman. On his hand, his wedding ring was conspicuously absent.

As I watched him, I convinced myself that I could see a trace of a tan line on his ring finger, a thin band of flesh paler than the natural olive of his skin—but then I blinked, and it was only a trick of the light. I shook my head. It was a stupid, sentimental thought.

I usually tried not to think about my parents’ divorce: its onceprominent space in my consciousness had descended into the shadows of everyday normalcy, and now sometimes it even seemed as if they had never been together at all. In the same way that I watched people milling about in midtown Manhattan, so inoculated to the city’s mammoth scale that they no longer realized how strange and spectacular a sight it was—the skyscrapers, the crowds, concrete and steel—the emptiness left by my parents’ separation was so enormous that I had forgotten how it once felt extraordinary. And when I was in midtown, I, too, looked straight ahead like a native New Yorker.

Only a tourist would look up. Only someone embarrassing would still be haunted by the collapse of his parents’ marriage a full year after it had happened.

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I stood on the sidewalk for a moment, nursing a sickly sweet cup of bodega coffee and sucking down my first cigarette of the morning. In a paper bag at my feet was a lemon poppy seed muffin, glazed with a sugary sheen, which I had bought not to eat but to prove to myself that I could keep from eating. I wasn’t about to ruin my diet by eating solid food now, especially on the day I was to visit Princeton, which I had recently decided was probably my dream school.

I was dressed in preppy staples—a V-neck sweater in a warm autumnal scarlet, the ivory collar of a dress shirt starched and collegiate around my throat, a rep tie knotted in a loose four-inhand. My father wore a long-sleeved thermal shirt and jeans, the self-effacing functionality of which annoyed me. Whenever he came home from work, he always seemed eager to shed the markers of his professional life—the cuff links, the wool slacks—and change into something comfortable and utilitarian. I preferred to keep my tie on until I went to bed, not wanting to lose the power I pretended it gave me, aligning me with the pedigreed prep school boys whose cravats were always effortlessly askew. There were even nights when I slept in my blue blazer—a security blanket, I told myself, to remind me who I was supposed to be. (Mostly, though, I did this so I could tell people I’d done it—I hoped it would make me seem more interesting, somehow.)

Earlier that summer, my father had told me he would take me on a trip to visit the colleges that interested me, but I’d been wary.

gesture. Surely this college tour had nothing to do with where I would actually end up going to school. It was about maintaining the lie that I was a happy and successful teenager with a bright future before me. I had to keep going through the motions, because if I didn’t, my father might start to pay closer attention to me. That was the last thing I needed.

Yet even though I hustled my father constantly, lying and manipulating him to keep him at arm’s length, I was devastated by the fact that he couldn’t see through it. I wanted him to know me deeply enough to recognize that I was struggling. Not that I would have admitted it at the time.

My mood grew foul as I lingered on the sidewalk, smoking the cigarette down to the filter. My father called my name and I extinguished the butt with the toe of my loafer, then stalked over to the car. As usual, he had not realized that I was upset—but then, I hadn’t realized I was upset yet, either, let alone why—and I was unwilling to tell him. Instead, and also as usual, I was determined to punish him for not understanding this thing that even I didn’t understand by being as sullen as possible.

I slid into the passenger seat. The mood in the car felt heavy.

To most seventeen-year-olds, I imagined, college represented liberation, a period of endless possibility, but for me, the idea of being shackled to academia for another four years was exhausting.

I was what I liked to call myself in fits of self-description a “lazy overachiever” or a “failed perfectionist”—a deadly combination of

Only someone embarrassing would still be haunted by the collapse of his parents’ marriage a full year after it had happened.Yet even though I hustled my father constantly, lying and manipulating him to keep him at arm’s length, I was devastated by the fact that he couldn’t see through it. I wanted him to know me deeply enough to recognize that I was struggling.

My prospects for college were dim. I was already certain that no school that met my impossibly high standards would accept me as a student, and no school that accepted me as a student could possibly be worth attending. Princeton, a bastion of privilege— even the name sounded rich in my mouth, Princeton—seemed like the institution most beyond my reach, which was exactly what made it attractive.

But the actual process of applying felt so tedious. I preferred to spend my time in self-aggrandizing fantasy or its darker counterpart, neurotic dread; it was much easier obsessing than actually doing anything.

Most of all, the whole thing seemed implausible: Would my father really make the time to chauffeur me up and down the Northeast Corridor to check out colleges that he and I both knew were too good for me? His travel schedule for business was unrelenting, and even when he was in the city, he often stayed at the Upper East Side apartment of his girlfriend, Jennifer.

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ambition and sloth. College would just be the next place where I would strive and fail in the pursuit of excellence, and subsequently loathe myself for it. As I sat in the passenger seat and considered this line of thought, I couldn’t help but feel a thrill of smug superiority: To be already so bitter as I toured one of the nation’s most prestigious colleges felt like the ultimate mark of how very adult I had become.

Certainly it elevated me above the ranks of naively optimistic high school seniors who were genuinely excited about college—those kids weren’t as sophisticated as I was. It took years for me to learn that there was a difference between cynicism and maturity. In that car that day, they seemed to be one.

AS WE SPED ALONG the New Jersey Turnpike, the panoramic New York skyline disappeared into the rearview mirror. I always thought it was peculiar to think of Manhattan as an island since it always felt to me like a mainland, the only place that had ever mattered.

After an hour of stop-and-go traffic, my father needed a bathroom break. So did I, but for other reasons.

We pulled over at a rest stop outside of Edison. I circled the hallways until I found a handicapped-accessible restroom, single

occupancy. I locked the door, then jiggled the handle as I always did, to make sure that the door was really locked. I turned the spigot in the sink, letting the water gurgle noisily, then unfastened the changing table. From my back pocket, I removed a small leather pouch and emptied its contents onto the smooth grooved plastic of the table: a pocket mirror, a golden razor blade (I’d bought it at a head shop in the East Village, thinking it very edgy), a straw about two inches in length, a travel-size bottle of nasal spray, and a few dusty orange tabs of dextroamphetamine, trade name Dexedrine was increasingly hard to come by; I had prescriptions for methylphenidate, trade name Ritalin, in both standard and extended-release formulations, and I could always find amphetamine salt, trade name Adderall, but dextroamphetamine was the best. If someone had asked me, I would have explained, patiently and clearly, that methylphenidate is a less potent analogue of amphetamine salt, which itself was composed of two separate and distinct molecules of amphetamine: the levorotatory and dextrorotatory stereoisomers.

I would run through the medical terms in my mind frequently as I prepared the drug. The levorotatory amphetamine, or levoamphetamine, acts primarily on the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, producing a feeling of clarity and focus—whereas the dextrorotatory amphetamine, or dextroamphetamine, induces release of another neurotransmitter, dopamine, producing a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction.

Ritalin made me feel good, and Adderall made me feel great, but Dexedrine made me feel amazing.

Dexedrine elicited none of the twitchy, breathless anxiety that Adderall and Ritalin tended to induce; it didn’t make me want to study, because I didn’t need to study; it didn’t make me want to clean my room, because suddenly, my clothes were strewn about the floor for a very good reason. Dexedrine was just pure, clean euphoria, the thrill of acing a test without even trying, the vertiginous rush of getting everything I had always wanted all at once.

I took a card from my wallet and crushed the two tablets of dextroamphetamine into small chunks. Then, with the razor blade, I cut them into a coarse powder—thinking, as I always did, that the powder looked like the flavoring packet that came inside a blue box of macaroni and cheese. The gilded blade shone in the light. It had come attached to a chain, meant to be worn as a necklace, so its edge had been dulled just enough—not sharp enough to cut myself on, exactly right for chopping up pills. It screeched conspicuously across the surface of the mirror as I ground the powder into a chalky dust, then combed it into four choppy lines. In two quick breaths, I snorted it.

One, two.

Three, four.

Finely pressed fireworks exploded in my septum, then dripped down my throat: a welcome bitterness. Insufflating the drug, I repeated to myself, as opposed to taking it orally, potentiated its effect and expedited its impact. I knew all this very well because I had stayed up many nights in fevered highs, reading about it online.

I knew it also because I carried a pocket-size prescription drug reference in my book bag. I knew it mostly because everyone I knew was snorting pills, too.

I wiped down the mirror with a moistened paper towel, then took several hits of nasal spray to irrigate my sinuses. I checked

my reflection for those telltale orange granules that could so easily betray me. A dribble of snot, the sunshine yellow of an egg yolk, pooled in my philtrum. My pupils were pinpricks in the gray-green sea of my irises. One vein at my right temple throbbed cartoonishly.

I wiped my nose, put on my sunglasses, and exited the bathroom.

My father was idling in the convenience store, and I watched him through a pane of glass for what felt like a long moment. It had only been one year since he had left my mother, who had never cared much about how he dressed, and started dating Jennifer, who—if nothing else—had upgraded my father’s once-Spartan style. Gone were the saggy chinos and old cork Birkenstocks, grimly waxy from wear; in their place were overdyed indigo designer jeans, buttery leather loafers, cashmere sweaters. Even today, dressed so casually, he looked tall and handsome, with a prominent nose and a dark beard that masked his weak chin. He looked more virile, somehow, than he had before, emasculated by his marriage to my mother. I had inherited his sturdy build, thick hair, and full lips, and I was glad that he had passed this genetic inheritance on to me.

In that moment, I was glad that I was his son.

He looked up as I approached.

“Everything all right, Sam?” he asked.

“Oh, yeah. I’m fantastic,” I said, now meaning it.

“You want anything?”

I looked down the aisles of candy bars and potato chips. Coolers of brightly packaged soft drinks. Grinning celebrities on magazine covers. Suddenly, the lights were glaring, but that didn’t bother me.

I was joyfully, blissfully happy.

Amphetamines! You, only better.

I smiled at my father. “Let’s hit the road,” I said. He beamed back.

And in the car, the daylight was shining through the window a little bit brighter, and I plugged my iPod into the auxiliary jack so we could listen to Arcade Fire together, and my father drummed his fingers on the steering wheel to the beat in that way he always did, and the bitterness I had felt at the beginning of the trip melted away to reveal the smooth, sun-warmed surface of my sentimental self-regard.

When I was high, I could be kind and engaged, cracking jokes and smiling warmly. Like the son I thought he wanted.

“Thanks for taking me on this trip, Dad,” I said.

He glanced at me, surprised. His eyes crinkled, like he knew he’d gotten it right and he was pleased with himself. “Of course,” he said.

In that moment, it seemed that the future that awaited me, the future that had felt leviathan only an hour earlier, was now as airy and attainable as a dandelion wish floating out of reach just slowly enough to grasp before it disappeared forever.

I could do this. It would be easy. I was sure of it. I would get through this year, and I would go to a great college, and I would be a successful, functional adult.

I was wrong.

THE DAY AFTER I got back from my college tour, Daphne and I skipped French class to sit outside at a French restaurant on the Upper West Side—which could almost, I thought, be considered a field trip. I ordered a bottle of wine. Daphne ordered a Caesar salad with dressing on the side and a black iced coffee. She was a platinum blonde with a droll wit; I liked performing for her, but I W E STO N MAG AZINEG ROUP.COM

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could be honest with her, too. Like me, she was a recent transplant, having moved from London with her family one year earlier. Since her father was an advertising executive and her mother was a psychoanalyst, she was clever and inquisitive—a perfect foil for all my glib posturing.

“Can you take this bread away, please?” Daphne said to the waitress. She took a drag from a Parliament Light and looked at me skeptically.

“Here’s the thing, Daphne,” I said, lighting my own cigarette. I was jittery. I had been up for the first half of the night studying; then I’d gone to the apartment of a guy on Riverside Drive just past midnight and stayed there until four, sniffing poppers and fooling around; then I’d had a 7:00 a.m. detention in the dean’s office, which I had nearly every morning; the upper-school dean doled them out to students a week at a time if he caught them smoking, which

Daphne impaled a ribbon of lettuce with her fork, as unimpressed with me as she was with the salad. “You’d better apply, then,” she said. She chewed for a bit. “Do you really think you can get into Princeton, Sam? I mean, you know I love you, but— fucking hell— you’re a mess.”

I ground my teeth anxiously.

“I could do it if I really set my mind to it, don’t you think? I just have to quit doing all the bullshit that I’ve been doing. No more cutting class to blaze on the Great Lawn. No more sneaking out at midnight to go sit at Marquee, which sucks now, anyway—how many hours have we clocked, like, watching Lindsay Lohan text and scowl?—just waiting for some probably-married dickbag to buy me a Red Bull–vodka and take me back to his hotel room for completely unfulfilling sex. Honestly, Daphne, I’m so sick of that, aren’t you? No more showing up for morning detention still drunk from the night

Ritalin made me feel good, and Adderall made me feel great, but Dexedrine made me feel amazing. happened to me virtually every week. I was so hungry that morning that I’d gnashed two tablets of Adderall with my teeth just to have something to chew on.

“I just feel like—okay, so, ever since I was a little boy, I have known that deep inside me there is a door, and that door leads to a room, and inside that room, there is a table, and on that table is a locked box that contains the meaning of life—like, all of the happiness that I could ever wish for or want or dream of having, you know?—and I’ve always wondered what the key is to open that box because it’s always been locked to me, impenetrable. And this week, when I went to Princeton, it just felt like—I don’t know, like I finally realized what that key is, Daphne, because that key is Princeton. It’s Princeton. It’s Princeton, and their grand, grand architecture, and their Nobel Prize–winning faculty, and these expanses of green lawn that go on forever, and benches, like, wrapped in tendrils of ivy—fucking tendrils, I swear to God. And you know how, like— remember walking around Columbia before our SATs, and how, like, there just really wasn’t anyone cute around? It was a lot of stocky girls in hoodies and basketball shorts and UGGs—I don’t even know how that happens—but Princeton was, like, the opposite of that. And I know that, like, if I went to Columbia, I’d still be in the city so at least I could still have a social life—I mean, I could go down to NYU to party since that’s basically a trade school for attractive people with family money, right?—and if I went to Princeton I’d be in New Jersey, which is so ugh, but like—would I even want to come back to the city when everyone there is so fucking beautiful? And I don’t mean normal beautiful, I mean Hamptons beautiful, Saint-Tropez beautiful, beautiful in that rich way—you know what I mean—and this privilege that’s so thick in the air you can taste it. And I want to be one of those people, those privileged few. So I guess, then, the question is, like, could I be one of them, Daphne? I could just—I could feel it as soon as I set foot on campus, that it was the only place I could ever really be happy, that I belonged there. I mean, I have to get in, right? I’ll do anything to get in. Like, literally anything.

Except, you know, studying and extracurriculars.”

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before—and this is going to be hard, I mean, I’m really going to need your support if we’re going to pull this off, but I mean, like, if I can curb all those bad habits, I could probably do it, right?”

I sipped my wine.

“I could get into Princeton, couldn’t I?” I didn’t want to say good-bye to those nights—catching a cab uptown with girlfriends as they changed out of slinky cocktail dresses into dress shirts and ties, replacing their stilettos with suede boots, emptying out of the taxi in a cloud of smoke, fragrance, and tousled hair, popping pills and blinking Visine tears and sucking on breath mints. Huddling outside the Gothic wooden doors of our school, waiting for Willie, the hobbled old security guard, to let us inside.

More than the buzz and stomp of Meatpacking District nightclubs with my friends, though, I lived for the nights I spent with strangers.

By midnight, with the rush of the evening’s amphetamines surging through me, I could go online, find an older guy with a nice apartment and some blow, and lose myself in that euphoric lust daze for a few hours. I would tell him my name was Brock or Cory and that I was a junior at Indiana State just visiting New York City; or I would tell him that I had a girlfriend and that I’d “never done this before.” And then there would be quickening pulses, some itch that I couldn’t quite name being scratched—and for a few hours, I would be wholly present in my body and also somehow able to exit it entirely. And then it would be over, a bleary comedown, two strangers, naked in a cold apartment somewhere on Central Park West. I would say I needed money for a taxi home; he would fish out some cash—often, and to which I did not object, several twenties or hundreds—and then I would walk home through that desolate predawn hour, use the money to buy painkillers or cocaine for myself or just to go out with my friends the next night. Yet I rarely spoke about it with my friends. There was socially acceptable wildness—the typical antics of bored, indolent, private school kids—and then there was what I did.

Surely, I reasoned, there had to be some way I could keep doing

that while also becoming a more serious, motivated student. Someone purposeful and civic-minded, with a commitment to service. It seemed in that moment unjust that they should be mutually exclusive.

“Well, it’s ambitious,” Daphne said. “You know. A leap. And, like, you’re sort of the worst.” She shook out her hair, as though trying to rid herself of some stress, real or imagined. “Not to mention that Princeton doesn’t even matter—it’s just a tangible embodiment of this unattainable version of yourself. It’s practically Jungian, really.

Symbols or whatever.”

I was caught off guard. “No,” I said. “I’m pretty sure it’s about going to Princeton.”

She shrugged. “Thank God I’m going back home for university.

The ways they torture you Americans. It’s shit, really.” She looked at me with pity and sighed. “Aren’t you supposed to have safety schools?”

“I mean,” I said slowly, knowing she was right and disliking it, “there are Wesleyan and Hampshire—but I’m not that liberal or lazy.

And Harvard and Yale. They’re both, like . . . kind of overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time, you know?”

I kept talking but avoided her eyes. “Like, as an undergraduate at those places, you don’t have a lot of options to take, you know, like, small, intimate classes with professors, because it’s mostly lectures, and you have to cycle through, like, nineteen TAs before you can get a word in with the professor, if ever, and, like, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to bust my ass and spend fifty thousand dollars a year—well, it’s my parents’ money, but whatever—to go to a school where I can’t even develop a relationship with my instructor. I’ll buy a fucking book on tape, thank you very much. You know what I mean? It’s just, like, whatever. And my adviser says I should apply to Connecticut College, but, like, what is that even? I mean, okay, there’s Sarah Lawrence, and

the academics there are great, but it’s kind of a dump, you know? It just looks run-down. And it’s so close to the city that I’d probably come down all the time and just, like, end up living here, which defeats the whole purpose of this holy residential college experience everyone keeps talking about. Also, I mean, not that this is a reason not to go, but you know I’ve been really trying not to do coke and, like, when I went up there and I saw that girl Eleanor, do you remember her? Like, I was staying overnight at her place and she wanted to get a gram and so I just went for it, which, like, was stupid because it had been so long since I’d done it but it just seemed so harmless and, like, do I really want to be around a bunch of cokeheads all the time? If I wanted that, I could just go to Vassar, right? I mean, Amherst and Swarthmore are both gorgeous—at least they look like Ivies, even if they’re not, but I just kind of feel like, I dunno, like, there’s only so much foliage that a person can take in before their head explodes. I mean, am I being elitist here? I don’t think I am. That’s why it’s Princeton. It has to be Princeton.”

I chewed on my fingernails. I ran my fingers through my hair. I lit another cigarette.

“You take too much Adderall,” Daphne said.

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“THE ART OF GIVING BACK” PANELISTS FROM LEFT: JEFF ERDMANN OF NORWALK, NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL CLASS OF 1978, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT MERRILL LYNCH; HOLLY DONALDSON OF NEW CANAAN, NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL CLASS OF 2004, A YOUTH AND COMMUNITY LEADER AT AMERICARES; WILLY OPPENHEIM, A NEW CANAAN NATIVE NOW LIVING IN SEATTLE, NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL CLASS OF 2001, RHODES SCHOLAR AND FOUNDER OF OMPRAKASH; JOE TOCE OF NEW CANAAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ANDERSEN TAX; LINDA MARSHALL OF NEW CANAAN, FOUNDER OF MISSIONBRIDGE PHILANTHROPY AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL; AND MODERATOR PAUL SULLIVAN OF STAMFORD, NEW YORK TIMES “WEALTH MATTERS” COLUMNIST AND AUTHOR.

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It seems like a subtle nuance, perhaps even annoyingly slight. But how we think about philanthropy - whether we’re giving to causes because we care about them or giving back for some help we received - matters. And it was one of the central points of a panel discussion I moderated at New Canaan Country School in November.

And while the distinction between giving and giving back may seem like splitting an atom in some parts of the country where any donations are appreciated, in Fairfield County, the distinction may be one the areas very philanthropic residents might want to think about.

THE PANEL DISCUSSION IN THE ALUMNI AUDITORIUM IN THE STEVENS UPPER SCHOOL OF NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL.

According to the most recent data from the Chronicle on Philanthropy, residents of Fairfield County are far more generous than their counterparts nearby (www. philanthropy.com/interactives/howamerica-gives#county/09001). They give nearly 40 percent more than residents of Litchfield County and 45 percent more than the people who live around the capital city. (People in Fairfield County also give 25 percent more than their peers across the state line in Westchester County.)

Yet Connecticut, which has the highest average income of any state in the country, ranked 21st in charitable giving when tax returns from everyone in the state were counted, according to a report released by the Urban Institute in February [2016].

This was the best of the New England states. Neighboring New York ranked 10th. (The number one spot for total giving went to Wyoming, which ranked 6th in income.)

In other words, much of the giving in Connecticut is coming from a few pockets in the state, like Fairfield County. When the Urban Institute looked at charitable giving on itemized tax returns – which is how the more affluent people who would have more to give to charity file their tax returns - Connecticut’s rank jumped to fourth in the country.

But are these charitably minded folks giving or giving back? That one word makes a difference for people trying to align their values with their resources and have the greatest impact possible. It’s not ever an easy answer.

“The implication of giving back is that you took something,” said

LEFT TO RIGHT: FROM LEFT, HOLLY DONALDSON; DR. ROBERT MACRAE OF NEW CANAAN, HEAD OF SCHOOL AT NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL; BETH GOLDEN OF NEW CANAAN; FROM LEFT, JACKIE LEONARD OF DARIEN, PEGGY TOCE OF NEW CANAAN, BETHANY ZARO OF NEW CANAAN, JULIE BOSTWICK OF NEW CANAAN. FROM LEFT, LISA SCHULTZ OF NEW CANAAN, WILLY OPPENHEIM, PAULA OPPENHEIM OF GREENWICH, BILL AND ELLEN OPPENHEIM OF NEW CANAAN.

Willy Oppenheim, a Rhodes Scholar who founded Omprakash, a nonprofit that connects young people with volunteer opportunities around the world, at the NCCS panel. “And I think there’s a reason for this, but people forget it. And so we talk about, ‘oh we should give back’ in this vague and warm and fuzzy sense.”

He tied giving back to wealth inequality today and historic issues of oppression.

This may not be how most people think of their voluntary contributions to good causes, but Mr. Oppenheim raised the issue of whether philanthropy was a way to pay back a debt or if it was an opportunity to be a better person.

Giving, to him, meant being a responsible citizen. “That’s something I try to let inform the decisions I make as an educator and as a consumer, what I eat, what I wear, where I go, how I engage with politics and ideas,” he said. “It’s not just one section of my life. It’s how I try to be in this world.”

For most people every donation is a deeply personal decision, whether it is categorized as charity – to relieve an urgent need, like a natural disaster – or philanthropy – to try to build something better.

“In my world giving is one of the most personal things,” said Jeff Erdman, an NCCS graduate and the top financial adviser at Merrill Lynch. “People always ask how much should I give. It’s a very, very personal thing.”

For him, living in South Norwalk and working in Greenwich, it came down to the division of giving money but also time. And this included the lessons that his children could learn by seeing how he and his wife Barbara thought through what they gave and why, from money to their alma maters to time spent at the Open Door Shelter in Norwalk.

Holly Davidson, a young alumnae of Country School who now works for AmeriCares, the disaster relief charity based in Stamford, talked about the reality of

younger donors: they have more time than money and giving that time now is okay. But in many ways it opens their thinking to a day where they may have more financial resources to support the causes they volunteer for today.

If what you give to is personal – religious, educational and medical organizations top GivingUSA’s annual list – how you give that money can make a difference. Joe Toce, a managing director at Andersen Tax, said when wealthier people seek his advice to structure their gifts they can end up having a greater impact with their dollars and saving themselves on their tax bill.

“You can give more if you can be more efficient in your giving and take better consequences of your tax advantages,” he said.

And once people start to give – or give back – the desire to help just multiplies and many wish they had started sooner. “For our wealthier clients, one thing we see is that they start too late,” he said.

(This is not the case with Mr. Toce: he and his wife Peggy have hosted over 60 receptions for Georgetown University, his alma mater, at their home in New Canaan.)

Where anyone trying to affect big change in philanthropy is going to struggle is when they’re confronted with the magnitude of the problems. Mr. Oppenheim said, “Failing to address the root causes of a given issue can risk perpetuating the status quo. And he added, “The most powerful drivers of change are getting people to think and understand the deeper issues.”

Those statements are no doubt true but some problems are so large – educational challenges or healthcare in the United States – that no one person could solve them, even with billions of dollars to give.

Linda Marshall, who helped start the Stepping Stones Museum for Children in Norwalk and now runs Mission Bridge, a philanthropic advisory service, had

FROM LEFT, JOHN AND BARBARA ERDMANN OF NEW CANAAN, ALAN AND BARBARA DONALDSON OF NEW CANAAN.

some consolation: a portfolio approach to giving and something of a philanthropic approach to investing.

“Socially responsible investing is really thinking about how you can use your assets to create any kind of social impact,” she said.

As the night ended, I was reminded of a story Michael Bloomberg told me a few months after his third term as New York City mayor was up. He was at a conference out west when a hedge fund manager approached him and his schools chancellor, Joel Klein.

The manager took them behind a cactus and said that he and some friends were going to raise $1 billion over the next five years and fundamentally fix New York’s education system.

When Mr. Bloomberg told the man that the annual public school budget in the city was $22 billion, the man, well meaning as he was, simply walked away.

Perhaps with the biggest problems the best a philanthropist can do is make a difference on a local level and hope that similar organizations notice. But that’s a good start. And if that donor can align his or her values with his cause, that giving might give back, too.

--Paul Sullivan is the author of The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy, out in paperback in March, and the Wealth Matters columnist for The New York Times.

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< JON AND TRACEY STEWART AT FARM SANCTUARY’S NEW YORK SHELTER IN WATKINS GLEN. PHOTO BY JO-ANNE MCARTHUR

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Each resident has a name and a story, and you’ll meet your fair share when you take a guided tour of the sanctuary.

The New York shelter is open to visitors from May through October; hour-long tours are conducted on Saturdays and Sundays in May, September and October, and Wednesday to Sunday from June through August. Tour fees are $10 for adults, $5 for children under 12, and free for children 3 and under. For a more intimate experience, Farm Sanctuary members can also schedule a stay in one of three bed and breakfast cabins, each inspired by an animal whose life was transformed at sanctuary. B&B guests are treated to a full vegan breakfast and a private tour where they can spend a little more time with each animal group.

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MEET THE ANIMALS ANNA AND MAYBELLE: RESCUED BY FARM SANCTUARY LAST SPRING AND ADOPTED BY TRACEY STEWART, THESE LUCKY PIGLETS ARE LIVING IT UP IN THEIR NEW HOME IN NEW JERSEY. YOU CAN FOLLOW THEIR ADVENTURES ON FACEBOOK AT THE DAILY SQUEAL. VALENTINO: RESCUED FROM A STOCKYARD WHERE HE WAS CONSIDERED “DEFECTIVE,” THIS PLAYFUL LITTLE STEER IS ALL HEART! CHRISTINA: TURKEYS ARE VERY CURIOUS INDIVIDUALS, AND CHRISTINA WILL LOVE INTERACTING AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU VISIT. OTTO AND ZUZU: TWINS AND BEST FRIENDS, THESE GOATS HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED THE COMPANIONSHIP THAT HELPS THEM THRIVE.

June 5, 2016 BARNYARD BIRTHDAY BASH Watkins Glen, NY Come kick-start your summer by celebrating the lives of the animals at Farm Sanctuary at their annual Barnyard Birthday Bash. On Sunday, June 5th, they’re hosting a collective birthday party for rescued residents. Bring your friends and family to help honor the animals by spending quality time with them at the sanctuary, learning their incredible rescue stories, and celebrating their new lives.

The Bash will also include vegan cake, ice cream, cookies, games, and more. Join in a party where everyone is a guest of honor, from the animals to people like you who help them enjoy many more birthdays to come.

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July 4, 2016 PIGNIC Watkins Glen, NY Spend the Fourth of July Holiday with your friends, family, and the rescued animals at Farm Sanctuary! On July 4, they’re celebrating everyone’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at their annual Pignic. Come spend quality time with the animals, and enjoy watching them engage in the natural, daily pursuits that make them happy. The event will include tours of the sanctuary, a delicious vegan picnic, kid crafts and more.

Registration information available on www.farmsanctuary.org --Sam Goldstein is a New York-based writer.

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT Talking about the past is the best way to understand the present and to approach our future. When I started working on ‘Ellis,’ the refugee crisis had not yet reached its current peak. Walking around the abandoned hospital on Ellis Island, I could feel the presence of the hundreds of thousands of people who passed through, and of the countless ones who didn’t make it and got turned back. I look for what’s often missing in today’s media coverage. I want to find the story behind each person who left his or her country. I want to know what made them leave everything and everyone behind, even when they knew they’d never be able to go back. It takes so much courage. There were immigrants in Ellis a hundred years ago, there are migrants now, and there will be some in a hundred years, so we have to do what we can to try to relate to each individual story.

ABOUT JR The French artist, JR, exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. In 2011 he received the TED Prize, after which he created Inside Out, an international participatory art project that allows people worldwide to get their picture taken and paste it to support an idea and share their experience. He recently directed the short documentary Les Bosquets, based on the story of Ladj Ly and the performance of the ballet Les Bosquets by the New York City Ballet (2014) that was inspired by the riots in the French suburbs in 2005. JR also directed Face to Face, Women are Heroes, and Wrinkles of the City – Cuba. www.jr-art.net

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“ELLIS ISLAND: GHOSTS OF FREEDOM”

BY STEPHEN WILKES

IT IS THE DARK SIDE OF THE ISLAND. A place where the huddled masses yearning to breathe free remained huddled, remained yearning, many permanently, just inches short of the Promised Land. In the shadow of Ellis Island’s Great Hall, forgotten by history and woefully ill equipped for its battle with nature, I came upon the ruins of a vast hospital: contagious disease wards and isolation rooms for people whose spirits carried them across oceans, but whose bodies failed them a stone’s throw from Paradise.

In 1998 I began my first exploration into the hospital.

