Thursday, August 11, 2011

Last Camp Cornelia Swim: August 16th @ 6pm









Due to the failure of many parents not sending the camp's administrator their tuition checks on time, (and you know who you are!) Camp Cornelia's Last Swim will coincide with the next City Stories: Stoops to Nuts storytelling show on Tuesday, Aug. 16 @ 6pm @ Cornelia Street Cafe. While you swim you'll hear great tellers and songsmiths, The Amygdaloids, Lindsey Gentile, Rachel Pertile Goldstein, Jed Parrish, Thomas Pryor and Andy Ross. It will change your life. I don't know how we do it, but we do. The Cafe requests $7 admission to cover their expenses then they turn around and give you a free drink, a swell deal.

Cornelia Street Café, @ 29 Cornelia St. between W. 4th St. & Bleecker St.

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Further Camp News:

Our Town newspaper published my story, “Sentimental Journey on a Hot Summer Night,” today.

An excerpt's below, click link above if you'd like to read the whole tale.

Sadly, during his youth my father’s emotional development was stunted. In 1945, hanging over the mezzanine at the Paramount Theatre, Dad swayed dreamily side-to-side listening to the Artie Shaw Orchestra. In mid swoon, while admiring his new suit, Dad flipped over the railing landing head first on an usher flirting with a floozy in the orchestra’s tenth row. Luckily, neither was killed. Both bleeding, they were taken to Polyclinic Hospital for stitches and x-rays. Dad begged the theatre’s manager for a rain check as the medics led him through the lobby. Dad sustained permanent injury that became apparent as the years unfolded. He no longer could make a decision or form an opinion that’s basis did not derive from something that happened in 1945 or before.

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