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I Love One Just Like the Other

May 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One, two, three, four…how do I love one more than another?

Each so different, each so special!

One does art, one does sports, one sews a dress, the other music
The next day they trade and we start all over again!

A flower, a kiss, a hug and a fight all in a day makes me just say
I love one just like the other!

Folding the clothes and cleaning the dishes, picking up toys
What belongs to whom? And we start all over again!

A secret, a song, a story to tell it’s all the same…
Each a gift to me…one, two, three, four…
How can I love one more than another?

Change a diaper, change an opinion, change for milk!
I’m coming and going and I wouldn’t have it any other way!
If I can say it one way I’d say…

One, two, three, four…how do I love one more than another?
Each so different, each so special!

One does art, one does sports, one sews a dress, the other music
The next day they trade and we start all over again!

A flower, a kiss, a hug and a fight all in a day makes me just say
I love one just like the other!

 

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5 Alroy Road
South Weymouth, MA 02190
1-781-335-8904
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Love Song To My Child by Carol M. Kimball

May 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This little song is a love song to my child…

Warm and tender heart…
Smiles to fill my heart…

When I care for you, you cure me
Of all the ills in the world, you lift me
And when I go to sleep at night
I pray you’ll find your way…

And when I had you, I wanted you
And when I cared for you I loved you
And when you smile at me I glow
Because I know you love me too…

When you grow to be on your own
Please keep me in your heart, that little spark
Who always loved you…was me

La, La, Love song…
La, La, Love song to my child…

Be who you are
Stand in the dark and be brave
Hold your head up high
Look to the sky
And know I love you…

When you cared for me I loved you
When you smiled at me I glow
I knew you love me too…

La, La, Love song…
La, La, Love song to my child…
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South Weymouth, MA 02190
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MOTHERHOOD AND STRUGGLE

May 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I’m a woman YES!
I’m a mother now – different – you just hav’to know…
Each is a struggle and a way of life
Each is – different – you just hav’to know

MY feelings are different than yours and yours and yours and yours…
Because I’m different than you!
I’m wrapped in my own struggle to be me…
You can’t tell me how to feel – it isn’t like that
Born from me, someone I wanted to be – a mother
Born from me, someone I wanted to be – a mother

I’m separate from a man YES!
I’m your lover NOT your mother!
You talk about being a father – BE ONE!
Be a man – you just hav’to know…
Each is a struggle and a way of life
Each is – different – you just hav’to know

My hips, my lips, my TITS!
My body NOT yours!
I’m separate from a man YES!
I’m a different woman now – I’ll never go back
I can’t go back

I tried and tried but I can’t let myself be…
I beat myself up inside and OUT!
Each is a struggle and a way of life
Each is – different – you just hav’to know!

I’m a woman YES!
I’m a mother now – different – you just hav’to know…
Each is a struggle and a way of life
Each is – different – you just hav’to know

I’m separate from a man YES!
I’m your lover NOT your mother!
You talk about being a father – BE ONE!
Be a man – you just hav’to know…
Each is a struggle and a way of life
Each is – different – you just hav’to know

I’m a woman YES!
I’m a mother now – different – you just hav’to know…
Each is a struggle and a way of life
Each is – different – you just hav’to know!

You just hav’to know – each is different – you just hav’to know…

by Carol M. Kimball

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A Mother Gone Too Soon: Michelle

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My daughter Jennifer has a very dear friend Meggie. They met in kindergarten and wanted to be together every day and slept over each other’s houses on weekends. I would find them sleeping side by side; two little girls with soft brown freckles and blonde hair all tangled together. Sometimes Meggie’s sister, Katie would also want to hang out and sleep over but mostly it was Jennifer and Meggie. Anyone might have mistaken Jennifer and Meggie for twins. They would often giggle in silence and seem to understand each other’s thoughts. Soon I was comparing notes with Meggie’s mother and we loved to talk about how close they were. We would have coffee and talk about our children, our husbands, and our interests. Sometimes we would talk about getting our husbands together or sharing books on art and music. I knew she was interested in making sure her girls kept to their violin lessons but I had no idea she was studying at the North Bennett School on how to make violins or that she was creating a violin workshop in a shed behind her house until she had a graduation party. Soon she was proudly showing off her beautiful temperature and moisture controlled violin studio. She made violins for her daughters. Jennifer loved the blue violin Michelle made her Meggie and Michelle said she would make another blue violin for Jennifer if I painted a family portrait.