The south side was 50 percent the work of man, 50 percent the triumph of nature. The hospital had become a surreal sculpture of vines, leaves and moss, mingled with shattered plaster, curling paint and rusted iron, meandered through empty corridors and dead rooms.

But mostly I felt life.

Not in an abstract sense – or in the memory of the thousands who came to Ellis Island dreaming of a life in America but who died instead here, across the harbor – but in a tangible sense. I felt a palpable sense of humanity everywhere. It was an energy in whose presence I felt tremendous humility.

From 1998 through 2003 I photographed the infectious disease hospital on the south side of Ellis Island. It became a five year obsession, which eventually led to the publication of my book, “Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom” in 2007. Seven years later, in October of 2014, I had the pleasure of meeting the artist JR on Ellis Island through a chance encounter; he was in the final stages of finishing his “Unframed” project on the island, and I was fortunate to witness his vision come to fruition.

One of the things that I find so remarkable and compelling about JR’s work is his ability to connect the world through his art. On Ellis Island, my work dealt with what lies underneath, the history within the light. I never saw a face; I only felt the presence of life throughout my documentation. In “Ellis Island Unframed,” JR has put a face on the humanity I felt in the empty rooms and corridors of the south side. In doing so, he has inspired a whole new way of seeing and thinking about America’s gateway to freedom, embracing the unique history of the South Island, and resurrecting a landmark through his art.

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NEXT STOP, LAKE JAMES Evelyn looked at her bed, strewn with dresses, sweaters, jeans, boots, sandals, and Patagonias, and tried once again to narrow down what she’d need for an Adirondack weekend.

She flipped open her ringing cell phone. “Hi, Mom,” she said. “Are you bringing the Lilly?” Barbara said.

“Honestly, Mother, you’re calling me to see what I’m packing? I’ve been to Preston’s place, remember? You haven’t.”

“You’ll never regret bringing a Lilly Pulitzer dress to a summer weekend,” Barbara said firmly from the other end of the line.

Evelyn was headed to Preston’s summer house in Lake James, in the Adirondacks, for Memorial Day, with the goal of recruiting more People Like Us members. Upon starting the job at People Like Us, Evelyn had waited a few days for the co-CEOs, Arun and Jin-ho, to tell her what the membership goals were and how she was supposed to achieve them—go to Spence School pickup with a sign-up sheet? They hadn’t, though. People Like Us was a true start-up: an unrefurbished office in Chelsea, folding tables serving as desks, beige IBMs salvaged from some previous start-up.

The idea for the site, and the funding, came from a Swiss septuagenarian who was a Habsburg and wanted to connect with people of his ilk as he traveled to Dubai or the Maldives. He had hired Arun and Jin-ho, Stanford business school grads, and had left the rest up to them.

They, in turn, seemed to be leaving the membership strategy completely up to Evelyn.

Evelyn started by studying the website New York Appointment Book and the social pages of the Times, trying to get a feel for who was who in society and who People Like Us might want as its American members.

Her notion was that PLU should start with top-tier members to create buzz and exclusivity.

At the top of Evelyn’s list was Camilla Rutherford.

Evelyn had seen Camilla in person only once, when Evelyn was at the bar at Picholine, passing time with an overpriced Old Speckled Hen until Barbara Cook’s Broadway! at the Vivian Beaumont started. The maître d’ was on the phone with someone for a good twenty minutes, giving the person turn-by-turn directions from Chelsea. When Camilla walked in, the waiters hushed as though Madonna had arrived, and the

maître d’ apologized for having given such unclear directions. Evelyn, who had overheard the whole thing, thought they were perfectly clear and wondered why the man was so contrite. Then she glanced at Camilla, and just the fact of the girl’s confidence, not to mention her beautiful hair and perfectly pressed silk blouse, made Evelyn feel wrinkled, her hair greasy, her toenails ratty.

Babs was well aware of Camilla, and had pushed her as a friend even when Evelyn was at Sheffield.

Evelyn had heard of her at Sheffield, of course.

Camilla-from-St. Paul’s was a conversation topic whenever Preston’s New York set returned from vacations. Camilla was now an associate director of special events for Vogue, a job reserved for the beautiful and the chic, women who added luster to parties simply by showing up. On Appointment Book, the one social site that socialites actually read, Camilla emerged as the clear center of Young New York. In a tiered dress the color of milky coffee, Camilla Rutherford lounging on a bench at the Met for its Egyptian-wing party. At the Young Collectors Council for the Guggenheim, in a black silk blouse and zigzag skirt, holding champagne. In a flamenco-looking getup that Evelyn would never have been able to pull off at For Whom the Belles Toll, a Spanish Civil War– themed fund-raiser for the New York Public Library.

Identifying Camilla as a prospect was easy. Signing her up as one was the challenge.

That’s when Evelyn remembered that Camilla had a camp in Lake James, where Preston had his summer place, and she’d known what to do. The way to attract these people was on their literal turf—not on city streets, where any huckster or green-energy evangelist with a clipboard could approach them, but at their hardto-get-to summer homes where Evelyn’s very presence would show she belonged. She’d e-mailed Preston to see if he was spending Memorial Day at Shuh-shuhgah, his Lake James camp, and he’d e-mailed back, “Comme d’habitude.”

“Can I crash?” she’d replied, and his response was a simple, “Oui.” Things with old friends were so nicely simple.

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others. “Look at how the people are interacting,” she’d said. “Why has anyone come to this fund-raiser, other than a love of the library? It’s because their friends asked them. ‘Buy a table.’ ‘Give at the Supporters level.’ That’s how this world works. There are people at the center, and they are the influencers. They set the trends.

They’re the ones who are dictating what parties to go to. Where to vacation. What sites someone might want to sign up for,” she said.

“Focusing on numbers instead of quality is a surefire way to lose any credibility we have with this group. So. We’ll take a page from their own playbook. It’s going to be one-on-one recruitment, oneon-one appeals, just like we’re putting together a library fundraiser.

THE WAY TO ATTRACT THESE PEOPLE WAS ON THEIR LITERAL TURF—NOT ON CITY STREETS, WHERE ANY HUCKSTER OR GREEN-ENERGY EVANGELIST WITH A CLIPBOARD COULD APPROACH THEM, BUT AT THEIR HARD-TO-GET-TO SUMMER AHF>L PA>K> >O>ERG L O>KR PRESENCE WOULD SHOW SHE BELONGED.

A quiet sell.” She’d ordered cards for People Like Us, nice card stock, and handed them out to the staff members who were headed to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons and Aspen for Memorial Day to give to the right sorts. Arun and Jin-ho had been impressed.

Barbara was still jabbering away, and Evelyn walked to her window, where she swiped her finger across the thick grime-dust that had accumulated overnight. “I hadn’t seen Preston in so long before Sheffield-Enfield. Whatever happened with the two of you?”

Barbara said.

“Nothing happened. He was in London for, what, three years? So I barely saw him.”

“His brother, too,” Barbara was saying. “He was a nice young man.

Sheffield turns them out well.”

“Bing went to med school in the Virgin Islands because he couldn’t get in anywhere in the States. And he has, like, an eight-year-old.”

“Well. Don’t rule out men who’ve been married. Divorced men would be very grateful to have someone young and pretty on their arm.”

“Mother, there is an end button on this phone, and I am not afraid to use it.” Evelyn jammed the phone between her shoulder and ear and began tossing clothes in her duffel. Her train was leaving soon.

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“I always thought you and Preston would get married,” Barbara continued. “His manners are lovely and he’s so good at tennis. A man like that would make life easy, Evelyn. Think of how easy it would be to entertain, or go out to parties, with a husband like that. Who actually enjoys social interaction and always has such funny things to say. Preston’s always the belle of the ball. The beau of the ball, I suppose.”

Evelyn folded a thick wool sweater. She had considered it, too— the simple math of her and Preston marrying, leading their lives like a figure eight, doing their own activities during the day, coming together at night for parties and dinners, separating again afterward, presumably taking lovers on the side. She always screened her lifewith-Preston scenes in black and white, accessorized with tiny round martini glasses and long cigarette holders. What she could not imagine was a night alone in the same house—without even getting to the mechanics around avoiding sleeping together, she shuddered at the awful intimacy of his wet toothbrush.

“What is your plan for the summer, Evelyn?”

“Lake James, at the moment.” She knew her mother was asking about the rest of the summer. Some marketing people at her former employer, the textbook publisher, had gone in on a summer share on the Jersey Shore, but even if Evelyn had had the money for that, she didn’t know what to say to those people, who made frat-boy jokes about dirty Sanchezes and quoted Caddyshack. On the other hand, staying in New York in summer wasn’t all that appealing, either; last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.

“You’re doing that so you can do your website sales. At any rate, you can’t just rely on Preston’s mother’s hospitality every weekend.

A single woman is a strain on every hostess. It’s a struggle to find a single man for a dinner partner.”

“Mom. I’m already going to Lake James. Take your victories, okay?

And, for the fourteenth time, it’s not website sales.”

“Did you pack the Lilly?”

Evelyn shook her head. “Good-bye, Mother.” She tapped the phone on the bed, then stuffed the Lilly Pulitzer dress into her bag.

Evelyn dragged her duffel to the creaking elevator and through her building’s lobby. She lived on the Upper East Side, in an apartment she could barely afford despite its being in a “troubling” part of the neighborhood, as her mother put it. When Evelyn had rented it, she had never lived in Manhattan before and didn’t realize desirable real estate changed midblock. This had landed Evelyn in a building called the Petit Trianon, on Seventy-fourth Street on the wrong side of Third. When Barbara sent letters to Evelyn, she always addressed them to Evelyn Topfer Beegan, Le Petit Trianon, as though Evelyn resided at a country estate.

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MY BROWNIE WITH WALLY

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t’s one of those dumb things that sticks in your skin. I was sitting at my desk thinking about it all day, which was strange because it wasn’t like I’d never been called something nasty before. I pride myself on having a thick skin, both literally and figuratively, the best proof of which was not crying when a dermatologist joke-asked if my mother was a rhino given the dense atopic dermatitis on my neck, even though I felt like punching him in the fucking teeth. I, a twenty-five-year-old Jewess, have been called “bitch” too many times to count (mostly during board games), “cunt” three times (while jogging), “kike” twice (while driving), and, once, oddly, “chink” (while eating an ice cream cone in the West Village? Which, I don’t know, is that even a thing people say about that?).

I’ve laughed, shouted back, and ignored where appropriate. But how would you feel if you were in the break room during lunch, minding your own, buzzed from half a pot brownie for breakfast, eating a vegan bean bowl and feeling empowered, skimming the Science section of The Times and feeling pretty good about that too, when from an adjacent table, Greg, the new web designer, snaps his fingers and goes, “I GOT IT,” loud enough for the four others in the break room, including Jeanie with the tooth, to look up from their phones. “I GOT IT,” he said again, looking right at me.

“It’s been killing me for, like, a week and a half but I GOT it.” I wiped beans from my face. “This is so weird but anyone told you that you look like the girl version of Wallace Shawn?” “…as in the playwright and actor and the ‘Inconceivable’ guy? From the Princess Bride?”

“But obviously, you know, cuter. And a girl.”

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was impossible to be truly distracted from my work as content provider at a viral news aggregation website because my business is distraction but that was before Wallace Shawn, the type of man who was born looking old, whose features read “cerebral baby” at best, whose spherical head would serve as a perfect emergency pingpong ball if not for the drippiness of his chin, came sauntering back and perched himself on my shoulder, where I have not been able to shake him since.

“Get out of here, Wallace Shawn,” I heard myself say out loud, but he swung his stubby legs and HO-hummed, cupping his chin. I jumped up to splash my face in the bathroom sink but Wallace Shawn grabbed a hold of my sweater fibers and hung on. In comparing our faces, yes, okay, I saw the pallor, the snub nose, the wrinkle-crunched forehead, and perhaps even a shared roundness, but I had always thought of myself as having the Kirsten Dunst type of head, pocked with good dimples and thinness in all the right places. Was I ugly? Was I unattractive? I hadn’t given it much thought until now, as pretties tend to be gifted with blithe indifference toward the plight of uglies. Dumb Wallace. Dumb Greg, who himself resembles a David Foster Wallace without genius or charm, which is to say that he is dirty and wears a bandana.

Greg was beginning to make our old web designer, the elegantly nicknamed “Tots,” an English creative with no common sense, look like a real winner. Tots, who accidentally stapled his ballsack to his thigh during the Monday meeting, was taken out of the men’s room on a stretcher never to return, not even to collect the fancy British candy in his desk drawer, which we were happy to divide and conquer in true American fashion.

Perhaps I have been painfully unaware that Jeanie with the tooth—and I should say, it is a canine tooth on the left side that is twice the length of a normal canine, not unlike a tusk, and pokes from between her lips, not unlike a Tic Tac, just enough to disrupt her lipline and the otherwise standard landscape of her face and cause

me to stare during the Monday meeting, sometimes feeling bad, sometimes forgetting and wondering if she’d give me a Tic Tac— painfully unaware that Jeanie and I might be the same?

No, no, in addition to having a thick skin, I also pride myself on being highly self aware and evolved, an essential difference between the two of us. Jeanie, who once asked me during trivia at the company picnic who Agent Orange was, is the type of person whose cornbread just isn’t done in the middle, by which I mean she’s about as sharp as a wet bag of mice, two expressions on stupidity borrowed from my freshman year roommate, an evil Virginian belle, bless her heart, whose abhorrent existence is, in my opinion, argument enough for

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Woah, woah, woah. Wallace Shawn, who had infiltrated my Word doc, giggled and shrugged as if to say, Well, is it? I tried to pinch his doll body but, of course, he was ghostly vapor and weed invention, impossible to pinch or know.

I blankly watched the cursor blink and remembered another moment of confusion at old job in the fashion closet of a magazine.

I had picked up a dress fashioned out of a literal potato sack, burlap and inked with “100% IDAHO FARM FRESH,” laughed and said,

I WAS VERY FOND OF MY GRANDMOTHER, EVEN THOUGH SHE USED TO GET UPSET WHEN I WORE SECONDHAND CLOTHING AND WOULD DRAG HER NAILS ACROSS MY OUTFITS TO TRY AND TEAR THEM ;><:NL> LA> MAHN@AM MA:M MA> IK>OBHNL P>:K>K L LHKKHPL WERE WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC.

another Secession, and it’s okay for me to say all of that because Jeanie’s not particularly nice either, as evidenced by her shrugging nod in the break room. Shit, my mouth is dry and I feel like I’m talking too fast.

My cubicle mate, Wuthering Heights, a reedy young woman so named by me for her height and gumption and also because I can never remember her real name, is staring at me sympathetically and for a second, I think that she can see Wallace too, but of course, the dingbat can’t and offers, “Eyedrops, honey?” at which I physically bristle. I get the sense that Wuthering Heights’ staticky hair, Pride and Prejudice tote bag, and empire waist dresses are cultivated solely from film adaptations of romantic literature and believe that she is as much a member of the literati as Austen was a Bronte. “Allergies, got it covered, thanks, honey,” I drip.

It has been pointed out to me that I’m not a very happy person and that I don’t like anyone very much. I’m not sure that’s true but I will say that I have high standards of living and company. I was very fond of my grandmother, even though she used to get upset when I wore secondhand clothing and would drag her nails across my outfits to try and tear them because she thought that the previous wearer’s sorrows were woven into the fabric. She is gone now. I feel that no one cares enough about my soul to shred my skirts anymore. So there is that.

Wallace Shawn hummed random snatches of an Erik Satie Gymnopédie, a string of ambient sadness which I had to Shazam to find the name of as Wallace refused to speak, and became quite annoying as I tried to work again.

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“Good god, you couldn’t pay me enough to wear this.” The stylist came up behind me, plucked it out of my hands and smoothed it lovingly, saying, “It’s a McQueen. You have to break everything down and go back to the basics with this one. It’s almost too fabulous, you know?”

I didn’t know.

My remembered incompetence, newly realized ugliness, and the futility of my current job stacked dangerously as failures of womanhood. I dug into my purse for a sandy piece of Twizzler that I felt in my heart of hearts must be hidden somewhere near the bottom, trying to remember the last time I had gone to the beach and why I could not keep my purses organized like a real lady. I wondered why, the night before, I had cancelled drink plans with my father to smoke, cry into a bag of Popchips and watch three quarters of Mommie Dearest, the cinematic equivalent of eating the whole cake, before passing out.

Why was everyone, including imaginary puffs of famous playwrights and myself, so fogged and difficult to make sense of?

I dwelt briefly on selfishness (mine and that of others) before moving to the love, which, like good pot, is rare, and alternately makes me hungry and dissolves my appetite. I made a note on my blotter to call my dealer and then crossed it out and made a note to call my father and ask him how he was doing with the grandma thing and then I made another note, this one in code to protect from idiot eyes, to steal Greg’s bandana. I am trying to be better but Rome wasn’t built in a day.

“Take me home, Wallace,” I said and we strolled out of the building together, free and dry-eyed and giggly both, into the day waiting outside.

--Caroline Lazar is a recent graduate of Connecticut College and is a recipient of the Abrahms Prize for Fiction. Lazar’s collection of short fiction (“The Thrill of the Chafe”) received the Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for most outstanding honors thesis of 2015.

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he east end’s unofficial, yet much lauded epicurean ambassador, Anna Pump, died tragically last fall in Southampton, N.Y. after she was hit by a pick-up truck. She was 81 years old.

Anna Pump was the chef, cookbook author and proprietor of Sagaponack’s wildly popular gourmet food store, Loaves & Fishes, best known for its breads, desserts, cheeses, salads and freshly prepared take out food catering to locals, tourists, foodies and one percenters such as billionaire businessman Ron Perelman and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.

Pump, as well as her extended family, have been the force behind the newly revamped Bridgehampton Inn & Restaurant, a 12room hotel and fine dining room and the Loaves & Fishes Cookshop.

Clearly ahead of her time, Pump was an early pioneer of the farm-to-table trend that is currently sweeping the globe. Primarily known for focusing on local produce, her menu would oftentimes highlight one ingredient, depending on what was in abundance.

“My mom grew up on a farm in Germany,” says Anna’s daughter Sybille van Kempen.

“My grandparents were pig farmers, so there was a lot of pork, and there were cows, so there was a lot of dairy products. I remember going to the dairy with my grandfather and coming back with pails of milk and butter and cheese. Whatever the dairy was producing. My grandparents were also potato farmers, so there were lots of potatoes, sugar beets, rutabagas and parsnips. All of those 118

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Remembering Anna Pump ingredients usually made a stew. So my mom grew up eating a lot of one pot meals.”

Pump and her late husband, Detlef, emigrated from Germany to New Jersey in the 1970s. The burgeoning chef fell in love with the East End after a family vacation to the area because it reminded her of the Baltic region of Northern Germany by the

Danish border where she grew up.

In 1978 Pump moved her family to the Hamptons, and opened her store in 1980 after purchasing it from its previous owner, a German-bred chef who had trained with James Beard.

To make ends meet during the lean, early years, Pump cooked for Ina Garten’s

“I GREW UP ON A FARM. THERE WERE NO DELICATESSENS AROUND AND WE HAD TO PREPARE AND SERVE A BIG MEAL TO THE FARMHANDS EVERY DAY AT NOONTIME,”

Barefoot Contessa’s Westhampton Beach store. In a telling twist, Garten refers to Pump as her mentor.

Pump did not formally train to become a chef but she did attend finishing school in Germany, which focused on entertaining guests and running a household. “During the War food was pretty simplistic,” says van Kempen, “and my grandmother was a very creative cook – I think that’s where my mom got it from. That’s where she probably learned to be inventive and create dishes that were flavorful for very little money.”

After finding her footing in the Hamptons, Pump took classes with an array of Master Chefs such as James Beard, Maurice MooreBetty and Annemarie Huste. But the most influential to Pump was James Beard, who was known to use fresh ingredients, which struck a chord with Pump because of how she grew up.

“I grew up on a farm. There were no delicatessens around and we had to prepare and serve a big meal to the farmhands every day at noontime,” Pump said in a 2015 interview. “Everything we made came from our grounds and our cows.”

Pump shared her wealth of information with her daughter, who she was grooming to take over the family business.

“I learned so many lessons from my mom. But the most important lesson is that everything matters,” says van Kempen.

“Everything was thoughtful and conscious.

She was always 100 percent present in everything she did and put her efforts into.

That’s the most important lesson. I probably learned patience from her. Which, when running many businesses, and dealing with the different, interesting, scenarios that come up in the service industry, is a positive

thing–patience is a virtue.”

Pump enjoyed working with her family and having everyone near her, but it was her daughter Sybille who was destined to take over the role of matriarch of the Pump family dynasty. “Mom taught me to cook of course,” adds van Kempen. “The rudimentary skills of cooking I learned at home. I did go to cooking school and I got my chef ’s degree. She told me, ‘you have to bring something to the business so go get your degree. Teach me something I don’t know.’ We had a wonderful collaboration.

We worked together about 35 years, almost every day. I had the best of the best.”

There should be upsides and downsides to going into business with your family, but Sybille couldn’t think of one downside.

“It’s fabulous. The key is you have to love each other and you have to like and respect each other and you have to pull your own weight,” says van Kempen. “Mom was big on that. My youngest son has been a manager for the last five years and he learned the same lessons I did. Mainly, the importance of giving 100 percent. When we work, we have so much to talk about as a family. Everyone has their own interests, their own ideas, their own passions. We always sit patiently and let everyone have their word at the table.”

Pump will be remembered for spearheading the farm to table movement on the East End as well as for her congeniality, passion and hospitality.

“When people think of my mother I want them to remember what a wonderful person she was, and what a wonderful cook she was and how generous she was,” says van Kempen.

In addition to her daughter, Anna Pump is survived by a son, Harm; three sisters– Johanna, Dienchen and Thea–as well as four grandchildren.

--Christy Smith-Sloman is a journalist and playwright in New York City. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including TODAY.com, The Hollywood Reporter and Marie Claire. Her latest play, “Negative Is Positive” was produced at Theater For The New City in November 2014.

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By Anna Pump

HOW IT ALL BEGAN It’s been twenty-five years since that fateful day when, having heard there was a small cooking store for sale in Sagaponack, Long Island, I drove over and looked it over carefully. A soft natural light spilled in from the bank of windows in front and on one side of the main room, which made the room appear larger than it was. I walked behind the wooden counter and into the kitchen, which seemed to be just the right proportions for someone like me who had catered parties for years, mostly from my own country kitchen in Noyac, sometimes using my customers’ kitchens, and many times on outdoor grills under vast tents. The store—already called Loaves and Fishes— 120

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was cozy, and I was able to see that its size was certainly manageable. Its embracing atmosphere made me feel immediately at home, and after spending more time inside and then outside in the small, charming garden I decided that I had to buy it.

My husband, Detlef, and I scrubbed the inside from top to bottom, repainted everything white, even the floors, made sure all the facilities were in A-1 condition, weeded the back garden, and planted herbs and vegetables. As we worked, I allowed my imagination to run rampant; new recipes began cluttering my brain, ideas that I had been yearning to test and try but had no space in which to develop were now

in almost my every thought. I was, at the same time, excited and terrified. Time flew by at an alarming rate. The season was to begin in approximately two weeks from the time Detlef and I finally mopped our way out the back door. I began buying, storing, planning, baking—I felt as if I had suddenly sprouted eight arms, all of them moving simultaneously. Suddenly, it seemed, opening day was upon us. I had not stopped, filling the shelves with my own freshly baked breads, scones, muffins, pies, and cakes; the cookie jars were gradually filling to their brims, each food bin held new and, I hoped, innovative salads, meats, pastas, grains, and vegetables. Ducks and chickens, crisp and still steaming, were slid off the spits and lined up on a huge wooden tray. Room was made for the savory tarts and the whole roasts, sliced, garnished, and ready to go. Pâtés, dips, dressings, sauces, and hors d’oeuvres were placed in my brand-new freezer and I can’t even remember what else, but, believe me, there was more, much more.

When our doors opened, I had been there since before 4:00 a.m., the time when our ovens needed to be turned on for the day’s baking. I slipped on a clean and starched white jacket and opened the front door.

The shock on my face must have been quite apparent because the first few customers in the line that stretched to the road and curled up its side smiled back at me, and some laughed at my surprised expression. I welcomed everyone inside, and within a few short hours I was putting more ducks and chickens on the spits, whipping up more salads, and taking orders for parties of ten to forty. At around 4:00 p.m. I sat down and treated myself to a cup of strong coffee and a cookie. I felt a glow of extreme pleasure.

It had become apparent that this was possibly the beginning of the most exciting, challenging, and demanding part of my life.

Looking back at it with today’s perspective, it was. And still is.

Summer, for me, begins when the first signs of spring appear, when the earth is launched on its gradual thaw and we can almost sense life beginning to unfold beneath our feet. Windows stay open and breezes begin to usher in intoxicating aromas. Honeybees begin circling fresh flowers or plants that have blossomed overnight. Rows of seedlings in the garden

behind Loaves and Fishes begin their greening, and as far as the eye can see, all along the village streets and country roads, plumpish buds are ready to dazzle us with their gorgeous palettes.

It’s when April arrives that I begin my early morning ritual of bicycling to the beach. The air is crystal clear, crisp and incredibly invigorating.

As I pedal down the hilly road to Main Beach, I pass the seafood shop where our local fishermen, still in their hip-high rubber boots, are delivering crates filled with their catches of the day; seagulls are swirling overhead.

I immediately imagine recipes dealing with fish, shrimp, scallops, lobster. I make a mental note to check out what is the freshest and when to expect a delivery to the store.

The air is beginning to warm up as I eventually reach town where the vintage homes are being dressed up for the season; new paint, new cedar shingles, new roofs, flower boxes with baby buds peeking over the rims, trees being pruned, lawns resodded, and behind one house, I can see a young woman scrubbing her grill on the back patio.

cheese on sale, local and divine. Green strawberry fields are dotted in red.

Hand-painted signs that invite anyone to pick your own remind me of a time, not long ago, when we brought our grandchildren to these annual rituals; their fingers, shirts, and mouths would be stained pink at the end of our outings.

Ripe peaches fresh from the fruit stand are best when simply peeled, sliced, and eaten as is. This tart is a close second. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

Crust 1¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon sugar 8 tablespoons (4 ounces) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces 1 egg yolk 1/4 cup very cold water 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) unsalted butter, melted Filling 1/3 cup apricot preserves 7 peaches (about 2 pounds), peeled, pitted, and sliced 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) unsalted butter, softened 1/4 cup sliced almonds 1/3 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch

I LOVE SUMMER. Farmers have plowed their fields, potatoes and corn are planted. Outdoor farm stands have begun to display freshly picked young vegetables: baby peas, beans, spinach, white eggplants, greens of all sorts, and baskets overflowing with zucchini, their large, drooping flowers hanging over the edges. What will my customers, many of whom have become close friends over the years, like me to suggest they buy?

How should it be prepared? Questions like what reheats well? What is best served chilled? Which foods are safe to bring to the beach? How long does this or that salad, meat, cheese, or vegetable last—these are ones I answer many times each day.

I am delighted to discover fresh goat

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I love preparing food in summer because it’s when the freshest produce is so easily accessible and cooking options become limitless. It is my season. The best time to spread my wings, be creative, be inspired, be challenged and like those buds in our flower boxes, I actually feel blessed by the sun and raring to blossom.

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From Summer on a Plate- More than 120 Delicious No-Fuss Recipes for Memorable Meals from Loaves and Fishes

by Anna Pump and Gen LeRoy. Copyright © 2008 by Anna Pump and Gen LeRoy. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Photographs copyright © 2008 by Alan Richardson

> To make the crust, place the flour, sugar, and butter in a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Pulse the mixture 4 times. Add the egg yolk and, with the motor running, pour the water into the feed tube. Process until dough starts to cling together. > Transfer the dough to a countertop and gather it into a ball. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes or longer. > Brush the melted butter onto the bottom and sides of a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. > Roll out the chilled dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness. > Fit into tart pan, pressing dough over the bottom and up the sides. Freeze the tart shell 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400°F. > From freezer to oven, bake the shell 15 minutes. > Spread the apricot preserves with a brush over the bottom of the baked crust. Arrange the peaches evenly over the preserves. Dot with the softened butter. > Scatter the almonds over the top. Mix the sugar and cornstarch together and sprinkle it over the tart.

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The brainchild of Kent residents Ben and Donna Rosen, KentPresents began as an intimate conversation in summer 2014 about how there should be an ideas festival in the east, since the west has had its Aspen Ideas Festival every summer since 2005. With the twopart mission of “sharing and disseminating great ideas, and supporting local charities that serve people in need,” the Rosens turned their attention to making their vision for KentPresents a reality.

“I didn’t want to focus on a single topic,” Ben Rosen explained. “I’d done tech conferences in the 1960s and 1970s, and that was an altogether different sort of animal.

People came to advance their careers, to network and make connections. For our festival, we wanted to identify some of the vital issues of the day and get experts in each field to share what they know with people who want to know more. We were selling, in effect, informed conversations. And we wanted different viewpoints.”

Donna Rosen added, “When we decided on the name KentPresents, we were leaving our options open. We could do what we wanted going forward, even have performances. We weren’t locked into a single concept.”

Key to the initial success of KentPresents was the support of the Rev. Richardson W. Schell, headmaster of the Kent School, who provided

of Galerie Simonne Stern in New Orleans for 23 years until she moved to New York in 2002. She serves on boards that include The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Orleans Museum of Art Executive Committee, The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering, the Women’s Committee of Central Park Conservancy, the American Friends of the British Museum, and the Venetian Heritage Society.

The first festival drew 300 attendees. Economist Paul Krugman was there, as were author and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, environmentalist Stewart Brand, and biographer Edmund Morris – to name just a few. Sessions included “Cancer – Recent Advances in Research, Implications for Prevention and Treatment,” “Understanding Islamic Extremism,” “Dealing with Iran,” “GMOs – Dangerous, or Panacea?” and “Guns in America.”

So successful was the inaugural festival that the Rosens aren’t sure what, if any, changes to make for 2016. Post-event surveys confirmed that KentPresents exceeded all expectations, with 90 percent of respondents rating the overall experience “Excellent,” and 87 percent saying they would be likely to return the following year.

The ticket price for the 2016 three-day event is $2,500 ($2,200 is tax-deductible), far less expensive than Aspen Ideas at $3,500 per ticket. The philanthropist Agnes Gund provided a number of free tickets to local people for the 2015 inaugural event. Because a major objective of the festival is to raise funds for local non-profits, ticket prices have to be high, but in the future the Rosens hope to enlist donors and sponsors to help reduce ticket prices. Still, the size of the festival will remain small to keep the intimate feeling.

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By Elizabeth Titus the venue free of charge. Ben Rosen sent Schell an email on July 27, 2014, and even though Schell was in China at the time, he replied within minutes that he’d love to help and could provide space anytime in August 2015.

Once they had a venue, the Rosens set up a 29-member board of advisers, starting with thought leaders they knew personally in fields ranging from science and technology to government and the arts. The board includes such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Jasper Johns, Henry Kissinger, and Harold Varmus.

The festival soon took on a life of its own and became the full-time work (mission) of this energetic couple whose lives have been filled with singular achievements.

Ben Rosen co-founded the venture capital company Sevin Rosen Funds in 1981 and that same year invested in Compaq Computer Corporation, where he served as chairman for 18 years. Additional investments included scores of high-tech start-ups, including Electronic Arts and Lotus Development. He’s emeritus member of the board of overseers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering and chairman emeritus and life trustee of Caltech, where he and his wife established The Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center in 2008. Donna Rosen was Director/Owner

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The amount KentPresents donated in 2015 was $100,000, and the Rosens hope that this amount will increase in 2016.

Ben and Donna Rosen have embarked on a mission that they hope will outlive them, enriching for years to come the community they love.

--Elizabeth Titus has been a journalist, an English teacher, an advertising executive, a communications director and speechwriter (15 years at American Express), and a marketing consultant. Now a freelance writer, she lives in New York City and Weston, CT.

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been more of a mystery. A mystery, that is, until Crutchfield began researching its score.

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Crutchfield, more than anyone else, is

responsible for returning Aureliano to audiences. The performance of Aureliano in Palmira at Caramoor will be its first in the United States, over 200 years after the work’s premiere.

Aureliano tells the factual story of Emperor Aurelian’s war with Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, in modern day Syria, and her expansionist campaign in the far reaches of the Roman dominion. The opera also involves a love triangle between Aurelian, Zenobia and her lover Arsace.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was 21 years old when he wrote the opera and fresh off the successes of Tancredi and The Italian Girl in Tangiers. He would be catapulted to international fame with The Barber of Seville in 1816. In between these successes fell Aureliano, which premiered at La Scala on December 26, 1813. The premiere, says Crutchfield, was “iffy.” The opera was changed to accommodate a last minute cast change because the tenor fell ill. The performance was therefore less than optimal. In the end, Milanese audiences did not take to the opera. Although it played in approximately 80 theaters around Italy, it was considered, according to Crutchfield, “a relative flop.”

Paradoxically, the familiarity of its overture partially explains Aureliano’s obscurity. Rossini knew he had good material in the opera, so he

cannibalized it. “The overture and a couple is just as much a masterpiece as any of the great rhythmic energy, great verve and tunes went into the Barber of Seville, and that Rossini operas that came before or after it. spirit and great architectural construction became a runaway hit,” explains Crutchfield. “That was really exciting,” says Crutchfield. of the ensembles. Each Rossini opera has “And that would have meant that if Rossini The rediscovery of this opera did not go something unique, a scene that doesn’t went back to Aureliano he would have had to unnoticed in the music world. It won Best occur anywhere else. In this case it’s the replace those things with something else.”

Rediscovered Work at the 2015 International love story, the romantic element. There is According to Rossini scholar and Opera Awards. no other Rossini opera that follows a couple biographer Richard Osborne, the composer The opera contains more writing for the through its romantic journey the way this likely considered the work “off-limits” after chorus than any other early Rossini opera, one does. It is clothed in some of the most he had gutted it. Osborne says some parts of the score did well as recital pieces for WILL CRUTCHFIELD singers after 1830. The opera itself fell into CONDUCTING AT CARAMOOR obscurity twenty years after its premiere. In an email Osborne writes, “This was the fate of many Rossini operas, once he had retired from composition of operas (but not from composition itself) in 1829 and once he had left Paris in the late 1830s.”

So how did Crutchfield bring it back?

Aureliano in Palmira is one of three Rossini operas for which there is no original manuscript. Determining the original composition, what exactly Rossini had created before he abandoned the work, was the task given to Crutchfield. Commissioned by the Rossini Opera Festival and working with the Rossini Foundation and music publisher Ricordi, Crutchfield examined 30 versions of the score, most dating to 1830, in order to create what’s known as the critical edition.

The manuscripts average gorgeous music he ever wrote.”

The performance of Aureliano in 1500 pages in length. Since Aureliano in Palmira will they were copied by hand, Palmira at Caramoor will be its first in have its U.S. premiere in a semimistakes naturally occurred. In the United States, over 200 years after staged production at Caramoor parsing through these copies to Center for Music and the Arts on the work’s premiere. create the critical edition, says Saturday July 16. Will Crutchfield Crutchfield, “You’re trying to build a tree and explains Crutchfield. And there’s that will conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. The get to the root, which is the lost original.” famous overture. principal singers will be Andrew Owens What Crutchfield discovered is that the 80 “The overture, which the whole world (Aureliano), Georgia Jarman (Zenobia), and performances during Rossini’s lifetime as well as knows,” says Crutchfield, “in this opera is Tamara Mumford (Arsace). the modern revivals were based on an abridged integrated into the story as well.” The way At 3:00 pm, audiences can attend a preversion of the Aureliano score. Looking at the it comes back in the opera, according to opera event: Detective Story. Daniele discrepancy between library copies, not meant Crutchfield, is not at all comic. “You hear Carnini, editorial director of the Rossini for circulation, and performance copies of the that overture in a completely different way Foundation, and Aureliano editor Will score, showed that Rossini had written an extra when you hear how it is used in the story.” Crutchfield will discuss how they spent a 30 minutes of music.

That story is dark and also psychologically year deducing what Rossini’s lost original “We knew this was really a special opera. interesting. “It’s a story of how the manuscript must have said.

It’s a fascinating example of how things like conquered people have to come to terms Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts: this were dependent on circumstances.” with being conquered by Rome. The people 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, NY One of the best pieces of the score, a duet we are sympathetic with in the opera are the caramoor.org between Aurelio and Arsace in the first act, ones defending their homeland. They lose.”

--was never performed at La Scala. “Probably,” Love becomes the characters’ means of Natalie Axton is a writer in North says Crutchfield, “because it was too late survival, an unusual storyline for Rossini. Salem, NY. She is the founder of Critical for this poor [replacement] tenor to learn Crutchfield explains, “Anyone who has Read, an online source for writing about everything in the role.” ever loved a Rossini opera will love this important works of the fine, literary, and The restored Aureliano, says Crutchfield, one. It has the familiar Rossini virtues – performing arts.

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From the Sidelines

By Suzanne Clary

The Horse Show Bride and Groom

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hich do we enjoy watching many others like it, “The National” was assured more? The horses or the instant success. hats? Every May, just as the The sport of riding was an expensive one and azaleas in our gardens start not surprisingly facilitated by belonging to a to pop, most of America directs its attention club. By 1891, the galloping growth of private to the Kentucky Derby and “the two most exciting minutes in sports.” Equally diverting is the pastime of critiquing straw boaters and feathered fascinators while sipping a julep or two. But in 1883 all the action was here in New York in November. The event to see, and be seen at, was the National Horse Show at the old Madison Square Garden. Just like today, the many splendors of competition in jumping and dressage at the Horse Show were mirrored or even outshined by the elaborate outfits of the riders and spectators that made headlines as far away as Chicago. “There were thoroughbreds in the ring and thoroughbreds in the boxes.”

Another column described the MRS. ADELAIDE MCGIBBON ON HER social whir, “[A]ll this week CHAMPION SADDLE HORSE ROSALIND wealth and fashion will vie with AS FEATURED IN A 1910 ISSUE OF COUNTRY LIFE. the equine aristocracy of the country in attracting attention for it is with the horse show that New York’s clubs in America rivaled those established winter social season customarily begins.” in London. One writer who observed The week-long, pre-Thanksgiving extrava- country institutions in Tuxedo, Pelham and ganza was founded by a group of New York Cedarhurst, Long Island rightly concluded, men, many of whom were members of the Rid- “The raison d’etre of most of these clubs is the ing and Driving Club of Brooklyn, a trot’s dis- horse.” Horses of course needed sizable and tance from Prospect Park. Despite its deceptive comfortable quarters, as did their owners. name, the originating association was a purely In New York, the Riding Club at 7 West 58th equestrian-minded brotherhood (though they Street, provided members with stabling as generously, or perhaps begrudgingly, provided well as “a good-sized ring for exercise, dining access and dressing rooms for their equally rooms, and (of which there can hardly be too accomplished wives and daughters). As an many) bath-rooms and dressing rooms…The outgrowth of this well-subscribed club and man who has had an hour’s exercise in the Park 150

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and has got in a perspiration…and is in danger of getting a cold before he gets home. Hence the advantage of being able to dress and have a bath where his horse is kept.”

The equestrian amphitheatre was not solely for men. Women were not excluded from either the riding or training of horses in the same way that they might be diminished in other competitive arenas. If anything, exhibiting at a horse show gave women a spotlight where they could excel. One of the standout female riders of the period was Cornelia Adelaide Doremus.

She began riding at ten years old encouraged by her father Cornelius Doremus, a giant in the New York insurance industry and a member of the aforesaid Flatbush fraternity.

Adelaide began exhibiting horses at 15. For 12 years she rode one of the most successful saddle horses ever known. Her horse, named Chester, was himself a native New Yorker raised in Gravesend, Long Island by another prominent horsewoman, the legendary Clara Ridley Gerken. Women were known to run thoroughbred farms in the West and South but Clara’s estate, called Gerkendale, was the only establishment of its kind on the East Coast managed and owned by a woman. Her 23-acre showplace produced horses that won over 300 coveted awards at state fairs and horse shows from Syracuse to Philadelphia to White Plains. Her sleek champions easily held their own with the purest of their Kentucky peers. Reporters uniformly deflected any notion that Gerken’s profession might be unsuitable for a woman – she was “not a bit ‘horsey’ in appearance…

with the atmosphere of the stable clinging to her... she is delightfully feminine at all times; her voice is soft and musical; she wears dainty draperies when outside the practice rig and there is nothing muscular in her physique, except perhaps her wrists which are like steel.”

Similarly, the unflappable and high energy Adelaide Doremus was admired and lauded for her dominance in the ring. In November 1907 she was crowned “the horse show bride” by the harness and saddle set when she married Canadian born William A. McGibbon just two weeks before the 23rd National Horse Show and, gasp! continued to enter the show and won handily. There is no hint that she bore her nickname with

TROTTING HORSES ON FIFTH AVENUE CIRCA 1870 BELOW: 1928 DEDICATION PLAQUE TO JOHN MCENTEE BOWMAN

WOMEN WERE NOT EXCLUDED FROM EITHER THE RIDING OR TRAINING OF HORSES IN THE SAME WAY THAT THEY MIGHT BE DIMINISHED IN OTHER COMPETITIVE ARENAS. anything but big blue ribbon pride. Her husband, a successful rider, trainer, salesman and horse show juror, was self-made. Known on the circuit for breaking the record in high jumps, he was a much sought after dealer in saddle horses. In 1909, he and Adelaide moved from the city to Park Avenue, Rye (a street named for the great philanthropist and Westchester landowner, Joseph Park). When the American Horse Exchange on Broadway where McGibbon did business closed the following spring of 1910, William lost his Manhattan headquarters. What to do? The couple quickly seized an opportunity just across the Boston Post Road – a lease of two buildings, a carriage house and a barn built

by Frank A. Rooke, the same architect of the famed Claremont Riding Academy.

Everyone knew Claremont Stables.* Built by Rooke in 1892 on the Upper West Side, it was conveniently located a block and a half from trails in Central Park. Its suburban counterparts in Rye boasted similar architectural features and amenities, and were located on a sizable parcel known as the Van

Norden Farm. Miles of stone walls surrounded acres of pasture and paddocks. “Dealers in fine horses nowadays require fine stables and attractive surroundings when showing their animated art objects to prospective purchasers.

Some of the sales places and training quarters opened in and about New York in the last few years far surpass anything that was dreamed of by dealers in olden times…[the McGibbon track has] plenty of grass and water and other accessories of a model training establishment.

His customers find it convenient and enjoyable to run out to the farm by train or in their automobiles, and the suburban sales place is proving to be altogether satisfactory.

The McGibbons leased the property in 1911 and successfully sold and trained horses

there for a number of years for Westchester and Connecticut clients, including Adelaide’s brother Fred Doremus in Greenwich. At that time the number of horses in America was at an all time high of 23 million. But that number would begin to fall as other means of transportation presented themselves.

The first gas-powered car in the States was sold in 1896. It wasn’t long after that, that automobiles began to crowd out horsedrawn buggies on city streets; in rural areas, motorized tractors quickly supplanted stock horses. Carriage houses in Manhattan were retrofitted to hold Renaults and Pierce Arrows. Herringbone brick floors once strewn with straw now glistened with gas and oil drips. Many of the members of the Riding and Driving Club now owned both a car and a horse, or sometimes just a car.

The most precipitous drop in the horse population began after the Great War in 1918, this despite earlier efforts by even the US government to sustain and document “pure” American breeds like the Morgan, American Saddle Horse and Standardbred for military mounts. In the private sector, while public fancy was captured by Henry Ford’s design, there were still others dedicated to “the preservation of the horse.” This included the best man at Adelaide and William McGibbon’s wedding, John Bowman. Like McGibbon, Bowman was also Canadian and came from modest beginnings. His first job was as a W E STO N MA G AZINEG ROUP.COM

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groom in a horse stable, but he would soon become one of the most successful hoteliers in the country. In June 1919, Town and Country announced the marriage of Adelaide’s niece, Clarice Paterson, to John McEntee Bowman just as ground was broken for the exclusive Westchester-Biltmore in Rye. “Jack” Bowman purchased 600 acres of the old Park estate; he wanted to create a place that would be “the Mecca of smart New Yorkers” as well as venue for recreation and fine, sportsmanlike competition. In addition to commissioning Walter Travis to design manicured golf links that would surely impress his mother-in-law Myra Paterson, the president of the Eastern Golf Association, Bowman built stables and hired landscape architect Charles Leavitt to sculpt riding trails that encircled the club; in his heart he was a horse lover and he envisioned an elegant place for polo and al fresco horse exhibitions. In his lifetime he belonged to the Turf and Field Club, the Central Park Riding Club, the Greenwich Country Club, the Greenwich Riding Association; he became 152

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IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, WHILE PUBLIC FANCY WAS CAPTURED BY HENRY FORD’S DESIGN, THERE WERE STILL OTHERS DEDICATED TO “THE PRESERVATION OF THE HORSE.” president of the National Horse Show in 1925.

The Westchester-Biltmore opened to wide acclaim in 1922 at a cost of over $6 million.

Bowman had overseen its construction from his home, “Stonehedge” in nearby Port Chester.

But despite his venture’s popularity and beauty, poor business decisions forced Bowman to sell the club to its members in 1929. He died two years later at age 56, but is forever memorialized by a plaque in the lobby of today’s Westchester

Country Club that correctly hails him as “A Patron of Clean Sport.” Bowman envisioned providing nineteen different activities for privileged members, four that included horses; while this wealth of offerings is captured forever in bronze, only a handful of these pursuits are practiced at the club today – golf, tennis, squash and swimming have outlasted aerial barnstorming, boxing, archery and polo.

The McGibbons and Bowman’s wife survived him. William’s lease at the Van Norden Farm ended. He spent less and less time in the horse selling and training business, though he and Adelaide continued to serve as judges in shows throughout the metropolitan area. Instead McGibbon took on various positions at Westchester Country Club supervising the grooming of the grounds. He and his horse show bride both died in 1942 just months apart at their home of over 30 years, down the road from where their much beloved American saddle mares used to run. *The Claremont holds the title of oldest continuously operated equestrian stable in New York City, only just closing its doors less than a decade ago in 2007. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

--Suzanne Clary is the President of the Jay Heritage Center.

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The 1907 Van Norden Carriage House that once was McGibbon’s Saddle Horse Training Center is open for tours and visitors weekdays, Wednesday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm, March 1 through December 1.

The grounds are open year round until dusk.

The Next Chapter

By Leslie Epstein Pearson

Designing a Life for Life challenge to us as the reality of parenting a special needs child of unknown disabilities.

It is my experience that most parents are ill equipped to stay in the present. All parents wonder when their child will take her first steps or what his first words will be. Where will they go to college, will they have a successful career, whom will they marry? We were no different. However, we didn’t know if there would ever be words or steps and thinking about college and careers was off the table. The neurosurgeon and neurologist said, “Of course, there will be words and steps,” but we chose to ignore all predictions because they were just that, predictions.

When I look back over the past 26 years, there have JACOB'S CLASS PHOTO AGE 3 been joys and sorrows. There has, more importantly, been y son jacob turns 26 this year. acceptance of who Jacob is and a celebration Most parents celebrate the of all he has achieved. That being said, the day reliving memories and most difficult times have always been and reflecting on the person their will continue to be around transitions. child has become. I will do the same on Transitions are usually stressful; many of Jacob’s birthday. The only difference is that us don’t love change. Transitions are even Jacob is not typically developing. He had a more challenging when you are designing a stroke when he was 6 days old. life for life. That is what we are doing for our That event sent us off on a journey with son. How do we move him along his path, no map. Early on my husband and I decided respecting who he is but still prepare him not to believe any prognosis – because if for a life of his own, away from his Mom you believe the glass half full professionals and Dad? Eventually your disabled child then you must also consider the glass half will become an adult, and, depending on the empty crowd. We chose to attempt to live disabilities, will require a support system in the moment. This was as much of a that will continue after you are gone.

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MOVING THROUGH THE TRANSITIONS

When your child hits double digits and you believe that he/she may have the ability to live outside of the family home as an adult (as long as there are supports), what should you be considering? How should you be preparing?

This is all very personal. Some families don’t even want to consider having their child live outside of the family home, while some families are certain that by age 21, if possible, they want their child to live elsewhere. There is no right or wrong answer.

Your choice, however, will have a significant impact on how you plan the next ten years. If you decide that you would like your child to eventually live apart from you, I strongly suggest a plan that might contribute to making this a reality.

Has your child ever slept at someone else’s house? Would you consider a sleep-away camp program, even for a week or two?

Suggest that your child begin by sleeping at a relative’s house for a night. Once that is successful, build on that experience. Many special needs children are reluctant to leave home, understandably. And many parents are very worried about their children being away from their safe and nurturing households.

The camp or sleepover experience is actually as important for parents as it is for the child.

In our household, we spoke regularly about all children leaving home some day.

Jacob had the added benefit of an older sibling who paved the way. That’s not always the case, but there might be a neighbor or a cousin who can help to set the stage for the future. We were pretty clear that Jacob would go away to his kind of college, just like his sister. Of course, we didn’t really know if this would actually come to pass, but we decided to act like it would.

If your child is not going to be living away from the family home, there is still much thinking and planning that needs to be done. What kinds of programs are available after age 22? Are there programs that you can connect to while your child is in high school? Will you need some respite at times?

Do you have a support system to make that possible? You may need to create your own “circle of friends,” a group of individuals who care about your child and your family and are willing to be supportive. It is critically important to begin to think about who else is in your child’s life and if they can be counted on to step in if necessary.

You cannot do this alone.

Parenting a child with disabilities has no end date. This is truly a lifelong journey. You will never be done and a plan is only good until it stops working. This is the real difference between parenting a typically developing child and a special needs child. With your typically developing child there is a good chance that your child will be launched by his or her early to mid-twenties (with exceptions, of course.)

However, with your special needs child, parents, family and friends will always be involved.

Jacob attended Chapel Haven, a life skills and vocational training school in New Haven, CT and has been living independently for almost five years in an apartment close by. He receives one hour of support a week. When people ask what he does, I answer: “He lives the life of a homemaker. He cooks, he cleans, he exercises and socializes, and he volunteers.”

Jacob recently started a two-hour a week paid job at a gift shop in New Haven. He has a job coach with him, provided by the Department of Social Services of Connecticut. When he received his first paycheck he was ecstatic. It didn’t matter that the three small checks only totaled $82. It meant he was employed and joyous about the life he is leading. And that makes me smile.

--Leslie Epstein Pearson LCSW is a clinical social worker and family therapist with a private practice focused on navigating life’s transitions, particularly for families raising children with disabilities. LeslieEpsteinPearson.com

TRI-STATE RESOURCES Designing a life for life is not an easy task. It entails lots of research and planning.

Parents must apply for entitlements like SSI, (Supplemental Security Income) and access to OPWDD, (Office for People With Developmental Disabilities) in New York, and DDS, (Department of Developmental Services) in Connecticut, prior to age 22.

Fortunately, many of the public school systems or private special needs schools help out in this process, but once your child ages out of school, it is as if you just stepped off a cliff.

There is minimal guidance provided by the states. Information about resources and living options is difficult to access. There are few residential opportunities in either New York or Connecticut and the push to keep disabled adult children at home is growing. I know this all sounds daunting. Fortunately, parents have many years to become savvy about the systems, but keep in mind that the rules often (CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE)

EVENTUALLY YOUR DISABLED CHILD WILL BECOME AN ADULT, AND, DEPENDING ON THE DISABILITIES, WILL REQUIRE A SUPPORT SYSTEM THAT WILL CONTINUE AFTER YOU ARE GONE.

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change from administration to administration.

Identify the agencies in your area that you have the most respect for. There are resources at agencies in New York like YAI and AHRC and special interest groups depending on your child’s particular disability. There are also professionals who can help, special needs attorneys, social workers and psychologists who can help you to map out this journey.

INDEPENDENT RESIDENTIAL LIVING OPTIONS

Connecticut Vista Vocational A community based educational program for adults with neurological disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders, brain injury, a learning disability or epilepsy. Most individuals have completed secondary education, yet they require an additional residential educational program to transition to adulthood. All of Vista’s educational and support services are designed to enable the 160+ adults they serve to succeed in work and to live as independently as possible in the community.

Westbrook, CT. (860) 399-8080 x136 www.vistavocational.org Chapel Haven The Reach Program Chapel Haven offers an intensive 24 month Residential Life Skills program that focuses on teaching the individual to negotiate all aspects of independent living.

Most students who graduate from the REACH program remain in New Haven.

Graduates are known as community members. There are 170+ Community Members.

ASAT This program for adults with Asperger’s Syndrome is designed to be a transition to independent adult life. The focus is to assist adults in developing social competencies.

Many individuals attend college while participating in the program.

1040 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT. (203) 397-1714; www.chapelhaven.org Westchester County The POINT Program This program in White Plains supports young 26 WWEESTO 156 STONNMA MAGGAAZZI INNEEGGRRO OUUPP. C. CO OMM

adults, ages 21 and older, with developmental and learning disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, in living independently in apartments located throughout downtown White Plains. Participants engage in a variety of vocational, life skills training, and social activities and enjoy the camaraderie of others with oversight provided by Westchester Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Childcare Association.

POINT director: Barbara Greene, MPH. (914) 761-0600 x175; www.point@wjcs.com New Jersey Jespy House This program is suited to adults with learning and developmental disabilities who demonstrate the ability to live independently and potentially gain competitive employment. Jespy House offers a life skills program and job training.employment opportunities.

South Orange, N.J. (973) 762-6909 www.jespyhouse.org Other Transition Programs Chapel Haven West Located in Tucson and associated with the University of Arizona, Chapel Haven West serves students on the autism spectrum and those with mild developmental disabilities, teaching them to live independent and productive lives.

(877) 824-9378 or (520) 624-9378 x101 www.chapelhaven.org/west College Living Experience – CLE Provides post-secondary supports to students with autism, ADHD and other exceptionalities.

Centers are in close proximity to colleges and cultural arts. Locations in Texas, California, Colorado, Florida and Washington, D.C. (800) 486-5058 www.experiencecle.com CIP-College Internship Program Comprehensive postsecondary programs that offer transitioning young adults on the autism spectrum or with learning differences, the social, academic, career and life skills supports for success. Locations in New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Florida and California.

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Summer Sleep-away Camps Camp Northwood Located in Remsen, NY, serves a coed population of 165 children ages 8-18 who are socially immature, learning challenged and high functioning autistic children in need of structure and individualized attention. With a 2:1 camper/counselor ratio, non-competitive recreational programming and focus on social skill development, enables students to experience acceptance in a camp community.

(315) 831-3621 www.nwood.com Camp Ramah of New England – Tikvah Program Located in Palmer, MA, Camp Ramah is one of the first summer programs for Jewish Children with disabilities. They serve campers with a wide range of disabilities, including developmental and intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and neurological impairments. There is a camp program –Amitzim, for ages 13-18; Tochnit Avodah – a vocational training program for ages 18 and up and an Inclusion program for younger campers.

Bonnie Schwartz, Psy.D, Tikvah Director: (781) 400-0204 bonnies@campramahne.org Round Lake Camp An inclusive camp in Milford, Pennsylvania for 7-18 year olds. Campers are able to integrate into all mainstream activities based on their level of comfort and interest. Campers’ schedules are individualized based on their needs and request.

(570) 296-8596 x145 RLC@njycamps.org Camp Lee Mar Located in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, Camp Lee Mar is a 7-week residential summer program for campers ages 7-21.

There is a strong academic and speech program combined with traditional camp activities. Campers have mild to moderate learning and developmental challenges including Down Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD and Fragile X. (215) 658-1708 www.leemar.com

MT. BETHEL VILLAGE

Mt. Bethel Village Mt. Bethel Village is a unique residential and day program for adults with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries or other support needs. The community is an apartment building designed for residents who are mostly independent and without significant medical issues. The environment encourages independence and friendly interaction among residents and day program participants and features a 24-hour support staff, a dedicated chef and architectural features designed to minimize unwanted stimulation among

adults on the autism spectrum. The New Jersey Department of Human Services, through the Division of Developmental Disabilities, accepts applications for fully subsidized apartments at Mt. Bethel Village, an arrangement that suggests a model for future subsidized housing programs.

“It’s really the blending of private business and government that I had always envisioned,” says Herb Heflich, Chief Operating Officer of Mt. Bethel Village, who helped pioneer assisted living as a long-term solution for seniors.

Mt. Bethel’s total capacity is 41 with most of the residents paying privately. Rents range

from $4,200 to $8,000 a month.

“Yes, it’s expensive,” admits Heflich. “But our community provides a safe and fun environment, modern amenities, full dining facilities, an included day program, a gym, computer lab and an outstanding, experienced staff. Our families have given us rave reviews and we’ve had nothing but support from elected officials.”

Mt. Bethel Village is located at: 130 Mt. Bethel Road, Warren, NJ. More information is available at: mtbethelvillage.com or by calling 908-757-7000

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TOP TO BOTTOM: ANDREW BOLTON IN THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY, A MAGNOLIA PICTURES RELEASE. PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES EXHIBITION UPDATE MEETING. SYLVANA WARD DURRETT, ANNA WINTOUR, NATHAN CROWLEY, MIKE HEARN AND ANDREW BOLTON IN THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY, A MAGNOLIA PICTURES RELEASE. PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES

OPENING NIGHT: THE 2016 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL® ANDREW ROSSI’S THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY Magnolia Pictures’ The First Monday in May will open the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, April 13. Directed by Emmy Award nominated filmmaker Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside The New York Times) the intimate documentary looks at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended Costume Institute exhibition in history, “China: Through the Looking Glass.”

With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi follows curator Andrew Bolton, now Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, in an exploration of the collision of high fashion and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events co-chaired every year by Condé Nast Artistic Director and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano), the movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art.

The Tribeca Film Festival runs April 13 to April 24. Opening night is sponsored by Farfetch with special thanks to Thakoon. tribecafilm.com/festival; Twitter: @Tribeca Instagram: @tribeca; Facebook: Like facebook.com/Tribeca Snapchat: TribecaFilmFest; Hashtag: #Tribeca2016

ROZ CHAST: CARTOON MEMOIRS APRIL 6 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 One of the most distinctive and complex American comic voices to emerge in the last four decades is that of artist and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast (b. 1954). Since the 1970s, Brooklyn-born Chast has chronicled the anxieties, pleasures, and perils of contemporary life in a body of work that includes over 1,200 cartoons published in The New Yorker and other magazines, several illustrated children’s books, and her award-winning 2014 visual memoir, Can’t We talk About Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs features more than 200 works by this distinguished artist, showcasing her keen eye for the absurdities and insecurities that permeate daily life—including many situations that are particular to New York City.

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ON BROADWAY: TUCK EVERLASTING

TUCK EVERLASTING, the new musical based on Natalie Babbitt’s beloved best-selling novel. With direction and choreography

by Tony Award® winner Casey Nicholaw (Something Rotten!, Aladdin, The Book of Mormon), TUCK EVERLASTING begins previews on Thursday, March 31, 2016 and officially opens on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street).

Tickets available on www.Telecharge.com If you could live forever, would you?

When Winnie Foster discovers the magical secret of the Tuck family, she embarks on an extraordinary adventure that will change her life forever. Take a journey you’ll never forget in this powerful new musical about love, family and living life to the fullest. www.tuckeverlastingmusical.com

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IL PRINCIPE RESTAURANT HUDSON SQUARE DISTRICT The emerging Hudson Square District of lower Manhattan (bordered by SoHo, Greenwich Village, Tribeca and the West Village) is a work in progress. With plenty of office buildings, a number of high-rise residential units under construction, and a couple of trendy new hotels, the area currently presents few dining and entertainment options. Il Principe, located in the Hugo Hotel, is one of those, and fortunately, it’s a good one.

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Serving “simple, authentic, Italian comfort food,” Il Principe seeks to give diners a meal and experience they’ll enjoy, and a reason to come back. Share a thin crusted pizza to start; the fresh burrata with avocado mousse and pistachio; or tuna tartar with grilled peppers and mint. The garganelli pasta with veal sausage ragú, white wine sauce, and truffled pecorino is outstanding. Classic

Italian secondi like ossobuco (veal shank, parsnip puree and gremolata sauce); branzino with lemon, capers and olives; and grilled chicken with arugula, fennel, cherry tomatoes in a lemon-balsamic reduction are also fine selections. A nod to American tastes, the excellent Principe hamburger is fashioned with a homemade beef blend, asiago cheese, caramelized onion and tomatoes, and served with truffle parmesan fries and mixed greens.