There was much Michelle kept to herself and we each were busy enough with our own lives and other children and each summer we would stay on Cape Cod, they would vacation on Nantucket. In the summer of 2005 Jennifer went to stay for a week with Meggie’s family on Nantucket at Meggie’s grandparent’s summer house and except for a few tearful phone calls of homesickness; Jennifer did enjoy time with Meggie and her family.
When school started in September of 2005 life changed for Meggie and Jennifer because Michelle decided to home-school her children. They did a lot of traveling to Disney, Paris, and Washington D.C. but Jennifer and Meggie always found time to hang out and I would see Michelle at various events. In Paris an artist drew portraits of Michelle and her daughters so I never had the opportunity to do a family portrait and Jennifer didn’t get her blue violin. I met Michelle’s husband Michael and her mother Peggy at a window painting event the girls were doing for Halloween. Michelle brought her girls to our church fair and we had lunch together. We again talked of getting our husbands together for dinner and going to a local wine tasting event but my schedule was already full. I told her we had years to hang out together to talk of my art and her music because of our daughter’s unwavering friendship.
I had invited Michelle to a Christmas luncheon with my church ladies but she didn’t show up. I figured she was busy and forgot. I called but she didn’t answer the phone. After Christmas I called and got Michelle to answer the phone. She was in panic. She told me she had a big problem. She had gotten dizzy at a family party and later drove herself to the hospital. They sent her home. Finally she had met with a doctor in Boston and they found a brain tumor. Michelle wanted Meggie and Jennifer to get together and Katie would also come over. Michelle and her family were positive Michelle would beat the cancer but I knew Michelle would want her children around. They decide to take a biopsy to find out what specific form of cancer Michelle had. For a while Michelle stayed in her old bedroom at her parent’s house. I would visit and we would talk. I told Michelle to write letters now to her children and for Michael to video herself with her children. The elementary school teachers and parents organized groceries and pot luck meals for the Abban family and I would pick them up and deliver the packages. The school principle paid for a cleaning woman to visit each week. Others gave gift cards for the family. Peggy would bring Meggie over to play with Jennifer. Michelle’s husband would drop off Meggie and Katie to visit with Jennifer or asked me to care for his daughters while he worked. Michelle asked me to teach Meggie art and gave keys to her violin studio to her daughter Katie so she would someday take over making violins.
When Michelle decided to go home, her husband Michael moved out the dining room furniture while I fixed up the room for Michelle’s new first floor bedroom buying things to decorate and make Michelle comfortable. Another neighborhood friend of Michelle’s, Pat helped get things ready for Michelle to come home to her family. With the help of Meggie, Katie, and my daughter Jennifer, we pulled plywood planks and built a wheelchair ramp for Michelle. When Michelle came home to her husband and her girls, her mother Peggy took down and changed much of what I had decorated but I understood her motherly instincts.
Michelle’s mother Peggy asked me to start a fundraising champagne to raise money for Michelle’s three girls to continue their violin lessons and maybe enough for college. I said it was first about Michelle to make sure she’s comfortable maybe for personal care or a more permanent ramp. But Peggy wanted the money for the girls and told me she would take care of Michelle. I took on the challenge and wrote to newspapers about Michelle and her family. Before any money was collected I opened a bank account with Michelle’s husband Michael but this angered Peggy to no end. She demanded I stay away and Michael close out the account. Money hadn’t started to come in yet and the only money in the account was my own money I used to open the account. Michelle called me in tears so upset her mother was upset but I told her not to worry, this wasn’t the time to stress about anything, this was the time for love and peace and faith. Michelle said the steroids drove her crazy, made her paranoid, and kept her so weak and tired. Peggy later came to my house to apologize as Meggie played with Jennifer.