The handsome, wood paneled dining room opens to seasonal outdoor courtyard seating. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Start or end your evening at the Rooftop Bar Hugo, offering amazing floor to ceiling views over the city, great service, crafted cocktails, cozy leather couches and breathing room.

Get in while its still relatively undiscovered.

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BUSTAN RESTAURANT UPPER WEST SIDE Bustan is a modern Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side. House specialties include succulent lamb shawarma with pickled mango sauce, and grilled salmon served alongside sweet potato and zucchini latkes. At the helm are Executive Chef and Partner Jose Paulo Cortes, who can be seen

in the kitchen approving each dish en route to your table.

The menu is an eclectic mix of Middle Eastern, French North African, Greek and Italian influences, culminating in a unique, international culinary experience.

Chef Paolo is passionate about constantly evolving his menu, traveling to Israel, Turkey and Greece for new inspirations.

Begin your gastronomic journey with the selection of dips– mazettim–including hummus, tzatziki, and spicy feta, with a side of freshly baked focaccia. Other stand out appetizers include grilled roasted eggplant served with a chili pepper relish, and the Moroccan Cigars–a crispy shell stuffed with braised short rib, mushrooms and onions, served over tahini and tomato harissa. At the heart of the kitchen is Chef Paolo’s custom wood-fired brick taboon, a Middle Eastern oven with a rotating base.

The result is moist, flavorful dishes, such as the whole Branzino stuffed with fresh

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herbs, with a crispy, smoke-infused outside, and the grilled hangar steak with tahinibaked potato and caramelized shallots.

Leave room for dessert, the Turkish sundae with shredded halva is a perfect ending.

Whether seated in the warm dining room, the lively bar, or the newly winterized back garden, Bustan is a restaurant you will enjoy again and again.

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By Yukie Ohta

RED LIGHT GO!

THE INTERSECTION of Broadway and Houston Street is well known today as a shopper’s paradise. Back in the mid-1800’s, one could shop at Lord & Taylor on Broadway at Grand Street, flit over to Tiffany & Co at Broadway near Prince, and then take in a show at Niblo’s Garden just across the way. Niblo’s was one of the city’s many “pleasure garden” venues where wealthy New Yorkers could find diversion and amusement, both indoors and out, before the advent of public parks.

For a time, the side streets off Broadway, namely Mercer, Prince, and Greene Streets, were lined with single-family rowhouses where upwardly mobile New York families resided, much like in the present day. Nineteenth century in New York City, however, was an era of expansion, and these families, bent on movin’ on up, soon forged northward toward the newly fashionable areas around Union Square and Madison Square, leaving behind vacant townhouses that lessors, needing to make rent, converted into boarding houses and brothels as the SoHo area transformed into New York’s first red light district.

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the neighborhood brothels thrived as well. Catering to the wellto-do visitors to the area, Soho’s brothels were known throughout to be topnotch. Indistinguishable from one-family dwellings from the street, the presence of brothels, or “parlor houses” as they were called, was an open secret, with the highest concentration along Mercer, Prince, and Greene Streets.

This being New York, several enterprising publishers printed guidebooks for visitors to the area that included Zagat Guide-style reviews of the neighborhood’s hotspots. The Gentleman’s Directory, published anonymously in 1870 and sold at local newsstands, informed readers that in this area one encounters many “Nymphes de Pave” who “have furnished rooms in which they receive visitors of the other sex, and ply their vocation in the streets for a livelihood.”

This book also provides detailed descriptions of public houses, or second-tier brothels (compared with the classier parlor houses), in the area. It describes the “Broadway Garden” as “a very large hall extending from Broadway to Mercer Street, and is conducted on the pretty waiter girl system,” adding that a “large red lamp before 25 East Houston street marks the establishment of Harry Hill” where “an hour cannot be spent more pleasantly.”

The Directory to the Seraglios in New York, published by “A Free Loveyer” in 1859, describes Miss Clara Gordon of No. 119 Mercer Street: “We cannot too highly recommend this house, the lady herself is a perfect Venus: beautiful, entertaining, and supremely seductive. Her aides-de-camp are really charming and irresistible, and altogether honest and honorable. Miss G. is a great belle, and her mansion is patronized by Southern merchants and planters principally. She is highly accomplished, skillful, and prudent, and sees her visitors are well entertained. Good wines of the most elaborate brands, constantly on hand, and in all, a finer resort cannot be found in the City.”

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houses and their clientele was on the up and up, madams would throw brothel balls, where New York’s elite would mingle with celebrity prostitutes at masked parties. Alas, these halcyon days were numbered, and once the businesses on Broadway migrated northward, Lord and Taylor to Broadway at 20th Street in 1870 and Tiffany’s to 15 Union Square West, also in 1870 (and Niblo’s was demolished in 1895 to make way for an office building), taking their clientele with them, only the most down and out of the public houses remained, until most were replaced by the end of the century with the cast iron buildings for which SoHo is known today.

As if to add insult to injury, at the junction of all these paths toward iniquity, there stood a house of worship.

Gene Schermerhorn, for whose family Schermerhorn Street is named, once wrote in a letter to his nephew, “St. Thomas Church was at the corner of Broadway and Houston Street; opposite to it was a row of small twostoried wooden houses; many of them low grog shops—a very bad neighborhood.” St. Thomas’ held on at this location until 1870, when its parishioners, aghast at the sorry state of their surroundings, moved their congregation to its current location at Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street.

This corner, where two of New York’s

grandest boulevards intersect, has thus gone through many changes since the bad old days of yore, when today’s green globes indicating the entrance to BroadwayLafayette subway station once burned red.

The early 20th century brought industry to the area. Then, when factories moved their operations out of the city mid-century, artists began moving in. Many artists moved on when real estate prices soared to their present-day highs, attracting New York’s well to do and the retail establishments that cater to them. Who’s to say, then, now that things have come full circle and SoHo is once again a shopping area to rival the one it once was, that the circle will not turn yet another notch, and Victoria’s secret will not be sold to the highest bidder?

--Yukie Ohta is the founder of The SoHo Memory Project, a mobile museum, archive, and blog celebrating and preserving the history of SoHo as a New York City neighborhood. sohomemory.org

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by AMANDA SCHERKER

CUTE EARRINGS TO WEAR WHEN YOU REJECT CAPITALISM

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took a lot of hard work, but you’ve finally managed to emancipate yourself from the systematic class-based oppression of neoliberal capitalism. Congrats, girl! You’re done measuring your time in dollar signs, and you’re through with evaluating your worth on whether or not you remembered to Venmo Caroline for brunch. Never again will you be seduced by “products” and “possessions” like some mindless zombie consumer! But you can’t just keep this radical transformation to yourself—it is time to loudly spread the news of your brand new, complete, utter contempt for greedy individualism and oppressive market economies with the perfect pair of earrings! Here are the most fabulous baubles to accessorize your political awakening:

Caged Cutout Ear Cuff (Forever 21, $3.90) (photo above) Break free from the shackles of capitalism with this kick-ass caged ear cuff that lets people know you went to Occupy Wall Street for a couple of hours! Pair this with a leather jacket for a look that sets you apart from the acquisition-driven, basic 99%. You are the coolest, most capitalism-rejecting chick at the rally!

Alexis Bittar Crystal Pyramid Stud Earrings (Bloomingdales, $85) These crystal studded pyramid earrings were made to accessorize your stunning critique of the pyramid scheme that is capitalism. Sure, they’re a bit flashy, but now’s not the time for minimalism—this is the revolution! Remember, looking hot is the best revenge against the corporate fat cats trying to crush you beneath the hamster wheel of the 40-hour workweek. Let your lobes warn the people—this system is rigged!

Pearl Stud Earrings !Mb__Zgr l% +))" These earrings are subtle and refined, like the power structure that quietly protects the dominance of the economic elite! These sophisticated freshwater pearls evoke the glamour of the 1920s, while subtly critiquing the decadence that caused the collapse of the global economy in 1929. For an effortless political statement, ironically pair these studs with a Little Black Dress as you mournfully ponder the eternal greed of the aristocracy.

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Tressa Dollar Sign Stud Earrings (Target, $16.99) These earrings aren’t just a major cultural commentary—they’re a goddamn political manifesto!

They beg the question, “When will we stop worshiping the allmighty dollar?” and you’ll answer, “When we see it for what it truly is: Just another meaningless symbol in my fabulous earring collection!” Everyone will declare you a political thought leader and a rising fashion icon to boot!

Cubic Zirconia Stud Earrings !<eZbk^ l% ,'.)"

If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, these sparkly studs are a radical socialist lady’s most stalwart comrade! Let the foolish elites wear their 40-karat stones as they lounge on their luxury yachts and merrily toast to the staggering decline of the American middle class. Their days are numbered, and so is your earrings cabinet! (Each set of your earrings has its own numbered cubby, natch. You have a lot of earrings!)

Anarchist Circle-A Earrings (Trinket Slot, $11) These bold earrings are for the punky, anarchist chick who’s not afraid to tell you why she’s in a lousy mood: because ruthless economic competition creates social alienation and private ownership destroys worker solidarity, asshat! These earrings make a powerful statement, letting everybody instantly know exactly what you’re about: crushing the system of mindless consumption.

Best worn with combat boots and inexhaustible proletariat fervor.

Eat your hearts out, capitalist greed heads!

Like all revolutionaries committed to overthrowing the capitalist elite, you’ve rejected the mindless clamor of the bourgeois. But that doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your style game! The right earrings will give you the glamour and confidence to inspire the masses to finally take down the mega-corporations that are squandering our earth’s precious resources! Keep fighting the good fight, you fashionista!

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Pampering rarely reaches a greater level than this, outstanding personal service in a magnificent, comprehensive setting.

A lot of pleasant whisking goes on in the Valley Wing. Guests are whisked up to their rooms on arrival, where they are privately and quickly checked in. Butler service whisked away the blouse I had with a dropped hem, to repair and return it in a matter of hours. Shoes are shined, newspapers delivered, room service conveyed, all in short order.

To complement the delightful service, rooms are spacious and luxuriously appointed. Marbled bathrooms, crisp white linens, cozy seating areas make the suites and guestrooms ultra comfortable.

Free WiFi and charging docks suitable for multi format plugs without adapters are a great convenience.

Enjoy your stay knowing there are no hidden costs, and few additional charges. Privileges for Valley Wing guests include complimentary full breakfast in the serene Summit Room. Start your day with American, continental, Chinese, Japanese, or Singaporean options. Unlimited complimentary champagne, cocktails, wines, tea, coffee, cold drinks and light snacks are available throughout the day in the Valley Wing lobby. Grab something to go on your way out, or sink into a couch and enjoy the works when you come in. Complimentary afternoon tea is served daily from 2-5 pm; canapés from 5-7 pm accompanied by harp or piano music. Edward, one of the Lobby Ambassadors, will soon have you feeling at home, as he caters to your every need, giving tips and suggestions to enhance your travels.

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T’S A LONG FLIGHT (OR TWO) TO GET THERE, BUT ONCE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA YOU CAN TRAVEL BETWEEN FASCINATING COUNTRIES WITH EASE, ENJOYING THE VARIETY OF CULTURES, CUSTOMS, AND CUISINES. DRAMATIC HISTORY, IMPRESSIVE SIGHTS, EXOTIC LIFESTYLES AND RICH EXPERIENCES ALL AWAIT THE INTREPID US TRAVELER. HERE ARE OUR TIPS ON WHERE TO STAY TO KEEP IT SAFE AND COMFORTABLE, WHILE TAKING IT ALL IN WITH EXPERIENCED GUIDES OR ON YOUR OWN.

WHAT TO SEE While in Singapore, besides ducking into shopping malls for the bounty of merchandise available from around the world (and to cool off from the equatorial climate), visit the Botanical Gardens, Marina Bay, Gardens by the Bay, Richardson’s Cay, Chinatown and Little India. Try fruits like Mangosteens or the highly prized Durian.

>SINGAPORE SHANGRI-LA SINGAPORE The Shangri-La hotels do indeed offer an oasis in the cities within which they are located, a petite paradise where guests can relax and recharge before heading back into the urban fray.

The Valley Wing of the Shangri-La Singapore is an exclusive boutique hotel within the broader compound of this 5-star resort.

With its own lobby, concierge, breakfast room, champagne bar and elevator bank, the Wing shares the tropical gardens, pool, spa, restaurants, tennis courts and amenities of the main hotel.

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WHERE TO EAT In Teong Bahru, a charming, low-rise, colonial neighborhood, roll up your sleeves and dive into dishes at local favorite Sin Hoi San: chili crab, salted egg, marmite pork ribs.

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For something on a “higher level,” take the skywalk from Marina Bay Sands into the neon lit Gardens by the Bay, and dine in the supertree restaurant Indochine, 50 meters above ground.

Be vaguely disappointed with the myriad T-shirt clad tourists filling the Long Bar at Raffles, or enjoy a signature Singapore Sling in their less historic but lovely courtyard bar.

Best of all, visit the various hawker markets throughout Singapore for a plethora of inexpensive local foods and specialties from countries around the region. Point to a picture, pull out your own napkins, grab a seat at a noisy, not-too-clean communal table, and enjoy meals the way Singaporeans do!

SUGGESTED READING Tanamera, by Noel Barber. An epic tale of Singapore, from turn-of-the-century colonial days through WWII and independence. A love story, a war story, an intimate portrait of this fascinating island. Use your Shangri-la bookmark, left each evening at turndown,

to mark your page in this 750-page page-turner.

Saint Jack, by Paul Theroux. A grittier take on Singapore in the ‘60s, focused on the grifter/ procurer who coasts on the ex-pat perks and privileges of the rapidly burgeoning island.

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> SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA It’s worth flying into Cambodia primarily to visit Angkor Wat. A Unesco World Heritage Site located near the city of Siem Reap, Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia and one of the largest archaeological sites in the world. It extends over approximately 400 square kilometers and consists of scores of astoundingly beautiful temples and hydraulic structures (basins, dykes, reservoirs, canals). For several centuries Angkor was the capital of the ancient Khmer Kingdom, and its power and reach are reflected in these dramatic ruins. Art, architecture, monuments, and religious icons are all on display in this awe-inspiring, historically preserved complex.

ANANTARA ANGKOR RESORT A 15-minute ride from Siem Reap’s new airport lies Anantara Angkor Resort and Spa, with easy access to the wonders of Angkor. In fact, Anantara Resort feels itself like one of the wonders of this area, with its serene layout modeled after a Khmer villa: cool and luxurious guestrooms surrounding a courtyard with swimming pool, openair lounges, and traditional service. The decor of the 39 rooms and suites are a pleasing blend of Cambodian design elements in a contemporary style. Dark, hardwood floors, teak furniture, and local textiles are complemented by crisp white linens and individual terraces overlooking the pool. The open-view bathroom, with both a shower and deep soaking tub (someone drew a bath for me on my first night strewn with flowers!) separates into a lattice-screened sink area and private commode. Guests are bowed into this boutique resort, lavished with attention, and accommodated on every level.

The refined Sothea dining room menu presents a range of dishes, from Cambodian cuisine to familiar Western fare, at prices typical of the region but well below what one might expect at a 5-star resort.

TOURING Take the hotel’s recommendation for your tours and book Mr. Hann, expert English-speaking guide: aboutangkorcambodia.com Mr. Hann, a fount of knowledge on the ancient Khmer empire, arrives before dawn to escort you on your Sunrise Tour of Angkor Wat, a hauntingly beautiful, memorable visit of this temple of all temples. Return to the hotel for breakfast and a brief rest, before visiting other temples such as Angkor Thom, Bayon and the temple of Ta Prohm (known as the “Tomb Raider” temple, because the Lara Croft movie was filmed here in 2002.) Lunch in an open-air Cambodian restaurant in the Angkor Park, and enjoy a schedule tailored to fit your needs and stamina.

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$6 martinis anyone? Piano music and soothing waterscape tones are gentle accompaniment.

At the Anantara Spa, one can have the kinks of touring worked out in Thai, Swedish, Indian or herbal massages. Every service begins with a traditional foot washing ceremony, and ends with a quiet cup of tea and fresh fruit.

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After a day spent in quiet contemplation of the past, get ready for a totally up to date, hilarious evening exploration. Cambodia Vespa Adventures (www.cambodiavespaadventures. com) After Dark Foodie Tour of Siem Reap on–you guessed it–Vespas. Hang on to your driver as you dodge through the crowded streets of Siem Reap along with thousands of other motorcycles (the preferred means of transportation) to visit markets, restaurants, bars and a wishing shrine. Silk worms, crickets or scorpions your kind of dish? Buy them by the pile or plateful from a gleeful street vendor.

Then have an impromptu picnic roadside, of corn on the cob, grilled meats, rice and local sweets. Pick up a cold beer and a warm escort at one of Siem Reap’s trendy hotspots. The Cambodians, especially younger ones, are eager to talk about their country’s grim history and current politics, so lend a willing ear but keep your counsel to yourself.

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Get it online, in advance, at evisa.gov.kh

dining venues, comprehensive business center, and spa are your oasis in the hustle and bustle of the city. Rise above the fray from the moment you arrive with a complimentary airport transfer in the hotel’s Wi-Fi-equipped Mercedes Benz. 800 guestrooms in two towers offer a range of accommodations– from executive floor to premier suites–all with Thai touches of silk, teak and exemplary

open air, teak pavilion on the waterfront, serves traditional Thai cuisine punctuated by dramatic, classical Thai dance performances. The hotel also has an evening dining cruise on its very own Horizon riverboat, with an international buffet and live music. Complimentary shuttle boat service is available each evening to the Asiatique night market on the riverfront.

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BANGKOK, THAILAND SHANGRI-LA BANGKOK Settle into the Shangri-La Bangkok as your base from which to delve deep into this multiSHANGRI-LA BANGKOK

faceted city. A high-rise hotel centrally located on the banks of the all-important Chao Phraya River, the Shangri-La’s stunning river and city views, spacious guestrooms, multiple

service. Spacious bathrooms, fine linens, and access to the swimming pool, gardens and lobby areas are common to all.

The hotel’s Salathip Restaurant, in an

Visit thaitourguide.com to book an excellent, English-speaking private guide and driver, who will shepherd you to the major sites within Bangkok, such as the Royal Grand Palace and the Royal Temple, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, and a typical flower and vegetable market. You can also customize your visit to include wonderful locales outside the city such as the Maeklong Railway Market, which lies across the railway tracks and must move if and when the government-scheduled train runs; and the Damnern Saduak Floating market, which, visited by boat, allows a view into the traditional Thai way of life built on the waterways, before cars made roadways more practical.

Be sure to try a Thai massage in any of the city’s numerous salons (no oils; deep tissue, with someone climbing on your back) at remarkably low prices and for a long duration; and hop into a tuk tuk (motorcycle-driven, 3-wheeled taxi) if you’re up for a zany, precarious but exhilarating ride through Bangkok.

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city’s museums and landmarks, a visit to the Charles spa is an absolute must. Tranquility and rejuvenation abound in the steam room, sauna, relaxation room, and pool area. Be aware the steam room and sauna are coed, and in traditional German style, clothing is optional! For those fitness fanatics, there is also a well-equipped weight room with machines, free weights, and treadmills.

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Dining recommendations are easy, simply ask the knowledgeable concierge to suggest a beer hall or Bavarian restaurant. If the truth be told, the hotel’s Italian restaurant, Davvero, is worth a visit.

Options include an elegant five course, four course, or three course set menu, or ordering à la carte. The staff is expertly trained and attentive. In the mornings, a Bavarian breakfast buffet is offered in the same locale. The white sausages and pretzels are delicious and native to this quaint and fascinating region of Germany. roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/the-charles-hotel/

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JOURNEY THROUGH CENTRAL EUROPE THE CHARLES HOTEL , A ROCCO FORTE HOTEL MUNICH, GERMANY Munich, Germany belongs on the list of great cities to visit in the world. A mix of Gothic architecture with a modern edge, the city is full of interesting things to see and do, from the palaces of Bavarian dukes to the Deutsches Museum, the largest technology and science museum in the world. One of the most exciting times to visit is the middle of September to the first week in October for the beer drinking and revelry-filled Oktoberfest.

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The Palais Hansen hotel is the perfect blend of historic elegance mixed with modern comfort and class. Walking out of the lobby into the fresh Viennese air, you’ll find yourself right on the famous Ringstrasse Boulevard, alongside such monumental buildings as the Parliament. It’s just a few minutes walk to the Museum district, the main pedestrian zone, and the Kärntner Strasse, which has been around since Roman times. Take a moment to listen to the amateur street musicians who enhance the architecture and harken back to the days of the Habsburg Empire. Stop into one of Vienna’s renowned coffee houses for traditional pastries and drinks. Be sure to visit the Kunsthisoriche Museum, where you will see countless Renaissance masterpieces.

The magnificent Palais Hansen has two delicious restaurants, (its fine dining restaurant, Edvard, holds a coveted Michelin star), a bar, a cigar lounge, six conference rooms, a ballroom, and a fitness and spa area. No expense has been spared to create a superb hotel experience for guests. kempinski.com/en/vienna/palais-hansen/welcome/

HOTEL KRISTIANIA LECH LECH AM ARLBERG, AUSTRIA It’s time to start planning your next ski vacation, and Lech am Arlberg, Austria, should be at the top of your list. With over 350 kilometers of ski trails interconnected across multiple mountains with high-speed lifts, both the deep powder and well-groomed

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trails are practically endless. And while you are cruising down the slopes, take a moment to look up and appreciate the awe-inspiring views of one of the world’s most majestic mountain ranges. It is no surprise that many of Europe’s nobility choose to vacation here.

Ski in-ski out at The Hotel Kristiania Lech, known for its exceptional hospitality.

The hotel is designed in traditional Austrian mountain fashion, with fur blankets, smoldering fireplaces, and an all around air of coziness. The hotel restaurant’s delicious fare is served by a welcoming and knowledgeable staff. Be sure to try the fondue, either meat or cheese, to warm your belly after a long day out of doors. For those seeking an incredible ski vacation mixed with absolutely world-class luxury, plan a trip to Hotel Kristiania Lech. kristiania.at/en/13/default.aspx

ARIA HOTEL BUDAPEST, HUNGARY The Aria Hotel Budapest, just like its sister hotel in Prague, is artfully crafted with the central theme of music. The luxury boutique hotel was designed to simultaneously emulate the lavishness of a Hungarian palace while also inviting guests into the comfort of a private residence. The four separate wings of the hotel highlight a different musical genre, with rooms and suites dedicated to various musical legends. The hotel is located directly next to the historic St Stephen’s Basilica, smack dab in the heart of the city center on the Pest side of the Danube.

Andrassey Avenue, the main cultural boulevard of the city is definitely worth a visit, a three-minute saunter from the hotel. Be sure to explore the hilltop city of Buda, a 20-minute

walk across the Chain Bridge from the hotel, with Budapest Castle, the National Gallery, and spectacular views of the entire city.

Once you are finished with exploring for the day, return to the Aria hotel and choose from a multitude of relaxation, beverage, and dining options. At the spa warm your muscles in the steam room and hot tub, then cool off in the pool. The glass enclosed music garden in the center of the hotel lobby serves complimentary wine and cheese each evening from 4-6 pm, with live piano music.

And, if you feel like enjoying Hungarian cuisine, the hotel’s Stradavari restaurant serves tasty Hungarian fare. Finish off the night at the rooftop bar for innovative cocktails and a 360-degree view of the city. ariahotelbudapest.com

Prague’s most impressive sites, such as the Old Town Square, St. Nicholas Cathedral, and the Old Jewish Quarter. After spending hours touring the city, the Aria Hotel’s soothing yet vibrant atmosphere is perfect for resting your feet and drinking a complimentary cup of tea.

The hotel is inspired by music, with each floor themed after a different musical genre: Opera, Jazz, Classical, and Contemporary.

Music aficionados or not, guests will love the rooms and suites dedicated to various musicians and the elegant decor throughout the hotel. The hotel also features the delicious Coda restaurant, with live piano music in the evenings, serving Czech and international dishes. Two highlights of the hotel that are definitely worth a visit are the rooftop terrace’s panoramic views of the city with drink and dining options, and the tranquil Vrtba Gardens, a UNESCO world heritage site, into which the hotel has a “secret” entrance. ariahotel.net/default-en

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ARIA HOTEL PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Nestled under the shadow of Prague Castle, The Aria Hotel is far enough out of the city center to avoid the downtown bustle and only a fifteen-minute stroll to arrive in the heart of the Old City. The historic Charles bridge, just a stone’s throw from the hotel, spans the Vltava River, granting incredible views of the city and leading to many of ARIA HOTEL, PRAGUE

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Czech food, dine at Spices Restaurant and Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The adept bartenders will whip up one of the bar’s signature cocktails. If you are feeling adventurous, the liquid nitrogen mango martini is a must. Next, make your way to the hip dining room to enjoy authentic, family style, Asian fusion cuisine. The service is exceptional, the atmosphere electric, and you won’t find better Asian food this side of the Vltava. mandarinoriental.com/prague/finedining/spices-restaurant-and-bar/ W E STO N MA G AZINEG ROUP.COM

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THE ART OF A GRAND HOTEL CENTURION PALACE VENICE, ITALY To be able to stay out of the crush around St. Marks Square but still be able to walk everywhere easily, is a real pleasure in Venice.

The Centurion Palace is a luxury boutique hotel in the Dursoduro neighborhood of Venice that affords that, and much more. The hotel, situated in a gorgeous, renovated villa with courtyard on the Grand Canal, offers contemporary decor, traditional service and modern amenities. Rooms and suites juxtapose bold colors, eclectic fabrics and furnishings, and golden bathrooms with the hotel’s 14th Century exterior and awe-inspiring views. A fitness center, meeting rooms, private hotel dock, and glamorous lounge are also on site. The serene and sunlit courtyard is an ideal spot in which to enjoy cocktails after a busy day of sight seeing, or just to unwind and process all the sights and sounds of this amazing city.

Drinks are also served in the stylish red bar, and on the diminutive lobby balcony in summer months.

A dramatic all-white dining room overlooking the canal is open for buffet and a la carte breakfast, as well as candle-lit, gastronomic dinners. Called ‘Antinoo’s’ and overseen by Executive Chef Massimo Livan, the dining room serves beautifully prepared, typical Venetian delicacies such as Baccalá mantecato (purée of dried cod) with chicory salad and polenta; spaghetti alle vongole (clams); and black bean soup with radicchio; as well as novelties such as raw scallops with seaweed salad and sesame; and poached egg with mushroom powder, spinach and pumpkin in three consistencies. The restaurant has a comprehensive selection of Italian wines, organized by region of origin.

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Very nearby lie the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, the Accademia Bridge, which crosses the Grand Canal, and the lively, student and café-filled Campo Santa Margherita. For those who choose to cross the Grand Canal in a gondola rather than on a bridge, a quick passage is available right next to the hotel over to the St. Mark’s side of the canal for 1 Euro. Member, Small Luxury Hotels of the World. centurionpalacevenezia.com Sinahotels.com

HASSLER ROMA ROME, ITALY A Roman holiday begins of course, in Rome, the home of antiquity, narrow streets and pasta. The prestigious Hassler Roma is ideally situated at the top of the famous white marble Spanish Steps. Sojourn at this iconic hotel and be immersed in European HASSLER ROMA

most fashionable boutiques. Everywhere you look in the city of Rome there is beauty and art, and like Rome, the Hassler is filled with antique masterpieces; Venetian lamps, Murano chandeliers, French crystal and tapestries adorn the public spaces as well as the rooms and suites.

Reserve the 8th floor Penthouse Suite: you’ll find restful bliss with three bedrooms, a fully stocked bar area, living room and a dining

better situated. Straddling the heart of the city’s cultural arts scene, this bespoke hotel is within walking distance to the lively Ramblas, the Boqueria market, the city’s most exclusive shopping, and world class dining.

Built in 1918, the Majestic is an historic work of art, with delicate stained glass windows, elaborate wrought iron balconies and neoclassical details. Known as “the Hotel of the Arts,” the hotel features more than 1,000 works of art that adorn the public areas and guest rooms.

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old world charm and elegance. Since the Hassler opened its doors in 1893, the hotel’s guest list is a Who’s Who from the last century: The Kennedy clan, President Eisenhower, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly, Jean Paul Sartre, and Frank Gehry are just a few of a long list of royalty, celebrities, writers, and artists who have stayed at the Hassler.

Fifth generation hotelier, Roberto E. Wirth, welcomes guests to the hotel as he would to his own home. The hotel is adjacent to the 16th-century Trinità dei Monti church, and walking distance to the Villa Borghese, Via Veneto, and Rome’s

room. The stylish suite is entered via a private elevator and sports a grand piano, full kitchen with chilled champagne at the ready, and a private butler.

Before retiring, take in the panoramic views of the Eternal City from the rooftop terrace and you’ll understand why there’s no place like Rome.

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MAJESTIC HOTEL & SPA BARCELONA, SPAIN Barcelona, on Spain’s Costa Brava, beckons with its rich history and modern treasures.

For a stay that’s as captivating as its locale, the 5-star Majestic Hotel & Spa will impress the most discriminating of guests. With its turnof-the-century limestone facade on Boulevard “Paseo de Gracia,” the Majestic could not be

Having recently completed a 30 million euro renovation, this magnificent property is the ultimate epicurean experience. Stay like a Pasha on the 9th floor, originally the owners’ private living quarters, which have been remodeled into six penthouses with private terraces. Not enough pampering? There is a 24-hour VIP butler service awaiting your call. But you don’t need to stay on the 9th floor to be spoiled with luxurious furnishings and impeccable service.

Award-winning chef Nandu Jubany, a Catalonian native, masterminds the hotel’s three culinary offerings. Local gentry line up for the indulgent weekend brunch at El Restaurant du Majestic, renowned for its Eggs Benedict and a flute of Moët & Chandon. For breathtaking rooftop views of the city, enjoy a cocktail and gourmet snacks at La Dolce Vitae, the beautiful pool and terrace bar. The swanky El Bar del Majestic, located in the hotel lobby, serenades guests every afternoon with a live pianist while the local Catalan wine flows.

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> WINDSTAR CRUISES

BY PAULA KOFFSKY

Windstar enthusiasts are savvy globetrotters well acquainted with the supreme pleasure of travel by cruise ship. Acclaimed for their adventurous itineraries with a private yacht feel, Windstar hosts voyages that are great for couples looking for the perfect getaway as well as families seeking an unforgettable vacation.

Windstar’s smaller ships maneuver to off-the-beaten-path ports, not accessible to larger cruise ships. It’s almost comical watching those floating behemoths drop anchor while their guests queue for tenders; whereas on a Windstar ship, guests are already exploring on shore or dashing off to an exhilarating excursion. Imagine a private snorkeling expedition at a black pearl farm in Tahiti or special moonlit dinner followed by a live concert at the ancient ruins in Ephesus.

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Pride, accommodating an intimate 212 guests each. These newly acquired vessels sport spacious all-suite berths with separate sitting areas and floor to ceiling windows or private balconies. No need to worry about packing the evening gown and tux as the atmosphere onboard all of the Windstar ships is casual; there is no dress code and no prescribed dining times. Despite the informal atmosphere guests are spoiled aplenty. Private butlers deliver fresh fruit daily and keep the mini-bar stocked. Warm and affable crewmembers greet guests by name and bend over backwards to meet every need.

Windstar’s Open Bridge is an invitation for guests to wander into command central, check out the best views on board, and chat with the Captain. Guests are treated like family, and like family, they return again and again.

Our Mediterranean cruise, “Glitter & Glam of the Riviera,” departed Rome in the early fall, dropping anchor at classic Mediterranean ports of call–Monte Carlo, Cannes, and Portofino– as well as smaller, lesser known ports. Portoferraio, our first destination, is a beautiful harbor town on the Island of Elba known for Napoleon’s exile in 1814. Our excursion took us through the dramatic beaches and high cliffs to the enchanted seaside village of

Porto Azzurro. Next, we explored an ancient medieval fortress and sipped local wines at a private farmhouse tasting.

Back onboard and following a quick revitalizing nap came an invigorating

To soothe our weary bodies, we slipped into the top-deck’s bubbling Jacuzzis while sipping cocktails from the Star Bar. Two blasts from the ship’s bridge and the Star Pride lifted anchor and sailed into a

Provence, as I stood in Paul Cezanne’s studio breathing in the same air as this Impressionist master.

A Windstar Cruise is not just a waterborne resort but a delicious culinary journey as well. Every dish on the ship is individually prepared and the Windstar kitchen will happily satisfy any allergy, dietary restriction or penchant. We enjoyed a chef-led galley tour and while in Marseille, many of us joined our chef on a visit to the local open-air market for a lesson in leeks and poisson.

Windstar prides itself on its unique experiences in the world’s best small ports and hidden harbors throughout Europe, the South Pacific, the Caribbean, and Central America. In 2016, Windstar is collaborating with the James Beard Foundation on three culinaryfocused European cruises, each with internationally recognized chef and wine experts. Food and wine enthusiasts can immerse themselves in the flavors of the regions of Spain, Morocco and France while host chefs perform cooking demonstrations, nightly featured dishes, and one-on-one shore excursions. To extend your vacation, book a pre-cruise land tour, with Windstar’s sister company, VBT Italy Tour and Cruise. Before the “Glitter & Glam of the Riviera,” an MONTE CARLO

afternoon at the water sports platform.

We took out a two-person kayak for a spin around the bay and the jet-powered boats led skiers on a wet and wild ride.

All Windstar yachts are also equipped for sailing, windsurfing, paddle boarding, and snorkeling. Of course, the large floating island is ideal for doing nothing more than sunning and taking in the view.

glorious sunset.

Each day of the week was filled with memorable adventures–a private olive oil tasting at the magnificent Splendido Hotel, an exciting cliff hike atop the Italian Riviera and an eye-opening private tour of a Renaissance Villa on the Côte d’Azur. After an inside look at the ancient perfumeries in Grasse, I warmed my heart in Aix en

intimate group of twenty guests can cycle through Puglia’s centuries-old olive groves, through walled cities, along the rugged coastline, dine amidst the olive groves, and sleep in authentic masserie country hotels. windstarcruises.com W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G R O U P . C O M

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> ADIRONDACK BLISS THE SAGAMORE RESORT AND LAKE PLACID LODGE THE SAGAMORE RESORT, BOLTON LANDING, NY Nestled within the Adirondack State Park, New York’s six million-acre playground, The Sagamore Resort on Lake George is a throwback to those grand lakefront summer camps where ladies wore taffeta and hats and men dressed for dinner. That should not be a surprise as the Sagamore, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was the vision of a local hotelier and several Philadelphia industrialists who wanted to attract the turn of last century’s gentry. The rich and famous traveled in carriages, locomotives and steamers to luxuriate at the exclusive resort and bask in the renowned beauty of the park. Sadly, after a 100-year run, the Sagamore fell into disrepair and demolition loomed. But with some luck, local tenacity and the always helpful financing, the resort has been lovingly restored and is now an iconic Adirondack destination.

For the ultimate panoramic lake view, book the Premier Suite Balcony King in the restored Historic Hotel. The resort also includes newly refurbished Adirondack style lodges with over 200 rooms and 100 spacious suites, sporting fireplaces and terraces. If you’re looking for

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the perfect venue for an executive retreat, the Hermitage is comprised of 12 suites, of course with lake views. A sprawling 10,000 square feet of outdoor terrace surrounds the resort’s lakefront property. With two pools, a newly renovated Spa and Salon, a recreation center, tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts, and a full service waterfront, guests have no reason to venture off the magnificent resort property.

The Sagamore also has its own marina with waterskiing, fishing charters, and banana boat rides. Don’t worry if it rains, The REC is a 10,000 square foot indoor Kids Club with a rock-climbing wall, mini-golf, and daily activities such as scavenger hunts, karaoke and ice cream socials. The Tennis Center has both private and group clinics for all ages. For a thrilling ride, whitewater rafting trips are scheduled daily. Although a little corny, don’t pass-up a cruise on the Morgan, a nineteenth-century replica touring boat.

Slide up to the teak rail and motor past the great private Adirondack Camps, or head below and nosh on sandwiches and fresh fruit smoothies. And keep vigilant, as you’re likely to catch a Bald Eagle keeping watch from a branch or soaring above.

While the kids are busy at the Kids Club, head over to the Spa & Salon, a sanctuary of restorative treatments. The blissful Signature Body Pampering Remedy includes a special scrub with essential oils and shea butter followed by a de-stressing massage.

Golf lovers will be delighted to know the award winning 18-hole 1928 Donald Rossdesigned course is just a shuttle ride away.

With seven restaurants, there are plenty of great choices, but for a romantic soiree, the Pavilion has a lakeside deck. The kids will be over the moon with movie night, bingo, campfire and s’mores, while you dine under a giant oak canopy with a front row sunset view. All this is just a four-hour drive from New York City. What are you waiting for? thesagamore.com

LAKE PLACID LODGE LAKE PLACID, NY Henry David Thoreau built a cabin on Walden Pond to commune with nature and contemplate his place in the world. Like Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond, Lake Placid Lodge is an oasis of serenity. But, unlike Thoreau’s humble retreat, Lake Placid Lodge enchants guests with luxurious lodging, prize

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worthy dining, and top shelf service.

Lake Placid Lodge is the only resort on this unspoiled alpine lake. The Arts and Crafts style lodge is made up of just 13 guest rooms and suites, with 17 enchanting cabins nestled steps from the lake’s shore. Outfitted in Adirondack log furniture, featherbeds, and hand crafted stone fireplaces, the accommodations are in perfect harmony

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with the unspoiled setting. All of the rooms and cabins have stunning views of Lake Placid and Whiteface Mountain.

You won’t find a TV in your room, or a fitness center on property; the bucolic Adirondack landscape is your recreation playground. Guests enjoy canoeing around the lakeshores, taking in the great camps.

Activities in the fresh mountain air include swimming and sunning on the floating dock, paddle boarding, hiking the pristine trails, mountain biking, or gearing up with fishing poles and fresh bait at the fishing hut.

Golf and tennis enthusiasts can check out adjacent Whiteface Club for hard and clay tennis courts and an 18-hole championship

course. Late afternoons are perfect for a cruise around the lake in the resort’s classic custom 35-foot mahogany Hacker-Craft speedboat. Captain Ernie will take guests on a private champagne tour. Come winter season, tobogganing, skiing, ice fishing, and snowshoeing are just some of the diversions.

Lake Placid Lodge is an ode to the homespun aesthetic of the Adirondack Great Camps. It is filled with local artisans’ hand-hewn furniture, cabinetry, and bronze wildlife sculptures. The resort also sports the largest collection of Hudson River School paintings outside of a museum.

Maggie’s Pub is a cozy den with oversized armchairs and comfy couches, perfect for billiards and hors’ d’oeuvres. For the best gastronomic fare, Artisans Restaurant serves local organic farmhouse provisions. Chefled tours of the kitchen and wine cellar are held daily. Dinner on the terrace, overlooking Whiteface Mountain and the lake, includes cozy lap blankets and an outdoor fireplace. After dinner, head down to a lakeside bonfire for hot chocolate and s’mores.

Lake Placid Lodge guests cannot avoid the beloved “lake time” effect. The pace is slower and a sense of tranquility will conquer the most tightly wound urbanite.

After a day of adventure and culinary bliss, return to your cabin, where your fireplace is prepped, and refuel on homemade cookies with the sound of the lake lapping at the shore outside your window. lakeplacidlodge.com W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G R O U P . C O M

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EOPLE LOVE THE WINTER IN COLORADO, BUT THEY REALLY LOVE COLORADO IN THE SUMMER. EXPLORE THE MOUNTAINS WITH MILES OF BIKING AND HIKING TRAILS, FLY FISHING, MOUNTAINTOP YOGA CLASSES, HORSEBACK RIDING, RAFTING, BALLOONING, MUSIC FESTIVALS AND GONDOLA RIDES. HERE’S A SAMPLING OF COLORADO SUMMER FAVORITES:

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• Ride airborne on the guided 90-minute Crested Butte Zip line Tour.

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of wellness and inspiration through health and fitness.

• Telluride Blues and Brews Festival, Sept 16-18 • Telluride even designates one weekend for a festival breather, The Nothing Festival.

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COPPER MOUNTAIN •Aspen Food and Wine Classic, June 17-19 Join the world’s most accomplished winemakers and celebrity chefs at the base of spectacular Aspen Mountain.

• Aspen Ideas Festival, June 23-July 2 Participate in the discussion of the ideas and issues that shape our lives with the world’s great thought leaders.

• Jazz Aspen/Snowmass, June 24-July 2 Featuring Diana Ross, Sheryl Crowe and Smokey Robinson.

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• Family friendly activities include go-karts, climbing wall, mini golf and the Alpine Rush Zip Line.

• Enjoy fireworks and a campfire every Saturday evening throughout the summer.

• Get muddy for a cause at the Dirty Girl Race, September 10th–a 5K mud run to raise awareness of breast and ovarian cancer in young women.

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• Tee off in the crisp light Rocky Mountain air at Keystone’s two championship golf courses.

• Stay and Play Golf Packages are available.

• Family adventures abound at Keystone: Kidtopia Kids Fest and Discovery Days feature daily summer programming including kite building and Super Slimy Science.

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ARAPAHOE BASIN Don’t put away your skis; A-Basin is often open for skiing through the beginning of July!

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SUNLIGHT MOUNTAIN/GLENWOOD SPRINGS Stay at the historic Hotel Colorado in the town of Glenwood Springs, the home of Sunlight Mountain. Experience Glenwood Hot Springs, the world’s largest Hot Springs pool or for a more intimate soak, dip into the new Iron Mountain Hot Springs alongside the Colorado River.

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CRESTED BUTTE • Escape the summer heat and explore this fabulous mountain town, known as “The Wildflower Capital” of Colorado.

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• At the Adventure Park, families can enjoy mini golf, rock climbing, bungee trampolines and the Tin Cup Mining Co., where kids prospect for gems just like the miners of yesteryear.

• July 4th, join the parade on historic Main St. The holiday celebration kicks off with a 10K Trail Run and continues throughout the day with the Firecracker 50 Bike Race, live music and kids activities.

• There’s adventure all summer long at the Breckenridge Fun Park, including the Ten Mile Flyer Zipline, Gold Runner Coaster, alpine slide, and mini golf.

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The villas offer incredible views, privacy and seclusion within nature, yet are not a far drive to full services and activities that will make your vacation experience complete and memorable.

The northwest pacific Province of Guanacaste is where you want to be. This area offers the mildest weather, especially during the green season (rainy months of May through October) and has miles of Pacific Ocean coastlines.

The recreational activities available present options for all ages and adventure levels: paddle boarding, kayaking, sailing (charters), snorkeling, diving, swimming in calm waters, jet skiing, fishing, zip line through nature, hot springs, horseback riding. In the mountains and lake areas of Lake Arenalalso, located in the Province of Guanacaste,

you can enjoy wind surfing, fresh water fishing, hot springs, hiking to waterfalls or lay back and observe the Volcano.

Enjoy all the activities and services provided by the most friendly people you will ever meet in your world travel experiences. Costa Ricans are referred to as “Ticos,” and come from a culture that lives by a code of “puravida” (pure life). When providing you with services, you will often hear them reply to you, “con mucho gusto,” with much pleasure.

Coldwell Banker Coast to Coast Properties located in the northwest Pacific offers the ultimate in luxury vacation rentals from panoramic ocean views to mountain area lakefront estates.

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With its increasing accessibility, expanding commerce, and flourishing culture, West Palm is what people in the know are talking about.

Walk down Clematis Street in WPB and feel the energy. Downtown West Palm has been enlivened with new restaurants, clubs, outdoor concerts, and festivals year round. Cityplace offers a variety of shopping, restaurants, entertainment, and live performances. The Kravis Center hosts award-winning productions in theater, dance, and music. The Norton Museum has begun a $60 million addition designed by British architect, William Foster, boasting worldrenowned exhibitions. Antique Row Art and Design District on South Dixie Highway has been called #4 best places for shopping by Conde’ Nast Traveler. US News and World Report has named Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue #2 shopping place in America. But if paying retail is not your thing, the Palm Beach Outlet Mall has Whole Foods and over 130 discounted stores just minutes away from downtown. They even offer free trolley service to and from WPB. If you are looking for something to do in West Palm, it’s here.

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A $135 million spring training baseball stadium is being built to host the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals right here in West Palm. Did you say FORE? There are over 160 golf courses in Palm Beach County alone. Seventeen of the best 25 courses in

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All Aboard Florida is making fast-train travel available – Miami to Orlando in less than 3 hours. Brightline will bring in $6.3 billion of direct economic impact over the next 8 years, removing up to 3 million cars off the road, and changing the view of commuting in southern Florida. Palm Beach International airport is

located less than 3 miles away from downtown WPB and is large enough to support both commercial and private jets. With more than 30 direct flights daily from the Tri-State and no congested causeways to slow you down, you are no more than 15 minutes away from the beauty of the Palm Beaches.

People that usually go to Palm Beach Island now are coming to downtown to enjoy the riches. The newly renovated PBC Convention Center holds world-class exhibitions. Luxury condominiums and a 5-star hotel in the trendy Northwood area are in the works. West Palm Beach landscape is changing right before our eyes. Visionary billionaire and developer, Jeff Greene, is betting on it, $250 million worth.

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Meadow Ridge

Senior living in the spirit of hospitality

H

ow do you picture life at a senior living community? When it comes to independent living, some retirement communities choose to emulate the hospitality industry.

Seniors today expect more — larger apartments and villas, more flexibility in pricing and service packages, and programming that reflects their new perspectives on aging. Hospitality offers the possibility for this type of culture change.

Resident engagement in independent living is less about “taking care” of people, and more about providing opportunities for personal growth and fulfillment. Here’s a preview.

Anticipating needs.

From knowing your preferences in meal preparation to arranging a car for your Wednesday appointment, the goal is to anticipate your needs without you having to ask.

More freedom. More options.

Dining that ranges from fine cuisine served

restaurant-style to bistro and pub café fare.

At Meadow Ridge retirement community in Redding, CT, you’ll enjoy amenities for outdoor recreation like tennis and bocce courts, along with walking trails and a fishing pond. There’s an indoor swimming pool and sauna, a fitness center with senior-friendly equipment, as well as tremendous choice in leisure and learning opportunities through the community’s connection with Norwalk Community College.

Open, flexible spaces.

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circular promenade and three-story atrium and garden. This open concept carries through to include a large, multipurpose auditorium that can be outfitted with different technologies to accommodate different events. This gives lifestyle directors options to get creative with programming and activities, making the community a more fun place to live.

Bringing the outdoors in.

Other design touches at communities following a hospitality model include common areas designed to attract the children and grandchildren of residents, so families can be together in a way that really feels like home. Meadow Ridge offers guest suites that let family members spend the night in privacy and comfort. Indoor/

Streaming connectivity.

Online consumption of news and entertainment, taking classes remotely, and maintaining network connections with family and friends is becoming more mainstream every day. The best communities provide this connectivity and they’ll have friendly, helpful IT people on staff to make house calls.

Concierge services.

Communities like Meadow Ridge make your comfort their personal mission. Someone to serve you the best red wine in the house with a snack, arrange for your dry cleaning, and make sure your mail is picked up for the week while you’re away.

From the design sensibilities learned from the global hotel industry to a new culture of

outdoor spaces, such as courtyards, gardens, greenhouses, sunrooms, patios and balconies help keep your sunny side up.

Assistance with transportation.

At Meadow Ridge, you can enjoy shuttle service for shopping in town, or private car service to your individual appointments.

Some communities, depending on size, may provide valet golf cart service to whisk you to your destination on campus.

creative service offerings and useful, enjoyable amenities, senior living communities like Meadow Ridge are redefining the level of hospitality you can expect to enjoy in your retirement years.

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A N D C O M F O R T TO M E N ’S F O O T W E A R – I D E A L F O R W O R K , P L AY A N D T R AV E L Men’s footwear has always taken second place to options available for women. Not so anymore. Today’s male consumer wants it all in one pair of shoes – great looking style, comfort, versatility and durability. Men want shoes for the office, dining out and for walking the dog. Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company, founded by Bruce Katz, cofounder of The Rockport Company, recently introduced its collection of men’s shoes, and is giving consumers exactly what they want.

“Samuel Hubbard® offers a quality product at an excellent price and they are only selling it at the best doors across the country,” notes Jason Rogowsky, CEO of the Shoe Parlor in NYC. “Consumers looking to buy a great pair of shoes should take note of this new line.”

Consumers and retailers agree. Samuel Hubbard is creating an identity that resonates with style aficionados who immediately notice the brand’s clear vision. Consumers say Samuel Hubbard really is the next generation of a comfort shoe that appeals to old and young.

“The clean, classic simplicity is what attracted us to the shoes, and fun colors made them shine,” said Sarah Koeppe, who purchased a pair for her husband.

“How men dress for work and play has been changing for decades now, and the current male consumer has a different attitude towards what kind of footwear can be worn in the office, or after work for that matter,” said Daniel Hanig, buyer at Hanig’s Footwear in Chicago.

“New name, fresh, innovative, Samuel Hubbard fits the bill and speaks to our customers,” said Samantha Leta, assistant buyer at Mar-Lou Shoes in Lyndhurst, Ohio. “You can’t put a customer in a shoe better than the way Samuel Hubbard has.”

Samuel Hubbard shoes are designed around function, often taking a year to develop that perfect fit. Once satisfied, Katz and his designers consider the fashion aspect. Its Un-Sneaker™ collection, for consumers with an active lifestyle, has the comfort of a sneaker, but a look far more versatile than a traditional sneaker. Its Go To Work™ collection is designed for the office or an evening on the town. The Limited Edition collection is a bit daring in color offerings, such as Lime Green and Ocean Blue, and is scoring high marks with younger consumers.

“My father always said, ‘we make friends with our shoes,’” said Katz. “That statement always stuck with me and I wanted to make a shoe that people love. We want Hubbard shoes to be the favorite shoes in their closet. All of the development models are made in our own sizes so that we can test the shoes from the very first prototypes, all the way through to the final model. We literally ‘walk the talk’.”

Bruce Katz is following in his father’s footsteps, but he is applying a modern touch that is resonating with today’s demanding consumers.

Samuel Hubbard shoes are available at specialty shoe retailers across the country and at: SamuelHubbard.com

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How does a major commercial business go from a hard-hat to a soft touch?

Rick Spring, founder and CEO of Northeast Diving Services has accomplished that with a flourish. His Connecticut-based commercial dive company is renowned as the “go-to” specialists and water experts. The company’s hard-hat diving challenges range from sewage treatment facilities and industrial intake systems and pipelines to hazmat licensed cleanup.

Their commercial work includes everything from dredging to body recovery.

Yes, body recovery. If you’ve dropped, misplaced or lost an item, even a loved one, underwater, one of Northeast Diving Services expert services is underwater recovery.

But now, the company has added a new dimension, a soft touch; a unique approach for homeowners with pond or lake issues. They’ve developed expert, environmentally safe pond and aquatic solutions for residential properties.

Spring and his staff at Northeast Diving Services offer completely natural eradication of the most invasive aquatic plants clogging ponds and lakes throughout the region. Their approach is entirely animal, human and environment-safe, using no chemicals or pesticides, and leaving waterways clear and clean. Northeast Diving Services has perfected techniques that control and eliminate invasive species of plants and animals in backyard and neighborhood waters using systems and techniques that don’t require toxic chemicals.

One of the most effective elimination pathways is using suction cutter head devices and suction harvest units. The instruments are inserted down in the water where they function as an underwater vacuum system. A diver is then sent to manipulate the device and vacuum the roots of invasive plants right out of the ground. The mechanism is specifically designed to take only the plant roots, not rocks, netting or soil. The operation can be target-specific, applied on a narrow or wide area, and tailored to be as cost-effective as the homeowner requires.

The company’s green and environmentally safe products are not limited to root suction tools. They are also big barley people. Barley and other natural additives can fight invasive plant species and keep them under control. Northeast Diving Services also uses another natural plant predator: designer, grass-eating carp.

The triploid carp, alive and perpetually patrolling ponds and lakes, is a uniquely engineered herb-devouring, stealth agent that eats only weeds. This genetically altered version of carp is a vegetarian and will not feed on other fish (or dogs or children) and is most productive as an herbivore. Specially bred to be sterile, there is no danger of the species proliferating into local waterways.

But they are efficient at ravaging aggressive and invasive aquatic plants such as milfoil, phragmites or cattails and algae blooms among other invasive and destructive aquatic plant life.

Northeast Diving Services are not limited to invasive plant control. They also build custom and manufactured docks and gazebos of all types using natural woods or marine plastics. A true water and marine specialist enterprise, Spring’s company also operates a commercial dive shop, open to the public, which offers classes and diver certifications.

Clean water, a new dock and the ability to explore your pond or lake above water or beneath: Northeast Dive Services offers the complete range of options to enjoy years of outdoor aquatic leisure activities.

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he only math museum in North America, MoMath is a space where the math-challenged and math enthusiasts of all backgrounds and levels of understanding can revel in the infinite world of mathematics through more than 30 state-of-the-art interactive exhibits.

Beaver Run

A New Permanent Exhibit

As two beavers travel at the same speed along a path of tracks and turntables, visitors remotely rotate the turntables containing quarter circle portions of track to create different pathways and millions of possible patterns.

Beaver Run presents visitors with a variety of interactive challenges. Visitors can try to connect the beavers’ entire habitat into a single circuit of tracks or try to isolate each beaver in its own corner of the forest, while ultimately trying to help the beavers return together back to their den.

No matter how the path changes or where the beavers turn, they will never meet.

How can one be certain that there is no sequence of moves that will bring the beavers together? How can people begin to understand an infinity of fruitless trails? This conundrum is exactly why math has developed the concept of ‘proof,’ the power of which Beaver Run will bring to light in a charming and hands-on way.

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College students: become a MoMath summer intern!

MoMath is now accepting applications for summer internships for current college students. Improve your interpersonal and communication skills, explore mathematical concepts, and learn valuable job skills. Please note that internships are unpaid. momath.org/jobs MoMath is located at 11 E 26th Street on the north side of Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. For more information, visit momath.org

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THAT PHYSICS SHOW That Physics Show, an evening of “scientific magic” by lifetime physics demonstrator David Maiullo, is playing at the Elektra Theatre.

What damage can a ping-pong ball do as it hurtles 700 miles an hour through a vacuum tube? Can you see the shape of sound in a dancing flame?

“OH, NO! That bowling ball is going to smash him in the face”…but it didn’t!

Based on the hundreds of physics experiments that are presented at physics conferences and in classrooms across the country, That Physics Show features segments on motion, momentum, vacuum, friction, energy, density, fluid motion, sound waves and sound vibration, light waves, temperature and more.

--David Maiullo has been a physics demonstrator at Rutgers University for over 20 years and most recently became a regular on “The Weather Channel” and a presenter at national physics festivals.

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Friday @ 7pm, Saturday @ 3pm & 7pm, and Sunday at 12pm & 3pm Select Wednesday matinee and evening performances are available. Tickets are $39-$49 and can be purchased online at ThatPhysicsShow.com or by calling OvationTix at 866-811-4111 Elektra Theater 300 West 43rd Street (entrance just west of 8th Avenue)

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LEMONARF STAND, A CLUB FOR KIDS The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, Inc. (ARF) announces the return of the Lemonarf Stand, A Club for Kids. In an effort to engage kids to become philanthropic, ARF has an official club to involve kids in raising funds for the animals at the ARF Adoption Center.

SASHA DUTRIEUX RAISED MONEY LAST SUMMER FOR THE ARF ANIMALS.

A Lemonarf Stand is just like a regular lemonade stand, only better.

ARF has created a Lemonarf Stand free starter kit, designed to help let people know that young participants are an important part of the ARF team, and that all of the money raised will go directly to the care of the animals at ARF. Last summer these young entrepreneurs raised $6,397.89 to help feed and care for ARF’s animals.

The kit includes:

• The official Lemonarf Stand homemade lemonade recipe. Kids can use this recipe or create their own refreshing beverage.

• The official Lemonarf Stand barking good cookie recipe. Kids may use this recipe or make their own treats.

• A Lemonarf poster to let everyone know that the stand raises money for ARF. Kids fill in what they are offering for sale and the price. They can decorate the poster as they see fit.

• The official Lemonarf minibank, to collect all of the donations and keep them safe until the child can bring the money to ARF. • Official Lemonarf cups.

• Official Lemonarf buttons, to let

everyone know you are an official member of the Lemonarf team.

The most important part of any Lemonarf Stand is that the children have fun! Kids can feel free to add items for sale such as homemade jewelry or art and set their own prices for the items for sale. Participants can also let ARF know where and when they are having their Lemonarf Stand and ARF will put it on their events calendar on Facebook.

Everyone who runs Lemonarf Stand this summer will also have their photo taken when they bring their donation to ARF and will be featured on ARF’s Facebook Page.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons actively rescues cats and dogs, provides quality care and offers sanctuary until loving homes can be found. Founded in 1974, ARF is the leading animal adoption center on the East End. www.arfhamptons.org

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COLLEGE RANKINGS:

EARNINGS

WHICH COLLEGES PRODUCE THE HIGHEST EARNING GRADUATES?

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espite the proliferation of college ranking lists, there’s no way to determine “the best college” outside of the interests and needs of the individual applicant.

However, the Brookings Institution spent 2015 crunching an enormous amount of data in an attempt to answer the question which colleges add the most value? In reviewing their data, we found much that would be of interest to students and parents, one of which is the ten-year earnings of graduates. The results aren’t what many would expect.

But before we get to graduate earnings, here are a few conclusions we can draw from the colleges that add the most overall value. First, graduates of several colleges enjoy much more economic success than their demographic characteristics at time of admission would suggest. A list of the top colleges that perform best in graduate earnings or value-added doesn’t look much like a mainstream college ranking, and many colleges outperform colleges that are significantly more difficult in the admissions process. Therefore, difficulty in admission is a poor indicator of added value or earnings.

Second, the value-added metric is remarkably consistent over time (as is the earnings data), so you can expect most of the same colleges to appear in the “Top 30” rankings over the years. The data for the class entering in 1997 strongly predicted the value-added for the class entering in 2005. There were some exceptions; Emory, Stanford, Yale, and Georgetown showed considerable value-added 200

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improvement. But for the vast majority of colleges, the following conclusions will likely be applicable for many years. So what patterns do we find in top value-added colleges?

The data that was included in the study included all available information, and the four factors that correlated most strongly with higher earnings and very strongly with added value are: > Curriculum Value. Colleges that consistently teach their students a strong curriculum that corresponds to market demand scored highly in value-added and earnings rankings. > STEM. The specific curriculum that has the strongest correlation to earnings and added value is Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Include health sciences in STEM and you’ve got most of the top added value colleges.

For Curriculum Value and STEM, 23 of the top 30 value-added colleges have a strong core curriculum and 25 of 30 have strong curricula or strong STEM programs (often both).

The other two factors that strongly correlate with earnings and high value-added ranking are: > Completion Rates. Colleges that rank highly tend to have above average completion rates (e.g. most students in their freshman class graduate). So the colleges in the top 30 (by value-added or rankings) tend to graduate nearly all their students. > Faculty Salaries. Perhaps not surprising but not widely reported and usually overlooked. The top value-added and earnings colleges

{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } tend to have faculty salaries that are considerably above average. In many cases, this is a reflection that the faculty have valuable skills (thus highly compensated), and are passing those skills onto their students.

Application to College Admissions Probably the single biggest lesson from value-added and earnings rankings is that value-added and earnings do not correlate with admission difficulty (admission rates or test scores). The average SAT scores for top earnings colleges was 650 (verbal) and 680 (math), but they range from 530/540 (verbal/ math) to 770/790 (verbal/math). (All SAT scores are 2014-2015 50th percentile). And admission rates for these colleges range between 5% and 89%.

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is an example of a college that consistently admits fairly average students (570 verbal and 610 math) at a fairly average acceptance rate (54%) and graduates students who will make six-figure incomes within a decade. Rose-Hulman similarly admits at an average rate (58%), and the 50th percentile SAT scores are 610 and 690, yet the school ranks above Princeton in value-added and ten-year earnings.

Also worth noting is that only one pure liberal arts college ranked in the national lists: Washington and Lee. Harvard and Princeton are both labeled liberal arts, but their data includes many nonliberal arts majors (e.g. engineering), and U. Penn is labeled “mixed” (liberal arts/business/engineering). So, Washington and Lee is the pure liberal arts college with the greatest value-add and highest earners – most probably didn’t see that coming.