The local newspaper did a big story about Michelle and her daughters and they collected a lot of money. Others organized a fundraising walk for Abban’s Angel’s. In the summer of 2006 my friend Michelle Abban was in her final stages of life as her brain tumor could not be taken or affected from chemo therapy or radiation treatments. She decided to return to Nantucket to stay with her parents and be surrounded by her children. I found a card and wrote her some poems. After addressing the envelope and putting a stamp on it I thought it got mailed. It was the end of August and Michael told me Michelle had passed away. He asked me to write a eulogy for Michelle.
I brought Jennifer to Michelle’s wake and later her funeral as Peggy asked that Jennifer sit with Meggie and the family. I gave my eulogy as others did and Michelle’s oldest daughter played her violin. I didn’t cry; Michelle couldn’t be saved, she wasn’t herself, she was gone.
For three more years Meggie and Katie stayed home with some home-school concepts I didn’t understand and every day at 3:15 they would call and ask for Jennifer as she got off her bus. Although the Abban girls did not participate in organized sports, they would find time together at my house or I would drop Jennifer off at their house. I ran a youth group at our church and encouraged them to participate but that didn’t last. Michael made a nice home for them and they were happy, although sheltered. They would visit us on the Cape and I knew the girls were ready to return to public school and their friends.
Soon new administration at the high school and the superintendent demanded proof of school work from Meggie and Katie which they couldn’t show and the Abban girls were told to return to public school. Meggie started high school with Jennifer and asked Jennifer to help her shop for school clothes, after all, she said, she hadn’t been to school for four years. Katie started to drive and Meggie found more friends to share her time as Jennifer joined the high school soccer, track, and tennis team and took honors classes. I’m sure Meggie and Katie struggled with school work unfamiliar to them but I know they are happy. I don’t think they practice their violin lessons as Michelle would have wanted. I don’t know what shape the violin workshop studio is sitting in or if Michael kept the temperature or moisture control systems running. I don’t think they even play their violins in the school music program. They still don’t play any sports like Jennifer but they practice cheerleading, have friends, learn more academics, and call Jennifer every once in a while and that’s ok. Jennifer and Meggie, Katie too will always be special friends.
Remember when I mentioned sending a card and some poems to Michelle in the summer of 2006? I had imagined Michelle’s mother Peggy opened the letter on Nantucket and read the words to Michelle as she sat in a beach chair watching her girls play on the beach. I had hoped Michelle would have found love, comfort, and peace in my words. But that never happened. A package came in the mail for me. It was from my sister-in-law; and here is what she wrote: 4/25/2010 “ Hi Carol – I had mom’s car detailed and found this note from 2006 in the pouch behind the driver’s seat (along w/ a couple of bills that were never paid) If you never heard back from this person – now you know – Hope all is well. Love, Deb.” Enclosed was the envelope addressed to Michelle Abban at her mother’s Nantucket address with my return Cape Cod address. It was the last card I tried to send Michelle as she lay unable to speak in her parent’s Nantucket home. The card’s words read, “You are awesome – totally, incredibly, unbelievably amazing – and you deserve one of those huge trophies with a ginormous gold person standing on top of a big wooden block that has an engraved gold plaque that says: You – Most Awesome Person Ever.” And I wrote these words;
Michelle,