Below are the top 30 colleges by graduates’ annual earnings ten years after graduating.

THE TOP VALUE-ADDED AND EARNINGS COLLEGES TEND TO HAVE FACULTY SALARIES THAT ARE CONSIDERABLY ABOVE AVERAGE. IN MANY CASES, THIS IS A REFLECTION THAT THE FACULTY HAVE VALUABLE SKILLS, AND ARE PASSING THOSE SKILLS ONTO THEIR STUDENTS. Review of comprehensive data from 3,239 U.S. colleges. Data produced 2015 by Brookings using Class of 1997-2001 college demographic data and 2011 (ten-year) median earning data. 10 Year Earnings are average 2011 annual salary for the 2001 graduating class.

About Andover. Headquartered in Westport, CT, Andover offers test prep classes/tutoring, academic tutoring, and college admissions consulting. Andover has raised thousands of ACT and SAT scores in Fairfield County over the past 15 years and has the highest verified score improvement on both tests. More information can be found at www.AndoverCollegePrep.com. To find out more about value-added rankings, check out Andover’s articles on CampusBeast.com

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } SUMMER PROGRAMS UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Cambridge, UK

International Summer Programmes SUMMER PROGRAMMES FOR UNDERGRADUATES, GRADUATES AND ADULT STUDENTS Over the centuries, the historic University of Cambridge has helped to shape and change the world through innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries: 92 of its affiliates have won Nobel Prizes.

The University’s International Summer Programmes (3 July–13 August) offer a heady mixture of tradition and innovation, as hundreds of new and returning students absorb the atmosphere of this remarkable place, learning from some of its finest academics – and from each other. The programmes have a reputation for excellent teaching, fascinating courses, and intriguing lectures. Every year, graduates, undergraduates and other adults of all ages and backgrounds bring their learning and life experience to the classroom. There is no shortage of new ideas and opinions.

Almost 200 courses make up eight open-access programmes: Science, Literature, Shakespeare, Creative Writing, Ancient and Classical Worlds, History, Medieval Studies and Interdisciplinary. Some students stay for all six weeks, others just for one or two. The Interdisciplinary Summer Programme comprises three independent two-week terms, which allow for two-, four- and six-week study periods. Courses include international politics and relations, philosophy, economics, archaeology, history of science and art history. You can focus on courses in the same discipline, or choose courses in different subject fields.

There is also a four-week English Legal Methods Programme, designed for lawyers and law students with no knowledge of the English legal system.

Adding to the academic experience, there’s the chance to stay in one of four historic Cambridge Colleges near the city centre.

Each is different in character, but all offer a warm welcome and the opportunity to meet fellow students studying other subjects.

Participants become familiar with Cambridge in a way that few are privileged to experience as they share meals in magnificent dining halls and have time to discover a peaceful side of the city that tourists seldom see. Long, light summer days provide opportunities to explore the beautiful Colleges, visit the many museums and art galleries, relax in a punt on the river, or share a traditional English tea in nearby Grantchester. In the evenings there are talks, concerts and ceilidhs (traditional folk dances). At weekends, students can join excursions to London, Windsor, Stratford-upon-Avon and Bletchley Park.

The University of Cambridge International Summer Programmes offer a rich and rewarding mix of range, teaching quality, academic rigour, accessibility, people and place. It all adds up to a winning combination of innovation and tradition: the best of both worlds.

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WHERE THERE BE DRAGONS Global citizenship & leadership programs in the developing world since 1993

Mapmakers once drew Dragons to represent lands unknown. Bold explorers who ventured beyond the map’s edge were said to go “where there be dragons”…

Where There Be Dragons is the leader in cross-cultural education. We offer 4/6 week high school summer programs and 3 month Gap Year semester courses for students ages 15-22. On every course, a team of 3 experienced instructors guides students off the map’s edge to engage them in an intensive exploration of place and of self in 17 different countries around the world.

We are dedicated to cross-cultural education because we believe that future leaders will be required to think beyond border and tribe when considering the affects of resource scarcity on a global community. Our summer and semester programs are designed to give young adults the cross-cultural competencies and selfawareness to be active participants in this conversation.

What makes a Dragons course different?

A Dragons course is agile.

We hire experts. With an average of 4+ years of in-country experience, Dragons Instructors are able to communicate in local dialects and offer expert excellent adult mentorship throughout the student experience. Cultural fluency allows instructor teams to manage responsive itineraries and capitalize on unexpected learning opportunities.

A Dragons course is bold.

We don’t charter buses and when possible we stay with families rather than in hotels. We believe that traveling “close to the ground” allows us to connect more intimately across cultures. We welcome a crowded public bus or an unexpected cup of tea as a learning opportunity.

A Dragons course is instructor-driven.

Individual instructor teams collaborate to design a customized course itinerary based on their personal in-country experience and the interests of their incoming student group. This offers students a unique voice in the course design process and it offers our instructors the opportunity to be creative as they execute their own vision.

A Dragons course is not designed to be easy. It is designed to challenge every student and offer unique insights into the critical global issues of our time. Going ‘where there be dragons’ takes courage… we still go there. Will you?

Toll Free: 1-800-982-9203 For more information: info@wheretherebedragons.com

{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } DEERFIELD ACADEMY Deerfield, MA

Deerfield Academy’s innovative summer program, The Experimentory, invites you to join us in interdisciplinary, projectbased learning! Our rapidly changing world requires students to think critically and creatively across boundaries, solve complex problems, and collaborate with others. These crucial skills are at the heart of The Experimentory’s program, created for rising seventh and eighth graders from around the globe.

Combining tradition and innovation Deerfield Academy has a rich school history and culture, and a beautiful campus where students learn and play in a safe and caring environment. Experimentory students will immerse themselves in this traditional setting, while pushing the boundaries of ideas and success into new realms, learning the skills that are essential in today’s world.

Exploring new territory The Experimentory is geared towards seventh and eighth graders, who are in the process of becoming young adults–a perfect time to explore new territory and develop new skills. The program also provides the full boarding school experience, modeling respectfulness, responsibility, independence, and empathy in a residential setting.

Working across disciplines Rather than focusing on just one area of study, Experimentory students learn by mixing disciplines in novel ways.

In 2016, our interdisciplinary course pairings mix music composition + film production, theater + electronics, and cultural studies + architecture and design.

Cluster learning is directed towards the completion of collaborative projects of the students’ choosing. Possible projects include theater costumes that transform on cue, a stop-motion film inspired by a musical piece, or a restaurant design that harmonizes the building with the cuisine. These sorts of projects foster creative problem solving by encouraging students to think across disciplinary divisions.

Collaborating across cultures Innovation happens at the intersections between people as well.

The Experimentory attracts students from the United States and around the world, creating a cross-cultural experience. Some of our students are storytellers, but haven’t yet dabbled in music; some are painters, but are newbies at computing. Experimentory projects are collaborative, bringing together these disparate skills and experiences and teaching our students how to work together for a common goal.

Balancing work and play Summers are a time for young people to recharge and have fun--and balancing work and play is an important life skill. In the classroom we underscore the playful and satisfying nature of creating new things. But our program also includes field trips, movie nights, afternoon sports and crafts, hikes, and many, many memories.

Join us as we innovate at the intersections! www.deerfield.edu/experimentory

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN PRE-COLLEGE + SUMMER STUDIES Providence, RI

RISD Founded in 1877, Rhode Island School of Design (or “RIZ-dee” for the acronym RISD) is one of the oldest and best-known colleges of art and design in the U.S. The college is located in Providence, Rhode Island, which offers its own vibrant art scene and is conveniently located between two other major cultural centers: Boston and New York.

Students at RISD access the institution’s one-of-a-kind Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, RISD Museum featuring more than 86,000 works of fine and decorative art and the RISD Fleet Library, recently named by Travel + Leisure as one of America’s most beautiful college libraries.

Pre-College Each summer, 400+ high school students from around the world come to RISD for a comprehensive introduction to the college art school experience. Definitely not an arts camp, the six-week residential Pre-College program is focused, serious and challenging. Students experience the core elements of a RISD education – critical thinking and artmaking – in foundation drawing and design courses, critical studies in art, and a concentration in one of 21 diverse majors.

RISD Pre-College students have varied backgrounds and choose the program for many reasons: to find out if the arts is the right choice for them, to further pursue their art or to build their portfolio for college applications. Whatever the catalyst, students attending RISD Pre-College have one thing in common–they are passionate about art and design and are seeking an incomparable arts education and summer experience. precollege.risd.edu Summer Studies RISD’s Summer Studies program in the visual arts and design encompasses a wide spectrum of interests to meet the needs of beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Students from colleges and universities around the world, as well as art and design professionals interested in new creative experiences, are drawn to RISD’s vibrant artistic community.

Scores of accomplished, award-winning artists, designers and educators – including members of RISD’s degree program faculty – teach in the summer programs. Courses include introductions to fine art fundamentals such as drawing and painting, as well as specialized areas of study such as architecture and industrial design, or graphic design, as offered through the Summer Institute of Graphic Design Studies. In addition, RISD Global Summer Programs offer travel learning opportunities for students interested in understanding the role of art and design in various cultures.

Whether augmenting current college curriculum or broadening professional skills, RISD Summer Studies offers students a unique, intense and exceptional learning experience. risd.edu/summer W E STO N MA GAZINEG ROUP.COM

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } PUTNEY STUDENT TRAVEL For 64 years, Putney Student Travel has offered high school and middle school students the opportunity and insight to shape their world through travel, unique cultural engagement, friendship, and fun. Our summer programs range from two to five weeks in length and include pre-college enrichment, community service, language immersion, adventure travel, and cultural immersion. With 41 programs in 28 countries, there is a Putney program to fit your passions and expand your worldview. We are particularly excited this year about returning programs in Cuba, Thailand, and Shanghai, as well as new additions such as Skiing in Patagonia, Diving in Belize, Community Service in Nepal, Cultural Exploration in Morocco, and an Adventure-a-Day program in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Who are Putney Students?

Put simply, Putney students are interested in connecting and exploring. Whether it is taking a Business and Economics seminar on campus at Amherst College, reconditioning a school together with community leaders in rural Nepal, or bargaining in Spanish at an openair market in Otavalo, Ecuador, Putney students have a keen interest in going beyond the more surface-level interactions of a typical teen tour.

They seek to connect — as only a traveler can — with people, places, topics that capture their interest, development issues, one another, their leaders, and the communities in which they live.

What makes Putney unique?

Our experience and leadership. In addition to a 64-year track record of safety and security, our long-term dedication to experiential learning means we know how to engage students, capture their curiosity, and facilitate their success and discoveries. Many of our network of collaborators, partners, and host communities around the world are meeting with their second or even third generation of Putney students; we are treated as family, not as tourists. Further, our immensely talented and experienced program leaders make all the difference. Leaders are college graduates, have significant living experience abroad, a shared commitment to safety, a passion for exploration, and an enthusiasm for helping students become active creators of their own unique experiences. See bios for all 2015 leaders here: www.goputney.com/leaders From learning photography at Pre-College Paris, to cooking a feast with Farm to Table Italy, to snorkeling with friends from your host village in Fiji — go beyond this summer. Go Putney. www.goputney.com

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SMITH COLLEGE PRECOLLEGE SUMMER PROGRAMS Northampton, MA

For talented girls entering grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 in fall 2016 Smith College Precollege Summer programs offer intellectually stimulating and unique opportunities for high school girls and

international students who wish to pursue their academic interests in the classroom and beyond. Annually, these programs, offer some 250 young women the freedom to explore challenging and intriguing subjects, to strengthen their college applications, and to increase their exposure to the Smith undergraduate experience while living and studying with other motivated and ambitious students from around the world. Our program offerings include Summer Science and Engineering, Women’s Writing, Discovering Women’s History, and Field Studies for Sustainable Futures.

Each summer, Smith welcomes to these programs young women from many nationalities and diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds who together form an extraordinary intellectual community. The learning environment is hands-on, collaborative, exploratory, challenging and rich in role models. Professors who are world-class scholars offer personal attention in the classroom while encouraging students’ interests and passions and helping them develop new academic skills.

Here young women are taken seriously and inspired to excel—as scholars, scientists, leaders. www.smith.edu/summer/contact.php

{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS SUMMER PROGRAMS IN ROME

PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAMS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY In the Alban Hills just South of Rome, amid olives trees, umbrella pines, SUMMER 2016 and a vineyard, the University of Dallas has a campus where it offers two courses for college credit to qualified high school students, Latin in Rome and Shakespeare in Italy. Each course includes morning travel into the city to visit museums, monuments, and artistic, historical or archaeological sites connected with the primary texts that constitute the curriculum. Afternoons and evenings involve reading and reflection and seminars, spent discussing and interpreting these texts, as would be done in small classes at the college level. The intent is to give high school students a taste of what is to come, but to do so in the context in which these texts are set, and consequently to bring the texts to life in a way that cannot be duplicated at home.

Latin in Rome is led by Dr. David Sweet, Chair of the Classics Department, with the assistance of other faculty and graduate students in Classics. The course reads selections from Cicero (Letters), Vergil (Georgics), Livy, Tacitus, Pliny, Suetonius, and Latin inscriptions, such as the Laudatio Turiae. Day trips are included to archaeological sites in the area of Rome, and on a five day trip to the Bay of Naples, students visit Vesuvius, Pompeii, Oplontis, Sorrento, Capri, Cumae, Monte Cassino, and Cicero’s home town, Arpinum, all the while reading Latin texts that illuminate these sites. A recent participant shared, “I love Latin, and your program has all the more inspired me towards pursuing the language

Providence, RI

A True Residential College Experience Brown’s Pre-College Programs attract serious college-bound students from around the world. As a student, you’ll live in a Brown University residence hall, eat at a Brown dining hall, and join your fellow students on The College Green—just as you would if you were a Brown undergraduate. You will be surrounded by peers from diverse backgrounds and cultures—all sharing a passion for high-level academics and a desire to succeed at a selective institution like Brown University. A student who completes a

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Pre-College course is better prepared, more confident, and better positioned to succeed during one of the biggest transitions of his or her life: the move to college.

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very seriously in the future, to majoring in Classics and beyond.”

Shakespeare in Italy is led by Dr. Gregory Roper, Chair of the English Department, Dr. Andrew Moran, Associate Professor of English, and Professor Stefan Novinski, Associate Professor of Drama, with the assistance of graduate students in English. The professors lead the students through reading, discussing, and enacting the most compelling works of William Shakespeare, including Julius Caesar and the Merchant of Venice, amid the enchanting and breathtaking Italian settings of Venice and Padua. The emphasis is not only on enabling them to read with greater insight and become more polished writers, but to envision the lively stage in which these plays were set. A recent participant shared, “Each professors’ insight and encouragement taught me to look at and think about art, architecture and society in a different way.”

For further information: email: udsummer@udallas.edu www.udallas.edu/travel

Brown University: 250 Years of Academic Excellence Brown is known in the Ivy League for an innovative open curriculum that challenges students to be actively engaged in their own intellectual development. Pre-College Programs are an opportunity to explore this stimulating learning environment.

Academics are at the program’s core, with more than 300 courses in one- to seven-week sessions on campus, online and abroad.

Dive deeper into a subject you love or a new area of learning you may never have considered. You will face exciting challenges and accomplish more than you can imagine.

Come to Brown Pre-College Programs to experience college life, prepare for academic success, and make new friends from around the world.

Brown University Pre-College Programs.

Providence, Rhode Island www.brown.edu/summer

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SUMMER SESSION MANHATTAN AND BRONX CAMPUSES

THE EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING

Fordham University invites visiting college students and rising high school seniors to catch up or get ahead. This summer, you can meet your goals with more than 200 day and evening classes in two convenient locations, affordable tuition rates, and top-tier instruction for easy course transfer.

Gain Pre-College Experience and Credit Getting serious about getting into college? Consider the advantages of taking a class at Fordham University this summer.

You’ll gain real college experience in the classroom and beyond so that you can choose the right school for you next year. Connect with students, professors, and administrators, and receive advice and guidance. Earn transferable credits toward your college degree. Learn something new while strengthening your college applications. This program is for rising high school seniors with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Catch Up or Get Ahead in Your Field Trying to gain experience through an internship? Fordham’s Summer in the City Internship Program helps students secure New York internships, receive credit, and make the most of their positions with valuable career guidance. Need to fulfill pre-med prerequisites? Fordham’s extensive offerings in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics allow students to stay on track for graduate or medical school applications. Did you switch or add a major? Core and advanced classes in every discipline help students to catch up on requirements so they can graduate on time.

The Fordham Musical Theatre Summer Intensive, a five-week program offered

by Fordham’s renowned theatre department, was created for actors who want to pursue their passion in a city equally passionate about the craft. The curriculum includes intensive training in musical theatre, vocal technique, dance, acting, and theatre games; classwork is brought to life when students attend weekly Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway theatre performances.

For those considering a career in law or politics, Fordham offers several exciting opportunities. The new Fordham Pre-Law Institute, developed in collaboration with Fordham Law School, will offer an introduction to the fundamentals of the U.S. legal system and help students prepare for the law school admission process. And, this summer, former U.N. ambassador Hamid al Bayati will teach The United Nations and Political Leadership, a course that will give students an insider’s view into the politics of diplomacy.

Think Summer, Think Fordham.

To learn more, call 718-817-4665 or visit fordham.edu/summer

Apply now for summer 2016! Applications are accepted through April 15.

Summer 2017 programs will be listed on the Experiment website in August.

An 80-Plus-Year History of Leadership and Innovation The Experiment in International Living has been providing immersive experiential learning programs abroad since 1932. Each year, students come away from an Experiment program with invaluable new skills, connections, awareness, and knowledge that helps them to thrive—and lead—in diverse intercultural environments.

The Experiment currently offers 34 summer abroad programs for high school students in Europe; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; North Africa and the Middle East; and Africa, south of the Sahara.

The Experiment Difference Thematic Focus Experiment programs equip participants not only with essential cultural skills and, in many cases, language skills, but also with a deeper awareness of and sensitivity to critical global issues shaping the diverse communities and regions we visit. Experiment program themes: • Arts and Social Change • Peace, Politics, and Human Rights • Language and Cultural Discovery • Sustainability and the Environment • Experiment Leadership Institute Providing Access and Promoting Diversity The Experiment is committed to providing participants from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds with access to The Experiment’s immersive cross-cultural programs through its partnerships, scholarships, and other initiatives. In 2015, The Experiment awarded $2.1 million in financial assistance as Experiment scholarships.

Experiment groups represent a range of backgrounds: small towns and large cities; urban and rural areas; and public, private, and homeschool educational experiences. In addition to learning about the host culture, Experimenters learn about the diverse cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds that exist within the US and worldwide.

In summer 2015, more than 550 Experimenters traveled to 26 countries and came from 37 US states and 11 countries.

Global Network and Family of Programs The Experiment in International Living is the founding program of World Learning, a private, non-profit international organization.

Other World Learning programs: • SIT Study Abroad (accredited semester and summer abroad programs for undergraduate students) • SIT Graduate Institute (master’s degrees and professional development programs) • World Learning International Development Programs (preparing communities worldwide to effectively address critical issues) • World Learning International Exchange Programs (academic, professional, and cultural exchanges) www.experiment.org | experiment@worldlearning.org Phone 800 345-2929 | TTY 802 258-3388 | Fax 802 258-3427 PO Box 676, 1 Kipling Road, Brattleboro VT 05302 USA

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Extraordinary High School Summer Abroad Programs

{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } THE COOPER UNION ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SUMMER STEM PROGRAM NYC, NY

New York City is positioning itself as a leader in engineering innovation and has seen a dramatic rise in tech startups in recent years. The Albert Nerken School of Engineering at the Cooper Union has been preparing high school students to pursue undergraduate careers in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) fields for over 25 years. The Summer STEM Program is an intensive, six-week experience that immerses students in hands-on engineering design and problem-solving, thereby placing students on the right track for careers in technological innovation.

Students work closely with Cooper Union faculty at the forefront of engineering education. Projects range broadly and include robotics, digital fabrication, computer programming and app development, biomedical and genetic engineering, improved urban infrastructure, and even race car design. Faculty and teaching assistants from the departments of civil, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering provide students with foundational knowledge and expert guidance to address real-world problems in their respective disciplines of expertise.

Students also attend workshops on oral presentation skills, technical writing, career counseling, and college admissions. They are given access to Cooper Union’s library resources, computer facilities, and laboratories to perform their research, design, analysis, and prototyping. Typically, projects include at least one field trip to a local museum, exhibition, or gallery to enhance the students’ experience.

This program culminates with each group submitting a technical paper summarizing their research and presenting their work to an audience of invited guests. To recognize their successful completion of the program students will receive a certificate of achievement from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.

Program Timing: July 5th – August 11th, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, Monday-Thursday Location: The Cooper Union New Academic Building at 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003 Eligibility: Current high school sophomores and juniors spending the summer in the Greater NYC area Find out more at: summer-stem.cooper.edu Contact us with questions: summerSTEM@cooper.edu or 212-353-4293

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NYC, NY

Columbia University’s Summer Sessions offer the opportunity to take classes or begin a certificate program from across the University. Taught by world-class faculty, courses are available in over 50 subject areas, including Arts, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Human Rights, International Affairs, Mathematics, Prelaw, and Statistics.

Summer is a terrific time to learn something new, advance careers, and meet like-minded people in the setting of one of the world’s most vibrant cities.

Each summer, Columbia attracts students already enrolled in degree programs, individuals looking to improve their knowledge in anticipation of applying for higher education programs, professionals who want to move toward the next step in their career, and seeking personal enrichment through Post baccalaureate studies.

Summer students have access to the state-of-the-art student center, gym and recreational facilities, as well as one of the most renowned library collections in the nation. The varying academic needs and backgrounds of students who attend the Summer Sessions make the community one of the most diverse and dynamic on campus.

Expert advisers help students customize a summer plan of action, whether they have their goals lined up and need a few more courses to fulfill them, or they’re starting a new career and want to deepen their knowledge in a field. Taking advantage of the resources of one of the world’s most esteemed universities can help any student reach his or her next step.

Columbia University’s Summer Session 1 runs from May 23– July 1, 2016, and Summer Session 2 from July 5–August 12, 2016. Application deadlines begin in May. To apply, see a complete summer calendar, and learn more about summer options at Columbia, visit www.sps.columbia.edu/learnsummer2016 In addition to classes for visiting and returning students, Columbia University’s Summer Programs for High School Students offer high-achieving students the opportunity to experience college life in the Ivy League while sampling the vibrancy of New York City as well as programs in Barcelona and Jordan. All programs combine academic rigor and instructional excellence with lively extracurricular offerings and careful supervision and support.

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HOPKINS

Santa Barbara, CA

New Haven, CT

FullSport Academy is a residential summer camp located in Santa Barbara, California, offering an array of sports in addition to a specialized leadership program for campers ages 9-16. FullSport Academy sessions include tennis, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, water polo, and swim. Also offered is an Ocean Sports option, which is comprised of surf, stand up paddle-boarding, and beachfront fitness.

What do we do differently?

FullSport Academy provides three, two-week sessions of sunshine-soaked programming for campers who seek the ultimate camp experience. With several field trips to regional attractions throughout the sessions, FullSport Academy shares a sports-oriented camp environment dedicated to endurance, natural foods, and the coastal environment of Southern California.

The Academy was designed specifically for 21st century families out of a passion for working with children, supporting young athletes, and encouraging healthy living and leadership in campers.

Why offer lacrosse? Why offer water polo? Why snack sciences?

Director and founder Kelley Rasmussen explains, “We strived to establish the East Coast camp tradition on the West Coast. With a blending of sports that highlight the region, we bring together campers for a once in a lifetime experience.”

What do you do besides sports?

In addition to the regular programming, FullSport Academy also includes a rotation of culinary snack sciences and leadership training in the afternoon. Working with nutritionists and career athletes, the Lifestyle Learning section provides a hands-on experience for campers to make endurance sustaining snacks that both look and taste good!

But what makes FullSport Academy special?

“This is the most beautiful experience we could dream for youth to be a part of, and for us to assist our campers better understand the fundamentals of taking leadership in a group dynamic, work together to create endurance sustaining snacks and talk with athletes who have lived magical lives—this is nothing less than amazing to witness,” Assistant Director Ixchel Mazer said.

The sleep-away camp experience is revered as character building and adds positively to a child’s lifetime memory bank. But it’s not the sports that make the program, nor is it the leadership coaches who assist in campers’ development that make it an extraordinary camp experience. It is the campers who guide themselves to success!

Register Now Session I: Sunday, June 26 — Saturday July 9 Session II: Sunday, July 10 — Saturday, July 23 Session III: Sunday, July 24 — Saturday, August 6 Register online at www.fullsportacademy.com or email info@fullsportacademy.com

Summer at Hopkins is a unique experience of learning, discovery and fun. Situated in the Westville section of New Haven on the School’s 108-acre campus, the Hopkins program offers students a wide array of academic and enrichment courses, skills-building athletic camps and chess for all ages and levels of play. The summer program is in session from June 27-August 5, with a daily schedule of 8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Outstanding educators and coaches ensure a rewarding learning experience.

The Upper School Summer School program is for students in grades 9-12 and offers a selection of core academic and enrichment courses including Physics, Literary Skills and Analysis, Introduction to Computer Programming and Comprehensive ACT and SAT Review. The academic credit courses provide 90+ hours of teaching in a given subject area and require an equivalent amount of outof-class study time. Non-credit academic review courses provide between 30 and 60 hours of class-based learning. Classes are small, typically averaging between 10 and 14 students.

The Middle School Program is for students in grades 7-8 and offers academic and enrichment courses and for students seeking to expand their horizons or strengthen core learning skills. Examples of courses offered include Expository and Creative Writing, PreAlgebra, Introduction to Computer Programming, Phone-Cam Film School and Web Design.

The Lower School Program is an age-appropriate, six-week learning and enrichment program for elementary school students who will be entering grades 3 through 6 in the fall. Teachers are selected for their command of core educational disciplines at this level (reading, writing, mathematics, and science); their ability to work easily and effectively with younger students; and, perhaps most importantly, their desire to ensure that the learning experience is both stimulating and fun.

Classes are typically 10 to 12 students on average.

The summer sports program at Hopkins includes squash, at all levels, basketball, football, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, fencing and hockey. For more detailed information on Summer at Hopkins, go to hopkins.edu/ summerschool to download the catalog and to apply online.

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } EAGLE HILL SCHOOL Greenwich, CT

SUMMER PROGRAMS 2016 Academic Program / For ages 5-12 Director: Deane Flood (d.flood@eaglehill.org) DATES: Monday to Friday, June 29-August 5, 2016 TIME: 8 a.m. to 12 noon REGULAR OPTION: At the heart of this program is an intense schedule of academic instruction based on diagnosed needs. Taught primarily by Eagle Hill School faculty, the four-hour daily program includes a language/reading tutorial plus four additional subject areas taught in a small group/class environment: Mathematics, Writing, Oral Language, Literature, and Study Skills.

FOUNDATIONS OPTION: The Foundations Option is designed to help students entering kindergarten and first grade develop and solidify the early learning skills they need to be successful in the classroom. Multisensory, hands-on experiences help students gain an understanding of academic concepts and social responsibility.

Summer Afternoon Activities Program / For ages 5-12 Director: Brian Dayton (b.dayton@eaglehill.org) DATES: Monday to Friday, June 29-August 5, 2016 TIME: 12-3:30 p.m.

NOTE: Open to students ages 5-12 registered in the Summer Academic Program only.

The Summer Afternoon Activities Program immerses young boys and girls in a fun and energetic midday program where group work, social skills, and fair play are emphasized.

Students will be encouraged to take risks and actively participate in a variety of group activities while fostering positive relationship with both staff and peers.

There is a lunch and snack break every day, plus activities that include indoor and outdoor games, field trips, weekly beach outings, arts & crafts, and more.

Summer Middle School Workshops / For students entering grades 6-9 Director: Casey Wilkinson (c.wilkinson@eaglehill.org) DATES: Workshop A: July 5-15 and/or Workshop B: July 18-29, 2016 TIMES: Session 1: 8-10 a.m. and/or Session 2: 10:15-12:15 p.m.

These two-week long, two-hour morning classes provide an opportunity for a range of both ages and skill level to work together as well as receive instruction tailored specifically to each student.

Each two-hour workshop will include a combination of direct instruction, cooperative group work, and individualized one-onone instruction. Students are grouped by age and skill, determined by pre-assessments whenever possible. We also offer an option for programming students continuously throughout all four weeks, maximizing their instruction. Each two-hour workshop during both Workshop A and B focuses on one of these four topics: Writing, Study Skills, Mathematics, or Reading Comprehension. www.eaglehill.org/summer-programs (203) 622-9240

SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN SUMMER PROGRAMS Atlanta and Savannah, GA and Hong Kong

With remarkable resources and facilities, expert faculty and diverse locations in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Savannah, SCAD is the perfect setting to create, learn and grow.

This summer, explore new avenues of artistic expression and inspire your imagination at the university for creative careers.

SCAD offers an array of engaging summer programs designed to give pre-college students like you the extraordinary opportunity to experience university life.

SCAD Rising Star Open to rising high school seniors Ready for a genuine university experience? This challenging fiveweek program awards college credit to rising high school seniors and allows students to enhance their portfolios with universitylevel coursework. Participants enroll in two classes and gain insider access to the university’s exceptional facilities — from studios and production suites to libraries, theaters, museums and galleries — to create and complete assignments. Individual attention is a hallmark of the SCAD experience, and Rising Star participants work closely and collaboratively with professors and peers in classes of 20 students or fewer. Students in the residential program live in a SCAD residence hall and all participants join in weekly activities that build familiarity with the university and unique area attractions.

Session dates Atlanta: June 20–July 22, 2016 / Hong Kong: June 27–July 29, 2016 Savannah: June 20–July 22, 2016 SCAD Summer Seminars Open to rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors Cultivate your creativity and meet peers from all over the world during weeklong art and design workshops. Students choose from two seminars, ranging from fashion to photography, animation, jewelry and more, and create tangible work to display in a closing exhibition. With classes of 15 students or fewer, workshops include demonstrations, lectures, studio sessions and local field trips. Daily social and cultural activities provide an authentic experience of SCAD student life in the city.

Session dates Atlanta Session I: June 26–July 2, 2016 Session II: July 10–16, 2016 Session III: July 24–30, 2016 Hong Kong Session I: July 18–22, 2016 Session II: July 25–29, 2016 Session III: Aug. 1–5, 2016 Savannah Session I: June 26–July 2, 2016 / Session II: July 10–16, 2016 Session III: July 17–23, 2016 / Session IV: July 24–30, 2016 Session V: July 31–Aug. 6, 2016 Register for SCAD summer programs in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Savannah at www.scad.edu/summer For more information, call 912.525.5100 or 800.869.7223 and email admission@scad.edu

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JOHN JAY COLLEGE

Charlotte, NC and Winston-Salem, NC

Got plans for the summer? Why not explore the hot topics and cool courses at John Jay College of Criminal Justice?

John Jay College, the preeminent international leader in educating for justice, is once again offering students the chance to accelerate their education, catch up on needed credits, and explore innovative courses in a compact, user-friendly format.

Summer courses begin May 31, and are being offered in threeweek, five-week and eight-week sessions. Just some of this summer’s course offerings include: The John Jay College Urban Field School, the only field school of its kind in the United States, designed to train students from colleges and universities across the country in urban ethnography and other cutting-edge research methods. Students will be immersed in an urban field site as anthropologists participating in their own study of “Millennials, Youth Crime, and Work in the Inner City.”

The New Face of Corrections, a series of three courses for those wishing to be at the forefront of criminal justice reform as “correctional educators,” prepared to teach inmates, parolees and probationers how to become part of a better community, and in the process contribute to reducing recidivism in the United States. Courses include The Law and Institutional Treatment; Corrections and Media; and Educating Behind Bars: Policy Implications, Programs and Issues in Correctional Education.

Global Structural Violence: War and Health, two provocative courses — Anthropology of War, and Anthropology of Health — that explore the death, injury, illness, subjugation, stigmatization and psychological trauma that are among the documented effects of structural violence experienced by flesh-and-blood human beings.

Crime and Punishment Series, in which students can enjoy a virtual trip backward in time to study A History of Crime in New York City, The History of Crime and Punishment in the United States, and Premodern Punishment: Crime and Punishment before 1700.

Summer Cyber Academy, a program for working professionals in cybersecurity and digital forensics as well as students aiming for a career in these fields. These graduate-level courses include Cybercriminology and Investigating Cybercrime.

John Jay’s rich liberal arts and professional curriculum prepares students to serve the public interest as leaders, scholars, heroes and engaged citizens. With New York City as the College’s extended campus, students have unparalleled opportunities to learn to cultivate their passions and become fierce advocates for justice in their communities.

For a complete schedule and course descriptions, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu/summer

Your Future is Waiting The Wake Forest Summer Immersion Program is an unforgettable experience that allows rising sophomores, juniors, seniors and rising college freshmen the opportunity to test-drive their career goals and get a glimpse of the future. The power and value of a summer enrichment program that challenges students to continue to learn and grow while they are away from school over the summer is unparalleled. Our programs are noncredit academic institutes focused in Business & Entrepreneurship, Law, Leadership, Medicine, Sports Marketing and Technology.

Residential & Nonresidential Institutes This summer, Wake Forest will offer residential programs in Business & Entrepreneurship and Medicine, on-campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Our uptown Charlotte campus offers nonresidential programs in Business & Entrepreneurship, Law, Leadership, Medicine, Sports Marketing and Technology.

These institutes combine traditional and lab curriculum with organized field trips, guest lectures and hands-on activities allowing students to gain valuable academic and career experience. Each weeklong institute gives students the opportunity to experience the “beat and pulse” of some of the most exciting career fields.

Students collaborate with industry experts, Wake Forest faculty, and are exposed to cutting edge research and technology within their field of study.

Wake Forest University – Educating the Whole Person Our philosophy: if you’re going to challenge yourself, there’s no sense in going halfway. What you don’t know will never inspire you. Jump in with both feet and never be afraid to lose yourself in finding what you were meant to do.

Wake Forest University, founded in 1834, is one of the nation’s premier collegiate universities in the Southeast. Wake offers the personal attention of a liberal arts college with the resources of a large research institution.

Career Focused and Goal-Oriented The Wake Forest Summer Immersion Program is transformational as students think about their futures and prepare for college. Students’ passions are ignited when they can see what it’s really like to be a cardiologist, entrepreneur, defense attorney, game designer, sports marketing executive, all while becoming leaders in their communities.

Fun and Friends Wake Forest Summer Immersion Programs seek talented, curious students that want exposure to the subjects that interest and challenge them. Surround yourself with like-minded peers while living the complete college experience and making new friends. Social evening activities and off-campus adventures will create memories that will last a lifetime. Apply Today! www.go.wfu.edu/sip 210

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } THE BOSTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE Wellesley, MA

The Boston Leadership Institute offers award-winning summer STEM research programs at the Dana Hall School, a premier private preparatory and boarding school located in Wellesley, MA. Students develop high-level research skills and subject matter expertise that strengthen credentials valuable for college admissions, interviews, and essays. High achieving 8th graders through rising high school seniors apply and undergo a selective admissions process.

The Boston Leadership Institute was named among five top summer science programs in the country by New York Times subsidiary, about. com, in 2012 and was again included when the list was updated in 2015.

The Boston Leadership Institute was named, Top 101 Best Summer Camp, appearing among three top academic summer programs on the 2013 list.

Programs are led by teachers who hold major teaching awards, teach at top ranked schools, and/ or hold advanced degrees from universities such as Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. Students take advantage of Boston’s prime location to visit premier research universities such as Harvard and MIT as well as world-renowned hospitals. Boston contains one of the world’s heaviest concentrations of leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies and students tour these as well.

Graduates have been accepted by top universities all over the world, including Yale, Dartmouth, McGill, Tufts, Columbia, Michigan, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell. Students from 35 states and 10 foreign countries enjoyed hands-on research programs last summer. Comparable numbers of males and females attend.

Dana Hall is located in Wellesley, MA, one of Boston’s most affluent suburbs, and is a 7 minute walk to the commuter rail providing access to downtown Boston. Fully equipped science labs contain state-ofthe-art features. For students choosing to board, dormitories are air-conditioned and contain kitchens. The beautifully landscaped campus contains beautiful playing fields, tennis courts, and basketball courts. The indoor recreational complex contains a 21,000-squarefoot gymnasium with two NCAA regulation-size basketball courts; a three-lane, suspended indoor track; an Aquatics Center featuring a 25-yard, six-lane pool; squash courts; and a large exercise room with pond-views. Boarding students also enjoy weekend trips to Boston, the second most popular tourist destination in the country and a magnet for students.

Three-week STEM research programs are offered in Applied Physics Research; Biological Research; Biomedical and Surgical Research; Biomedical Research: Contagious Disease; Biomedical Research: Genetics and Clinical Trials; Chemistry Research; Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Research; Engineering Research; Marine Biology; Neuroscience Research; and STEM Entrepreneurship.

Visit our website, www.bostonleadershipinstitute.com or call 617 283-4825.

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DAY & BOARDING SCHOOLS FUSION ACADEMY Fusion Academy is a revolutionary private middle and high school where positive relationships unlock academic potential. We are a non-traditional community of learning with the smallest class size possible: one student and one teacher per classroom. This allows us to personalize and customize curriculum for each student’s unique strengths, interests, and learning style. We are also able to personalize scheduling; students may enroll at any time (even during the summer) and take classes at a time of day that works best for them.

Our supportive staff and campus environment provide a safe space for students to flourish emotionally, socially, and academically. It includes a state-of-the-art recording studio and a mixed-media art studio for students to express their creativity. Our Homework Café® is where students complete all their homework before they leave for the day with help and supervision from a teacher.

Classes are offered at three levels: essential, college prep, and honors. From algebra to yoga and everything in between, we have a wide variety of classes to choose from. Students can enroll full-time, take classes for credit, or utilize our tutoring services. In addition to academics, we partner with outside therapeutic professionals to support students’ emotional health and help foster a balanced life.

While it’s impossible to put our students into categories, we generally serve students with the following backgrounds: ADHD, accelerated/gifted learners, dyslexia, mild learning differences, social challenges, school anxiety, or students with challenging schedules. Students who attend Fusion have one thing in common: traditional school isn’t working.

Fusion has over 30 campuses across the country in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas. This year we will also be opening schools in Washington D.C. and Virginia.

To find your nearest campus, visit FusionAcademy.com/campuses.

Chevie, a parent at our Dallas, TX campus, says “I’m so grateful for Fusion and what its done for my son. He suffers from anxiety and some learning differences… [The staff has] done an amazing job of getting to know him and teaching him in a way that engages him. The entire staff welcomes him and he finally feels like he fits in. He loves the one on one with the teachers and is able to learn at his pace. Fusion has saved his life and brought happiness back into his school world.”

Connect with us at FusionAcademy.com to learn more.

{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } FASNY – THE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF NEW YORK

THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL

Scarsdale, Larchmont and Mamaroneck, NY

The Rudolf Steiner School is the first Waldorf school in North America, and is a part of an international community of 1,200 schools worldwide.

“Global education and knowledge of the surrounding world is essential to the Waldorf curriculum,” says Brian Kaplan, Director of Communications, about the coed Nursery through Grade 12 school of 325 students. “Rudolf Steiner designed the Waldorf curriculum and opened the first school in Germany. Today, there are Waldorf schools globally, so it is built into the fabric of our school.”

Several members of our faculty are from international countries, including the Philippines, Switzerland, Australia, and Central America.

Our diverse international parent and student body additionally enhances the Steiner community.

“Beginning in first grade, our students take two languages, German and Spanish,” Kaplan adds. “This continues through eighth grade, and in high school, their offerings expand to French, German and Spanish – they are required to take two languages.”

Because the Rudolf Steiner School is located in the cultural heart of the City, classes frequently visit international exhibitions at museums and cultural centers along Museum Mile.

Our Foreign Language Exchange program in 10th grade is the most unique global education program in independent schools. In the fall, a 10th grade student, who attends a Waldorf school in a foreign country, lives with a Steiner family in New York for up to four months. In the spring, the Steiner 10th grader, who hosted her foreign exchange friend, lives in her native country, and attends their Waldorf school.

“This program allows two mature and motivated students to learn and live in a foreign country for up to four months, which fosters competency and fluency in a foreign language with an immersion into a different cultural environment,” says Kaplan.

Students also enjoy a social life that is lively and warm, and cultivate artistic expression, excellent writing and public speaking through a rich academic program. Sports, community service, and trips to farms, theater, and museums enhance the curriculum, and enhance the global focus for this community.

The high school prepares students for life by cultivating artistic expression, excellent writing, public speaking and through a rich academic program. Steiner graduates pursue a path defined by academic excellence, global perspective, social and environmental conscience, and well-earned confidence.

Waldorf education inspires students to be thinkers, creators, and innovators largely in part through its approach of educating students with a global focus.

(212) 535-2130 www.steiner.edu/wmg

Beyond bilingualism FASNY was founded in 1980 with two teachers and 17 preschoolers to address the need for a truly bilingual education blending in equal parts the French and the American teaching systems.

Thirty-five years later, its 850 students representing over 50 nationalities follow a rigorous bilingual program which combines official French and best-in-class American curricula. The benefit of this education goes beyond the mastery of two languages and the broadened opportunities this brings to higher level education and career paths.

What sets FASNY students truly apart is their adaptability, their ability to formulate concepts, raise questions, study problems, play, write, or sing in two languages and within two different cultural frameworks. A FASNY student writes deductive dialectical essays in French and inductive compositions in English. She is also familiar with two different approaches to Mathematics, and to all other subject matters.

When analyzing a phenomenon or attempting to solve a problem, FASNY students learn that analytical approaches and problem-solving methods are highly influenced by culture and can vary significantly.

They understand and appreciate this intellectual diversity because they see that more than one valid point of view can be used to address the same challenge. A FASNY education expands the student’s academic, cultural, and ethical horizons.

A diverse community accepting non-French speakers FASNY offers non-French speakers two entry points into its diverse and welcoming community: in preschool and in 11th grade. From 3 to 6 years old, the double language immersion program brings children from all language backgrounds to bilingualism. In 11th grade and 12th grades, the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme welcomes non-French speakers and is uniquely tailored to blend rising bilingual FASNY students, local non-French speakers, and qualified international students. From 1st to 10th grades however, the rigorous bilingual program requires that students are fluent in French, as English as a Second Language classes are offered at every level.

Academic excellence FASNY’s students thrive in their studies after high school in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and elsewhere in Europe. Colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic recognize and seek out graduates with a FASNY education, and the school’s list of college acceptances is disproportionately skewed to the finest institutions in the world.

FASNY’s Pre-, Lower and Upper Schools are located respectively in the villages of Scarsdale, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck and are easily accessible from Manhattan and from Greenwich, CT. Accreditations: International Baccalaureate Organization, New York State Department of Education, New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), French Ministry of National Education. www.fasny.org admissions@fasny.org (914) 250-0401

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } WINSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL

WESTTOWN

New York, NY/ Whippany, NJ/ Norwalk, CT

West Chester, PA

PEOPLE DON’T ALWAYS learn in predictable ways, which is why Winston Preparatory School (WPS) is committed to reaching all kinds of learners.

Students often come to one of our campuses in the tri‐state area after struggling in traditional school settings. Many of these students, ranging from fourth to twelfth grade (and their new Transitions program young adults!), have been diagnosed with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, executive functioning difficulties, ADHD, and nonverbal learning disorders. At WPS, the faculty assesses and understands students where they are, helps them advance at a meaningful pace, and teaches them to move forward independently.

The research‐based education model used by the WPS faculty has been shown to profoundly expand the possibilities for students with learning disabilities. Providing a fundamental shift in the process of education at every level of the school organization, WPS faculty and leading educational experts have designed and implemented a model that reflects the best practices in the field, as well as research in learning, teaching, neuropsychology, and school climate. The results? Our specialized academic process typically results in more than 90 percent of WPS students being admitted to college.

WPS’s mission is to “facilitate the independence and meaningful participation of students with specific learning disorders through a Continuous Feedback System that develops skill acquisition and the Qualities of a Sustainable and Independent Learner. WPS also seeks to influence the field of education with research and implementation models that achieve these ends, in this way.” This means that the leaders and faculty at WPS are working within a model that requires educators and students to assess, understand, and design curriculum (and all aspects of the school experience) based on individualized understanding, and to continually re‐evaluate the program. This model focuses not only on skill development, but also the development of characteristics that lead to independence such as resilience, self‐ advocacy, and self‐regulation.

The science behind WPS is how we understand and help students.

To help students with learning problems we must be experts in learning and cognition. We are also compelled to be active leaders in bridging the gap between research and practice. At WPS we research so that we can understand, we understand so that we can individualize each child’s school experience, and we do so in a way that makes this school all about them. As we understand them as individuals, they begin to feel understood–and this is where the Winston Prep magic begins.

Please visit www.winstonprep.edu to learn more and join us for an upcoming Open House.

Take a look at Westtown, a day and boarding school in West Chester, PA, 30 minutes from Philadelphia. At Westtown we expect much of our students as intellectuals, care deeply for them as individuals, and provide platforms for them as inventors of their own futures.

We believe that young people and their parents deserve a school that offers academic rigor and an uncommon level of attention.

Since 1799, we remain steadfast in our commitment to develop very smart, extraordinarily prepared and deeply ethical adults ready to lead and serve. Our graduates thrive in some of the world’s most admired colleges and universities. They accomplish much and succeed in every endeavor.

At Westtown, we have a distinctive approach that prepares students differently than many other schools, which organize their curricula around high-stakes tests. Here, we place action in the center of each student’s experience. We teach our students to see themselves not as passive consumers of knowledge or culture but as active, deeply knowledgeable and confident doers. The Action-Based Education results in part from our heritage as a Quaker school. It also, however, comes from a recognition that the world has changed and that schools need to as well.

Westtown’s Global Leadership Initiative immerses students at all grade levels in an international curriculum and community.

Westtown students do not just read about other cultures; they experience them firsthand through international programming and from the direct perspectives of their classmates who hail from 18 states and 18 countries, including Nigeria and Spain. “We don’t just put kids in a dorm and expect magic,” notes John Baird, Westtown’s Head of School. “We have a residential curriculum that teaches them how to live together.”

By the time students reach the Upper School, they have the opportunity to take part in a variety of unique international travel experiences and faculty-led senior trips. Imagine exploring the wonders of France, Ghana, Israel, Palestine, Mexico, Martinique, or Spain; it’s all possible through organized travels and Senior Projects at Westtown. Ultimately, graduates of Westtown truly understand what it means to live and learn in an interconnected world.

One thing is for sure: Westtown’s approach provides opportunities to learn in a way that results in students who find their voice and use it to develop the rare confidence to take action, to declare themselves as leaders, to risk failure, and to stand up for deeply held beliefs.

For more information: Visit: www.westtown.edu Call: 610.399.7900 Email: admissions@westtown.edu

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } CHAPEL HILL – CHAUNCY HALL SCHOOL

KNOX SCHOOL

Waltham, MA

St. James, NY

At Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School, a coeducational day and boarding school, we remain dedicated to teaching the way our students learn.

Students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate thrive in our collegepreparatory curriculum where they find small class sizes, academic challenges and a tailored approach to learning necessary to be successful, innovative thinkers. Our students discover engaging classes, teachers, and peers, and actively contribute to a community that encourages participation in the arts, athletics and other extracurricular opportunities. Our curriculum challenges and engages students, while instruction tailored to individual learning styles empowers our students to achieve their potential. Our multiple intelligences approach to teaching, along with support seamlessly integrated into the classroom, creates a transformational learning experience for students.

We Teach the Way Students Learn: • An average class size of ten allows us to truly know our students • Dynamic 75-minute classes engage students in multiple ways of learning • Skills and Academic Support Program develops independent learners • Diverse population enriches the culture of our School • Co-curricular and arts programs inspire students to discover their passions • We are proud to have 100% of our students accepted into college or university.

Teaching to Students’ Strengths The CH-CH community is committed to each student’s individual success and to understanding the unique ways in which each student learns. Our approach to education embodies the knowledge that students learn differently, exhibiting various academic strengths and areas which need more improvement. This requires varied, creative methods of instruction. An attentive, experienced faculty identifies ways to encourage each student to harness his or her strengths for continued progress, while devising strategies to engage students in learning methods that suit individual skills.

CH-CH classes are both active and challenging. For example, students in a Spanish class may study a song, use its lyrics to hone speaking skills and participate in group work to examine the piece’s cultural nuances.

Then, they may create their own lyrics to the same tune, cementing their understanding of a particular set of vocabulary terms. Our layered approach to instruction provides students with meaningful interactions and a deep understanding of academic material.

Visit www.chch.org for more information.

Located at 785 Beaver St., Waltham, MA 02452 If you would like an individual campus tour and school visit, please contact the Admissions Office.

Lisa Pelrine, Director of Admissions, 781-314-0800, admissions@chch.org

The Knox School in Saint James is the North Shore of Long Island’s best-kept independent school secret, serving students in grades 6-12 and Post Graduate. We offer a comprehensive, challenging curriculum infused with the core values of Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Courage, Kindness and Scholarship. Our college preparatory program includes Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) offerings, prepares students for success at the university level, and provides them with the necessary skills to survive in our globalized 21st Century. Class sizes are small – 12 students per class is our maximum. Knox also offers an on-campus Crew Team and Equestrian Program, competitive athletic teams and co-curricular programs such as Model U.N., Student Government, National Honor Society, Visual, Performing and Fine Arts and so much more. Rich in the fine and performing arts, Knox students can sing and act in a musical and play, dance, draw, sculpt, paint, design and sew clothing and costumes, capture life in photos and display their personal talents in our Solarium Art Gallery.

What Knox does not offer is the confinement of the Common Core and the rash of testing that goes along with it. Instead, our focus is on building intentional learning communities in which our educators teach to the standards and levels of our global competitors. Our students are safe, accepted and tolerated, and the only “common” thing about our Knox environment is the commitment our entire school community has to education, success, and the advancement of each individual that makes up our diverse student body.

One-on-one college counseling begins the summer before Junior year and continues until your child decides to which college or university he or she will commit. Recent college acceptances include: Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, Brandeis University, George Washington University, Northeastern University, Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Miami, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, Rutgers University, Michigan State University, Penn State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and many more….

Call to schedule a private tour or to speak to an admissions associate about The Knox School difference. We would be happy to share our honest, professional opinion with you about your child’s education, and the best way for you as a parent to help him or her realize his or her true potential. You can reach Knox admissions at 631-686-1600 EXT. 414. Or visit www.knoxschool.org

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL

AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL

Simsbury, CT

Avon, CT

Women today are leading in every avenue of life—in business, politics, academics, athletics, the arts and sciences, entertainment, and in their communities and families.

Leadership, when practiced by women, often means something different than what traditional definitions suggest. It does not necessarily mean standing in front of a big group of people and saying, “follow me!” or setting records, or being first. It is broader and more inclusive; it is relational, contextual, and frequently transformational.

The Ethel Walker School defines leadership as the individual initiative to develop personal potential into action and performance.

Our school creates a unique environment where girls express and practice leadership in personal terms.

Whatever path a Walker’s girl chooses to forge or follow, she will discover for herself how to lead from her individual strengths. This may include serving in student government, as a team captain, or mentoring younger students; co-teaching non-core classes, taking risks in order to learn something new, and challenging conventional thinking.

She will advance beyond what she knows to what she can do with what she knows through finding and solving real-world problems.

Challenging academics, strong athletics and arts programs, and a dedication to our communities through service are the building blocks upon which she will grow intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally.

At Walker’s, every girl is known–in the classroom, on the athletic field and in the riding ring, on the stage, in the studio, and in the dorms.

With the support of caring adults and friends she will keep for life, she can explore her interests, pursue her passions, stretch beyond her comfort zone, and become her best self. This builds self-confidence and personal agency. She will graduate prepared with the knowledge, skills and experiences that assure her of options, and the ability to choose the ones that are right for her.

Research* validates what Walker’s has known since its founding in 1911: girls educated in a same-sex learning environment test higher, experience greater academic achievement, have better mathematics and computer skills, and exhibit greater civic and political engagement.

Now more than ever, the world needs women leaders in every sector and at every level of society. Walker’s girls pick their own path. We prepare them to walk it, and to lead with integrity, courage, confidence and conviction. *National Coalition for Girls Schools, The Girls’ School Advantage: By the Numbers at www.ncgs.org/GirlsSchoolAdvantage.aspx The Ethel Walker School, an All-Girls Boarding and Day School for Grades 6-12.

230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, CT 06070

Since 1927, Avon Old Farms has been a leader in preparing young men for higher education, and the world. Avon is a dynamic community of learning with a rigorous curriculum anchored in the liberal arts.

By understanding boys – and with appreciation for their sense of humor, their energy, and how they learn – we have created the kind of environment where our students are able to become their best selves.

Avon is conveniently located in the heart of the Farmington River Valley. Our founder, Theodate Pope Riddle, an accomplished American architect, created a campus with the feel of an English village on over 860 acres of Connecticut countryside. The Cotswold-inspired architecture reflects the traditional approach to education that is so successful here.

Avon’s teachers are experts in their fields who bring lessons to life and create compelling context for discussion. Creativity, innovation, and collaboration are taught by example through humor, inquiry, and debate.

Small classes mean that every voice is heard and every question answered. At Avon we understand the importance of personal connection, especially during adolescence; this is why we have held strong to the model of a faculty member who advises, teaches, mentors, and coaches our boys.

Athletics is an honored tradition at Avon and, we believe, a valuable part of a complete education. Our athletic program is one of the best in the country and we attribute our success to experienced coaches, excellent facilities, strong competition, and an emphasis on things that matter most: teamwork, determination, and sportsmanship.

Another way Avon boys come together is through the arts. Our rich and varied programs in music and the visual and performing arts provide many opportunities for boys to express themselves creatively and form meaningful connections with peers. Our students have been honored locally, regionally, and nationally for their creative accomplishments. Most impressive, however, Avon is a place where you can draw, paint, play an instrument, sing or act whether you have had years of experience or none.

As a college preparatory school, one of our goals is to identify and facilitate the right matches between Avon students and institutions of higher learning. Our boys typically begin the college counseling process during sophomore year, setting expectations and goals early so that by the time they are seniors, they are prepared to take the lead on this leg of their journey to adulthood.

Our core values of brotherhood, integrity, scholarship, and sportsmanship, are fundamental to life at Avon, and stay with our graduates for a lifetime.

Avon Old Farms School: 500 Old Farms Road, Avon, CT 06001.

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } WESTOVER SCHOOL

CHESHIRE ACADEMY

Middlebury, CT

Cheshire, CT

Westover School is large enough to offer a deep and broad academic program while small enough to be certain every girl’s voice is heard.

The School’s mission is to provide an environment that inspires the intellectual, artist, athlete, and philosopher in each student. Westover challenges young women to think independently, to embrace diversity, and to grow intellectually and spiritually. Westover encourages integrity, responsibility, and commitment to community in every student.

Westover offers a range of Signature Programs to enhance educational opportunities for students: • Manhattan School of Music Program in New York City, for talented musicians and vocalists at one of the country’s leading music schools.

• WISE (Women In Science and Engineering), for students interested in engineering or science.

• The Westover Poets Program helps students develop skills in the craft of poetry through English electives, special writing workshops, and individual work with visiting poets, who have included Billy Collins, Katha Pollitt, and Eamon Grennan.

• Global Exchange Programs provide students experiences in unique two- or three-month academic exchanges in Australia, South Africa, and Jordan; six-week language immersion exchanges in France and Spain; a three-week cultural and academic exchange in England; a two-week cultural exchange in China; or a two-week cultural immersion and service experience in Rwanda.

• Online School for Girls – as a founding member of a national consortium of all-girls schools, Westover offers online courses for students taught by consortium faculty.

• Invest In Girls, a three-year program offering students financial education workshops and one-on-one mentoring with financial professionals.

• The Sonja Osborn Museum Studies Internship with Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, through which students with an interest in art history gain practical experience working with curators and museum educators, and culminating in a final project.

Westover offers a range of fitness activities. Interscholastic teams include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, tennis, and volleyball.

Nontraditional teams include the Dance Ensemble, offering ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and contemporary dance, and the Outdoor Program, offering camping, canoeing, hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, spelunking, and trail work. Other fitness activities include aerobics, dance classes, fitness and strength training, physioball, rock climbing, snowboarding and skiing, yoga, Zumba, and physical drama (stage combat, fencing, dance).

For more information about Westover or to arrange for a visit to the School, contact Dawn Curtis, Associate Director of Admission, at 203-577-4521 or e-mail admission@westoverschool.org www.westoverschool.org

Meeting students where they are and taking them beyond where they imagined possible.

Founded in 1794, Cheshire Academy is one of the oldest boarding schools in the country. Known for its diversity, the Academy is home to students from more than 30 countries and 20 states. Admission has never been stronger, with success that can be attributed to the student-centered philosophy, strong interest in the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme, and the Roxbury Academic Support Program. To learn more about applying to Cheshire Academy, visit www.cheshireacademy.org/ learnmore Fostering Academic Success From the in-depth IB program offerings to AP courses, students have the opportunity to delve into a rigorous and challenging academic program. The ability to succeed at the Academy is enhanced by small classes (an average of 12 students), low student-teacher ratio (7:1), 1:1 iPad program bringing the latest technology to the classroom, and an advisor program. Those who need even more personal attention may benefit from the Roxbury Academic Support program, which helps students understand how they learn while developing strategies for success. With programs specifically designed for eighth grade students and postgraduate students (PG), students receive a top boarding school education at Cheshire Academy. For more information about academics, visit www.cheshireacademy.org/academics Earning Athletic Championships In athletics, the Fighting Cats have seen several victories, taking home championship titles in volleyball, football, boys basketball, and girls softball. The Academy now boasts a Tier 1 Elite Hockey Program that plays a full 2-season schedule. A record number of graduates have gone on to play collegiatelevel sports for some of the best colleges in the country. For more information about athletics at Cheshire Academy, visit www.cheshireacademy.org/athletics Exploring Artistic Expressions From painting and drawing to photography and digital imaging, there is something for everyone at Cheshire Academy. Our performing arts program regularly showcases their talent through drama productions, dance performances, and musical concerts.

A unique offering for boarding schools, Cheshire Academy’s Arts Major program helps students prepare for college-level arts while developing strong portfolios.

For more information about arts at Cheshire Academy visit, www. cheshireacademy.org/arts It’s an exciting time to join the Student-Centered School. Visit us at www.cheshireacademy.org to learn more about how you can be a part of the action!

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THE GOW SCHOOL

Byfield, MA

South Wales, NY

The oldest continuously operating boarding school in the United States. College preparatory, coed, grades 9-12, boarding and day.

From our first headmaster in 1763 who encouraged students to study aloud rather than insisting on the traditional silence in the classroom, we’ve embraced change to remain relevant. Because this isn’t just about the next four years. It’s about the promise of what can happen after that.

We’ve always wanted more for our students.

Citizen leaders Accountability, responsibility, and cooperation form an unwritten curriculum at Governor’s that has produced generations of leaders.

Our earliest graduates shaped a young nation. Today graduates continue to lead as CEOs, policymakers, engineers, entrepreneurs, physicians, teachers, scientists, and more.

An environmental focus What does innovation mean at Governor’s? Fish radio frequency tags, for starters. Our Massachusetts location four miles from the Atlantic Ocean is a testing ground for environmental stewardship and research.

A 5:1 student-faculty ratio Our faculty members are interesting, passionate people, including editors of award-winning journals, National Science Foundation grant recipients, nationally recognized artists, an Olympic rower, and a best-selling author.

All are dedicated to bringing out the best in teenagers.

Intellect We challenge each student to ponder, process, and shape the discourse in small, discussion-based classes. The academic program includes honors, advanced, and AP classes in all departments, as well as research partnerships with Harvard and MIT, demanding standards in writing and critical analysis, internships, and five languages to study.

Creativity Outstanding facilities and an excellent faculty support a wide range of arts opportunities, from innovative freshman courses to advanced study in art and architecture, film and photography, ceramics, music, drama, technical theater and dance.

Strength Governor’s athletic teams are known for their championship titles.

Our facilities rival those at small colleges, and we’re home to some of the best athletes in Massachusetts, many of whom go on to nationally ranked college teams.

A global view Governor’s invaluable global outlook inspires exchange and study abroad programs, course offerings and class activities. Motivated students from 23 states and 19 countries—two thirds boarders and one third day—form a unique synthesis of cultures in a small town setting.

Helping young people discover who they are and who they could be is what we’re all about at Governor’s.

Always has been. Always will be. Always Governor’s.

Arrange a visit: 978.465.1763 or admissions@govsacademy.org 1 Elm Street, Byfield, MA 01922. www.thegovernorsacademy.org

The Gow School is a college-prep boarding school for students, grades 7-12, with dyslexia and similar language-based learning disabilities.

Focusing on small class sizes, 3-7 students per class, and a low 4:1 student to faculty ratio, The Gow School offers a multisensory approach to teaching that enables dyslexic students to thrive.

The Gow community has a sense of belonging, of equality, and of connection born on common trials and shared triumph.

Gow has a start fast, finish strong mentality and students typically start to see progress soon after they step foot in our classrooms.

Students are often reading and writing better, enjoying school again and looking forward to what they can accomplish.

At the School’s core is a structured program designed to help students navigate the academic day and a daily schedule designed to keep students busy. Between a packed class schedule, afterschool sports, study hall and Saturday classes, there is little unprogrammed time.

The School is settled on a 120-acre campus, which gives our students plenty of room to learn and play. Boarding school life does not always allow lots of free time, but it has plenty of room for fun. It is precisely because students are so involved – playing sports, going on trips, and hanging out with each other – they get the most out of the rich residential experience.

In July, the school’s co-ed summer program is five weeks of learning and fun for ages 8-16! The Gow School Summer Program is for students who have been experiencing academic difficulties, or have been diagnosed with dyslexia or specific learning disabilities.

The Summer Program runs from the end of June to early August with morning academics, afternoon fun and games and weekend adventures! The Gow School Summer Program gives students academic tools and self-confidence they can take with them wherever they go; to the classroom and beyond.

By combining a structured program and environment with flexibility, individualization, and room for fun, Gow provides a rich school experience that is precisely what dyslexic students need to learn and to enjoy learning. gow.org 2491 Emery Rd, South Wales, NY, 14139.

Phone: 716.687.2001 Email: admissions@gow.org

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FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY

VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY

Nestled in the heart of central Virginia in a beautiful rural setting, Fork Union Military Academy is a unique sanctuary for learning and achievement. Founded in 1898, Fork Union has remained true to its mission for more than a century developing and inspiring young men in a demanding college preparatory environment, and challenging them to excel in the classroom, on the athletic fields, and in their daily lives.

Fork Union Military Academy’s rigorous admission standards, high academic expectations, and focus on achievement help outstanding young men develop, compete, and accomplish even more than they thought possible. In our safe and structured academic environment, based on Christian values, young men develop the qualities of character, self-discipline, respect, and leadership essential for success in life.

As a private school, we can structure our curriculum (such as our unique One Subject Plan for the Upper School) to meet the needs of our students. We can preserve our single-sex environment to remove social distractions that come with a coeducational school.

We can acknowledge and honor the Christian values that provide the moral compass for our daily lives.

As a boarding school, we can facilitate profound and long-lasting change in the life of a young man. Structure and discipline become the norms of his life, not merely the constraints he must put up with for the relatively few hours of his school day. Responsibility and respect for others are lessons learned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at Fork Union-not just for a few hours on weekdays.

Our success shows in the lives of our graduates, whether it is our 100% college acceptance rate, the hundreds of student-athletes who have gone on to play in college and at the professional level including two Heisman Trophy winners (Vinny Testaverde and Eddie George) and twelve NFL first-round draft picks, the more than three dozen seniors earning appointments to our nation’s top service academies in the past ten years, or well-known entrepreneurs like Kevin Plank, the founder of Under Armour.

We invite you to learn more about Fork Union Military Academy and all we have to offer boys in grades 7 through 12, as well as our oneyear postgraduate program. Visit us on the web at www.forkunion. com or call us at 800-GO-2-FUMA (800-462-3862) to learn more.

Our Admissions Director, Tripp Billingsley, is happy to answer any of your questions on his direct phone line, 434-842-4205.

Wayne, PA

Founded in 1928, Valley Forge Military Academy (VFMA) located in Wayne, Pennsylvania, is an independent, private, boardingday, college preparatory school comprised of a middle school (grades 7-8) and high school (grades 9-12). Attracting students from 24 different countries, VFMA is an international leadership institute where students have cultural interactions that prepare them to compete in today’s global society. Academy cadets are provided the building blocks to be successful students in the classroom and citizen-leaders in today’s world through strong academics and values-focused leadership training, delivered through a structured military model.

Students at VFMA are immersed in a unique educational experience centered on academic excellence, personal motivation, character development, and team building that helps them reach their academic and personal goals. Life-long friendships are forged through the shared experiences, challenges, and bonds of cadet life. The rigorous college preparatory curriculum is delivered by credentialed faculty who serve as both teachers and mentors, providing cadets with individualized attention and ensuring an environment focused on academic success.

As a result of the leadership education training and STEAM curriculum they receive, Academy cadets grow to become confident leaders who can navigate practical challenges, apply critical thinking processes, and embody classic values such as ethics, character, and honor.

Parents of Valley Forge Military Academy students note the transformational effect that the structure and rigor of the school has on their son and the relevancy of a Valley Forge Military education to their son’s future. Students choose to attend VFMA because they want to do better. Parents who choose to enroll their son at VFMA understand and value that teaching honor, discipline, structure, and integrity are the cornerstones upon which their son can develop into a knowledgeable, strong-minded, successful leader prepared for whatever path he may take in life. Cadets learn valuable skills such as time management, communication and presentation techniques, and group dynamics.

Located in the suburb of Wayne, PA, just 12 miles from Philadelphia, the Valley Forge Military Academy (VFMA) campus offers an idyllic educational environment centrally located near the vast cultural offerings of the city of Philadelphia. From the Philadelphia Art Museum to the Rodin Museum, to the Franklin Institute to the Constitution Center, Independence Hall, or Valley Forge National Park, Valley Forge Military Academy offers students the opportunity to supplement their solid educational experience within a cradle of historic, cultural, and artistic enrichment opportunities.

1001 Eagle Road, Wayne, PA. (610) 989-1200 www.vfmac.edu/academy

Fork Union, VA

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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE Roswell, NM

Known as “The West Point of the West,” New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) provides a four-year college preparatory high school and a two-year junior college. Located in Roswell, New Mexico on a 300-acre campus, NMMI offers an outstanding academic program in addition to a full complement of college courses that high school students can take for dual credit. NMMI grants High School diplomas and Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees. The Institute’s emphasis on qualities of honor, integrity, and responsibility, contributes to its unique educational philosophy.

Leadership training is provided to all cadets at the college level, through the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program, and at the high school level through the Junior ROTC program. The ROTC Program offers college cadets the opportunity to receive a commission in the U.S. Army through the 2-Year Early Commissioning Program.

Cadets may pursue commissions in the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines through the Service Academy Preparatory Program.

NMMI offers five male and three female junior college sports and eight male and five female high school sports. Our fine and performing arts programs are outstanding with programs in band, jazz band, choir, theater and art. All students are issued a laptop and we offer wireless internet across the campus. Students live in a military environment that teaches leadership, time-management and decorum. We teach respect for others and servant leadership that provides a foundation for a lifetime of success.

NMMI graduates prove successful in every field of endeavor, business, industry, public service, education, the professions, or careers in the military. Surveys of graduating classes show consistently that 95 percent of NMMI graduates go on to complete a four-year degree at outstanding schools such as Penn State, Stanford, Rice, Cornell, University of Texas, Arizona State University, University of Colorado, and the nation’s Service Academies. In fact, only 20% of our students will ever choose a military career and most, like Roger Staubach, Conrad Hilton, Paul Horgan, Owen Wilson and Sam Donaldson, excel in sports, business, letters, and media by utilizing skills honed at NMMI. Please contact the Admissions office at 1-800-421-5376 or admissions@nmmi.edu to schedule your visit. www.nmmi.edu www.nmmi.edu/summer/jlc/index.html

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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES LANDMARK COLLEGE Putney, VT

We all learn differently, but only Landmark College truly teaches differently. With our model, students are emboldened to actively manage their learning challenges and to concentrate on their strengths instead of weaknesses.

What makes Landmark College so different?

Firsts. It’s the first institution of higher education to exclusively serve students with learning differences (LD) such as dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, and gifted LD. And it’s the first choice for students with LD trying to acquire strategies, skills, and structure so they will thrive not only in their studies, but in their lives beyond college.

Onlys. It’s the only college of its kind in the Northeast, close to some of the region’s best skiing and outdoor recreation, and only two hours from Boston.

Value. With a 6-to-1 student-faculty ratio, Landmark College students receive 50 percent more hours of direct classroom instruction than at other institutions. And they get significantly more academic and social support services.

Outcomes. Nine out of 10 students who earn a two-year degree at Landmark College go on to enroll in a four-year degree program, at Landmark College or elsewhere, and 66 percent earn a bachelor’s degree – a substantially higher rate than their peers without an LD. At the center of the Landmark College experience is extraordinary learning that happens in and out of the classroom. Integrated learning strategies are part of every student’s daily interactions with faculty, academic advisors, and coaches. Students achieve a personal understanding of their strengths and challenges – and how to overcome the latter.

Students at Landmark College, like most college students, form lifelong friendships through extracurricular activities: sports such as baseball, soccer, basketball, softball, and cross country, to name a few; clubs devoted to gaming, chess, music, skiing and snowboarding, a capella, and many others; study abroad to many international locations, including Japan, Ireland, Chile, the Netherlands and on the high seas.

Landmark College offers bachelor’s degrees in computer science, studio art, and liberal studies; and associate degrees in life sciences, computer science, business, and liberal studies.

World-renowned economist Paul McCulley, whose son Jonathan is a Landmark College graduate, in 2014 established the Morgan le Fay Center for Advances in Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship Education at the College. “I am an evangelist for the wonder-working power of Landmark College in the lives of those challenged with LD,” McCulley said.

For additional information: call: 1-802-387-6718 email: admissions@landmark.edu or visit www.landmark.edu

{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } CLARK UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON

Worcester, MA

Charleston, S.C.

The college that changes lives – Founded in 1887, Clark is committed to scholarship and inquiry that addresses social and human imperatives on a global basis. Located in the heart of New England— Worcester, Massachusetts—Clark enrolls over 2,300 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students and is featured in Loren Pope’s book, “Colleges That Change Lives.” Clark students are passionate about ideas, causes and events beyond themselves; embrace issues and take action; and approach life with open minds and a global perspective.

Transformative force in higher education – Clark is also emerging as a leader in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), Clark’s pioneering model of education, combines life-changing world and workplace experiences with a robust liberal arts curriculum. Through LEEP, you will confront complex problems, collaborate with faculty, learn directly from industry experts, and explore topics of global consequence.

Internationally recognized for academics, entrepreneurship, and value – Recent rankings that acknowledge Clark’s growing reputation include U.S. News & World Report # 75 in Best National Universities, Forbes # 16 in America’s Most Entrepreneurial Universities, Princeton Review #3 among Best Schools Making an Impact, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine #24 in Best Values in Private Colleges.

A dynamic community with global insight – You’ll be known by name and face as the Clark student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1 and the average class size is 21 students. With approximately 600 international students, faculty members and scholars from over 90 countries, you will also encounter a variety of cultures, traditions, religions, political ideologies and people in the community. Some of the most popular majors at Clark are Psychology, Political Science, Biology, Business Management, Geography, International Development and Social Change, and Communication and Culture.

Fifth-year tuition-free accelerated B.A./Master’s Degree program – With Clark’s excellent graduate programs and research institutes, the University can offer you a unique cost-saving opportunity. If you work hard and meet the eligibility requirements, you can earn an accelerated bachelor’s and master’s degree from one of 14 different programs with the fifth-year of tuition free.

Make a difference in a world hungry for change – At Clark, you will develop creativity, adaptability, resilience, persistence, and more, all of which enable you to translate your passions and studies into a remarkable career and a purposeful, accomplished life. You will have the opportunity to graduate with the skills employers demand and the world needs, prepared to live the University’s motto: “Challenge convention. Change our world.”

Clark University: 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA. 800/462-5275 or 508/793-7431 admissions@clarku.edu; clarku.edu/explore

More than a place, or a state of mind, the College of Charleston represents an exceptional experience for our students. It means individual growth, choices, adventure, achievement, curiosity, flexibility, spirit and community. If you want a college where every opportunity you can imagine will be available to you – look no further. At the College of Charleston, you really can have it all.

See for yourself The College of Charleston campus is a curious blend of the old and historic with the new and modern. Take Randolph Hall, for example.

Originally built around 1828, it has survived earthquakes, wars and the ravages of time, and remains to this day the centerpiece of campus. By contrast, the Beatty Center – a four-story, glass-and-steel building in the design of a Charleston single house – is a mere two blocks away.

The campus is surrounded on all sides by the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of Charleston, which Fast Company magazine labeled “Silicon Harbor” due to the growing number of tech startups here in recent years.

We invite you to spend some time in Charleston. Sign up for a campus tour and information session (go.cofc.edu/campusvisit). Come to an open house. Use a Multicultural Overnight Visit Experience (M.O.V.E.) to test-drive the College. Or, go to our YouTube channel (go.cofc.edu/ youtube) and explore what the College has to offer.

Location, location, location Charleston has long been a top destination for tourists. Now it’s becoming one of the most dynamic cities for businesses, too.

In the last several years, more than 250 tech startups – including Bibliolabs, PeopleMatter, BoomTown and Avista Solutions – have chosen Charleston as the place to be. And larger firms are invested here as well – think Boeing, Google and Blackbaud. With a thriving arts community, a booming tourist scene and tremendous growth in biomedicine, this city has become the perfect living-learning laboratory for our students – whether they’re studying computer science, public health, theatre, business or marine biology.

Our location, in the heart of the city, makes it easy for students to add internships to their résumés. The Medical University of South Carolina is just blocks away. A busy international port is just down the street. One of the country’s hottest hospitality scenes is happening all around. Add the city’s history and international flavor to all of that, and you can see why the College of Charleston is the home of boundless opportunities.

Contact: Office of Admissions admissions@cofc.edu 843.953.5670

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SIX WEEKS MON–THU | JULY 5–AUG 11 | 9:30-3:30 OPEN TO HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORES AND JUNIORS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN THE GREATER NYC AREA WE ARE LOOKING FOR HIGHLY MOTIVATED STUDENTS WHO HAVE A PASSION FOR LEARNING AND THE STEM FIELDS

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The Albert Nerken School of Engineering at The Cooper Union has been preparing high school students to pursue undergraduate careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields for over 25 years. The Summer STEM Program is an intensive experience that immerses students in hands-on engineering design and problem-solving, thereby placing them on the right track for careers in technological innovation. Students work closely with Cooper Union faculty on projects ranging broadly from robotics, digital fabrication, computer programming and app development to biomedical and genetic engineering, improved urban infrastructure and even race car design.

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Summer Pre-College Program at Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY Try college on before taking college on How can you anticipate what you haven’t yet experienced? Skidmore’s prestigious Pre-College Program in the Liberal and Studio Arts has been preparing talented high school students for college success for more than forty years. High-achieving sophomores, juniors, and seniors from across the country and around the world travel to our Saratoga Springs campus each summer to take part in Skidmore’s five-week Pre-College Program. Students engage in college-level study in the liberal and studio arts amid a beautiful upstate New York campus setting.

or one of each. Choose a class in an area where your strengths lie, or delve into an unexplored subject to challenge your perceptions and discover new fields of knowledge.

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Prepare for college success

At Skidmore, high school students can imagine their futures while living together, cultivating new friendships, and discovering the right balance between work and fun.

A carefully selected and trained residential staff lives with Pre-College students in their own private residence hall. The residential life program, designed to support and complement academic and artistic endeavors, ensures that students’ social lives are every bit as exhilarating as their intellectual lives.

In Skidmore’s Pre-College Program, high school students earn college credit while studying alongside college students. They work with Skidmore’s nationally recognized faculty and visiting artists and enjoy access to the College’s state-of-the-art facilities and resources. Do your interests range from math to studio art, psychology to English, economics to religion? Skidmore’s unique curriculum allows students to take either two liberal arts courses, two studio art courses,

Skidmore College is a highly selective, independent liberal arts college known for outstanding academics, a rich co-curricular life, and its historic resort town setting.

On Skidmore’s lively summer campus Pre-College students not only learn together with high school peers and college students, but have the chance to meet visiting students and participants from other programs as well. They are invited to take active part in the special workshops, visiting artist lectures,

and gallery talks sponsored by Skidmore’s Summer Studio Art Program and the nightly readings by renowned writers of the New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Skidmore’s summer campus hosts many other concerts, lectures, events, and weekend activities, and just off campus is downtown Saratoga Springs’ dynamic cultural and arts scene.

Find out for yourself why Skidmore Pre-College alumni describe the program as challenging, fun, enlightening, life-changing, mind-altering, motivational, experimental, adventurous, to name just a few. Come spend July with us and discover your future.

Skidmore Pre-College Program, Saratoga Springs, NY skidmore.edu/precollege

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Here, professors who are world-class scholars offer personal attention in the classroom to college-bound girls while encouraging their interests and passions and helping them develop new academic skills.

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in Rome

Just off the Via Appia southeast of Rome, the 12-acre University of Dallas campus rests in the beautiful foothills where ancient Rome got its start and where Romans and popes take their summer holiday.

Participants of our programs earn college credit and emerge with skills essential for the college classroom while forming the longlasting friendships that inevitably develop in a learning community.

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My Latin improved as much in three weeks as it did in a whole year of taking AP Latin.”

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Each summer, University of Dallas professors lead high school students through the most compelling works of Shakespeare’s corpus in the midst of his most enchanting and breathtaking Italian settings during our “Shakespeare in Italy” program. History and drama intersect at every site, resulting in a greater awareness of our Western heritage and a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s art.

This trip helped me grow and realize there is so much more to the world than I ever knew.”

– Megan Mickley, Shakespeare in Italy 2015

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Inspired scholars of Latin will find their place in an equally engaging program, “Latin in Rome,” where unlike most study abroad programs, your classroom is Rome. Faculty guides lead you on an extended trip to the Bay of Naples to see Cicero’s birthplace, Pompeii, the Cave of the Sibyl and more, deepening your understanding of the Latin language and the Romans who spoke it.

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Clark University alumnus Matt Goldman ’83, M.B.A. ’84, motivates himself with three words:

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MAKE IDEAS REAL. In 1987 that simple mission statement drove him to co-found Blue Man Group, whose raucous and wry stagecraft turned the troupe’s signature art into a cultural touchstone.

The same spirit for inventive enterprise that drives Matt Goldman recently earned Clark a #16 ranking on Forbes magazine’s list of the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities.

Matt and his partners have since turned their energies to Blue School, the Manhattan elementary and middle school he co-founded in 2007.

The school reimagines education in a changing world by creating communities of learners “who use courageous and innovative thinking to build a harmonious and sustainable world.”

Matt exemplifies the Clark University motto, “Challenge Convention.

Change Our World,” which inspires all Clarkies to make ideas real.

Here, we regard the status quo and say, “We can do better.” Can you?

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Summer Learning Opportunities For Academic Success Helping high school and college students better understand their personal learning styles, develop effective learning strategies, and prepare for academic success.

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High School Summer Program July 10 — 30

Transition to College Program Dates to be announced 10-Day Transition to College Workshop* Dates to be announced

Summer Session for Visiting College Students June 26 — July 30

* Offered at Winston Preparatory School, New York City

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Optional Social Pragmatics Track July 8 — 30

Intensive Workshop for Success in College* Aug. 1 – 5

Summer scholarships available. To learn more, call 802-387-6718 or visit

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RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

2016 SUMMER PROGRAMS Experience RISD’s premier art and design education, unique studios and award-winning faculty, as well as historic Providence’s vibrant summer arts and culture scene.

High School Students Pre-College: Get ready for 6 weeks that will stay with you for the rest of your life.

College Students and Adults (credit) Summer Studies Art + Design Courses Create your own extraordinary experience at Rhode Island School of Design.

RISD: Global Summer Programs Become a creative agent for a changing world. Where will RISD take you this summer?

Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies Delve into a broad range of graphic design topics, offered in a series of concentrated two-week courses.

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Textiles Summer Institute Access RISD’s renowned textiles studios and faculty.

Enrich your summer at Columbia.

Hundreds of courses.

Certificates in business, international relations, and human rights.

Preparation for graduate studies.

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Summer Session 2016 | Session I: May 31–June 30 | Session II: July 5–August 4

Fordham for High School Students Pre-College Program: July 5–August 4, 2016 | Manhattan and Bronx Campuses

Make the most of the summer before your senior year: • • •

Earn college credit.

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SUMMER CAMP

California’s Premier Sports Camp For Young Athletes

FullSport Academy is a residential coed summer camp located in Santa Barbara, CA, welcoming Youth ages 9-16.

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The Winston Preparatory School does not discriminate against applicants and students on the basis of race, color or national or ethnic origin.

This Is My Future If you are looking for scholarly readiness and a successful future career, you have come to the right place. NMMI is a four year high school and two year junior college facility where students can earn your high school diploma or an Associate of Science (AS) or Associate of Arts (AA) degree in college here before moving on to a four year university.

The centerpiece of NMMI is the Corps of Cadets, comprised of male and female students. The cadets themselves hold the responsibility of leading units within the Corps. This focus on leadership development sets New Mexico Military Institute apart from other educational institutions, public and private, and allows NMMI cadets to grow physically, mentally, emotionally and ethically.

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Each summer NMMI hosts students on our campus for a variety of camps and programs. Our beautiful campus is host to students from around the world who join us for the summer programs.

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Valley Forge Military Academy & College A private international leadership institution, comprised of a middle school, preparatory high school, and college, located in Wayne, PA, 12 miles from Philadelphia. Students are immersed in a unique educational experience centered on academic excellence, personal motivation, and character that helps them reach their academic potential.

Small class sizes, specialized instruction, and dedicated faculty provide an enriching educational experience that imbues students with character traits and the skills to succeed.

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Make Your Summer Matter The leader in innovative high school summer abroad programs since 1932

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The oldest continuously operating boarding school in the United States. An environmental testing ground just off the Atlantic coast, home to highpowered research partnerships, and innovative teaching. An entrepreneurial energy and a global view, with motivated students from the Boston area, throughout the U.S., and around the globe.

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Fun midday program with beach outings, indoor/outdoor games, field trips, arts & crafts, computers, music and more!

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On your time, at your pace, for fun or for credit.

Taught just for you one-to-one - always!

For more information about summer offerings visit: FusionSummer.com Join us for a summer semester! Fusion Academy is an accredited school for grades 6 through 12. We provide a comprehensive learning solution for students of all ages, on their terms, fit to their schedule, and crafted to support their unique learning style.

We offer academic tutoring, enrichment, and classes for credit - all just one teacher and one student per classroom.

Why choose Fusion for summer school? Our summer classes are the epitome of flexibility. Sleep in. Go on vacation. Start anytime. Finish early. It’s up to you. We also have true one-to-one classrooms. That’s right - just one teacher and one student always. Interested in some cool electives for fun or for credit? We offer professional recording arts, graphic design and art, and yoga to name a few.

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Fusion Lincoln Center 212.362.1014 FusionLincolnCenter.com

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Fusion Westchester I love the one-to-one learning.

They can slow down or speed up to adjust to the pace of the student. It’s so tailored to them and their needs. You can’t get that anywhere else.”

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Avon Old Farms believes strongly in the benefits of a single-sex education and understands the unique learning styles of young men. A structured academic day includes regular all-school meetings, family-style meals, athletic practices, and quiet evening study hours. Core values such as brotherhood, integrity, scholarship, and sportsmanship are emphasized and modeled by a caring and committed faculty who also serve as coaches, dormitory masters, counselors, valued mentors, and friends.

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Avon Old Farms is located 15 minutes northwest of Hartford, offering a magnificent campus with outstanding facilities.

QUICK FACTS: Established: 1927 Enrollment: 405 boys States/Countries Represented: 22/22 Average Class Size: 12 Student-Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Campus Size: 860+ wooded acres Interscholastic Sports: 15

To schedule an interview, please call us at 800-464-2866, or email us at admissions@avonoldfarms.com 500 Old Farms Road, Avon, Connecticut 06001

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Join Hopkins for a summer of learning, discovery and fun.

Summer sessions at Hopkins are open to everyone.

In age-appropriate, six-week sessions, students in grades 3-12 engage in amazing learning

2016 Summer Sessions at Hopkins: June 27 – August 5

experiences on the Hopkins campus that offer the chance to make big leaps forward. Areas of study include core academic subjects, computer science, sports, and study skills. See what a summer at Hopkins can do for your student.

203.397.1001 • New Haven, CT • hopkins.edu/summerschool

A coed, college preparatory day school for grades 7-12

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• Advanced Placement (AP) Courses • Competitive College Acceptance • Equestrian, Crew & Fencing Programs • Athletics for All • Visual and Performing Arts • Easily Accessible From the LIRR • 5 and 7 Day Boarding Available

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Westover, a leading college-preparatory school, engages young women in a powerful college-prep foundation. From that firm foundation, students build up and out, using our broad and diverse curriculum as building blocks.

Students choose from compelling interdisciplinary electives and dive into Signature Programs in music, science, engineering, finance, global exchanges, and more.

For more information or to schedule a visit, please call the Office of Admission at 203.577.4521, or visit westoverschool.org

Summer Programs: Empowering Young Women in Engineering, Finance, & Politics for Girls Entering Grades 7, 8, & 9 Two sessions: July 10-15 and July 17-22.

For more information about Westover’s Summer Programs, e-mail Director Jennifer Pelletier at summerprograms@westoverschool.org or call 203.758.2423.

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Gow is a college preparatory, boarding and day school, grades 7-12, for students with dyslexia and related language based learning disabilities.

Gow provides the right environment and the right tools for dyslexic students to rethink the learning process and reinvent themselves.

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We host open house events in multiple locations in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Visit our website for details and dates.

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Donald Trump, Through the Ages.

The ancestry of Donald Trump stretches back to the Ancient World. Listen, as several of Trump’s forebears recount some of the most famous moments in history.

THE DEATH OF JULIUS CAESAR

THE THIRD CRUSADE

So this is, maybe, a week after the Ides of March. I’m in Rome. I got a new coliseum there. Great coliseum. I build a lot them.

Make a lot of money. Very successful.

So I’m in Rome. And Brutus and his cabal ask me to say a few words about Caesar.

Really, begging me to say something about him. And Brutus is an honorable guy. So, I’m like, “Sure. Whatever.”

But then right before my speech, Brutus comes up to me — he’s real nervous, Brutus — and he says, “Whatever you do in your speech, don’t blame me for Caesar’s death.”

I think, “That’s odd.” But, whatever. Brutus is an honorable guy.

So I deliver this speech. Great speech.

Tremendous speech. It’s about Caesar.

He’s dead. Lot of emotions. Really brings down the house. I get rave reviews for the speech. Rave reviews. Everybody loves it.

But then, weeks later, the media is saying I said these things that I never said. Awful things.

I’ll give you an example: The New Rome Times, which is losing money left and right.

Unreadable. Total trash. Hates the empire.

But the New Rome Times says that I came to praise Caesar, which is totally false.

What I said was — and this is a direct quote — “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” Not to praise him. How they get the exact opposite out of that, I don’t know.

But that’s the media for you.

So, I tell the Knights Templar, “Richard the Lionheart? Please. Should be called Richard the Lazy Bastard. Seriously. He had one thing to do. One thing. Capture Jerusalem.

What’s he do? Makes peace with Saladin.”

I ask Saladin about that, too. Sal’s a friend.

I say, “Sal, what the hell happened?” He says, “Your guy’s no good. Can’t negotiate. Awful negotiator.”

Never would have happened if I led the Third Crusade. I know negotiators. If they ever invent the printing press, I plan on writing a book on it.

Hell, I know this one guy — awful guy, terrible human being — but he knows how to negotiate.

Genghis Khan. Horrible human being. Great negotiator. I bring him in; Jerusalem is taken in two days. Tops.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

I would have people come up to me all the time and say, “Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, you should lead our troops. You should have lead.” And I should have, because I would have ended the war, Day One. I would have gone up to King George III, whom I know. I would have said, “Georgie, we’re leaving.”

He’d cry, he’d beg, he’d try to convince us to stay. I’d say, “No, no, no. Here’s the way it works: We leave, you get nothing, that’s the deal” And then I’d turn to the French, and I’d say, “And you … Thanks for the help.

Now give us a statue. A woman. But not an ugly one.”

Papers would be signed the next morning.

*reprinted from Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency John Flowers is a writer and TV producer living in New York City.

His work has appeared online for The New Yorker and McSweeney’s.

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THE TITANIC

So they have this board of inquiry. They ask me to appear. They beg. Plead. Say I’m the only one who can make sense of this tragedy.

I show up. I don’t know what I can do, but I show up. They ask what I think happened.

Everyone is saying, “The ship hit the iceberg, the ship hit the iceberg.” I tell them straight.

I say, “No, that’s not what happened.” I say, “The iceberg attacked that ship.”

People are stunned. They never heard anyone say this before. They start clapping, start calling my name, they love me. They love how I tell the truth. I’m the only one who tells the truth.

I say, “Look, I know icebergs. Know a lot about them. No one knows more about icebergs than me. No one. Icebergs attacked that ship, because the icebergs are at war with us.”

Makes total sense. But these guys. These guys on this board. Bums. They look at me.

They say, “Whaddya mean, ‘attacked’? An iceberg can’t attack a ship.”

I say, “Listen, you idiots.” I call them idiots.

They’re politicians. I give them money. I call them anything I want. I say, “Listen, you idiots. The icebergs attacked us because they think we’re weak. We’re not weak, but they think we’re weak.”

They look at me. Dumbfounded. I say, “If I were president, I would beat these icebergs.”

Because I beat icebergs all the time. All the time. I’m the icebergs’ biggest enemy, and they know this. “I would build a wall. And that wall would keep out the icebergs. And you can believe that, because nobody builds a better wall than me. Nobody.”

By now, people are clapping, hollering, saying I should run for president. I didn’t.

Thought about it. Too many interests. Lotta business interests. Make a lot of money. But if I had to run, I can promise you this, I would be the greatest iceberg president of all time. All time.

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