It’s ok to be
Brave and afraid

It’s ok to be
Happy and sad

It’s ok to
Laugh and scream

It’s ok to
Come and to go
It’s ok to ask God
To hold you in his arms

It’s ok

Love from Carol

Inside the card were three other poems I had forgotten about.

*
Music comes from
A special place

You can’t touch it
It touches you

We hold the things
That make the music

A violin, a flute,
A child who sings

We try to capture
The notes and frame
The song but it’s
Music in our hearts

Music comes from
A special place

*
A soul is a light
A light is energy
Energy never stops

A mother brings light
Into the world
A friend brings energy

Long after we’re gone
Our energy never stops

Love the soul, the light
And the energy in you

*
We are never gone
We are never forgotten
We remain in love
And we are always loved

*

I was sad Michelle never got my poems but there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe I’ll give the package to Meggie, or have Jennifer give Meggie the package. Or maybe I’ll give it all to Michelle’s mother because I think she would most understand and it was Peggy I had hoped to read the poems to Michelle in the first place. So that is what I plan to do for love, peace, and comfort.
By Carol M. Kimball

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Paragon Fine Art Festivals

May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Paragon Fine Art Festivals

The fall of 2012 and the 2013 show year ushers in the consummation of the Paragon Fine Art Festivals national show schedule. This schedule we have created represents the culmination of nearly four years of market research and negotiations. It will include exciting new markets in regions of the country that have remained strong in the national recession, being sustained by amazing wealth and powerful demographics

 

Below are the new venues being added to the Paragon 2013 show lineup. These are markets with proven histories. Each will provide you, the artist, the potential to tap into new markets that have either been unavailable to you in the past or where you have been unable to return and develop your existing client base.

Paragon also is working with ZAPP to take a revolutionary approach to these new shows and markets. ZAPPlication is in the process of constructing a new application process for us as we move into these new markets. For each series of shows (i.e., the Texas spring shows or Texas fall shows) there will be one jury process and one jury fee. For example, if you apply to the three Texas shows in the spring of 2013 and are juried into one event, you are accepted into all three shows and pay a single jury fee.

So please review the shows and markets listed below. We look forward to having you with us as we lay the groundwork for these new venues. Until then, as always we wish you fair weather, safe travels, and fantastic shows!

Bill Kinney
Paragon Fine Art Festivals

Historic Leesburg

Leesburg Fine Art Festival
September 15-16, 2012
This is a new addition to the Paragon Art Events lineup for 2012. The Leesburg Fine Art Festival will be held on King and West Market streets in downtown historic Leesburg, VA, one of Virginia’s oldest cities dating back over 250 years. It is a bedroom community for commuters to Washington, DC located just 35 miles from the Nation’s capital and 15 minutes from Washington-Dulles International Airport.
This event represents the culmination of more than three years of negotiation. Leesburg has previously permitted only one major event in their downtown district: a flower festival with an annual attendance of over 35,000. We are honored to be the second permitted event in Leesburg.Leesburg is in Loudon County which has the highest median household income in the U.S ($112,021).
Over the past decade Loudoun County has been one of the fastest-growing job markets in the nation. Leesburg is the headquarters for several major technology companies and federal government contractors including AOL, US Airways, Neustar, Verizon Business and Raytheon.

Number of artists: 124
Booth fee: $395
Applications being accepted on www.ZAPPlication.org

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Birkdale Village

Charlotte Fine Art Festival
October 27-28, 2012
The Greater Charlotte Fine Art Festival moves to its new location in Birkdale Village in Huntersville, NC. The wealthy Lake Norman region is located 12 miles north of Charlotte, NC. Birkdale Village is a mixed-use retail and residential venue of restaurants, stores and cafes intermixed with apartments, townhouses, and private residences. The show will set up on the beautiful tree-lined Concourse through the middle of Birkdale Village. The show will be held to about 80 artists in 2012 with expansion in subsequent years.
The show will draw both from the local Lake Norman region and the Charlotte metropolitan area of over 1.8 million people. Huntersville is one of the richest and most exclusive markets in the Greater Charlotte area. Housing prices have risen between 70-90% since 2000 with a mean household income nearly twice that of the state average.

Number of artists: 82
Booth fee: $395
Applications being accepted on www.ZAPPlication.org

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Mt Pleasant Town Center

Greater Charleston Fine Art Festival
November 3-4, 2012
The Greater Charleston Fine Art Festival moves to the Mount Pleasant Towne Centre on Rt. 17 in the heart of the area’s island resort communities, a superb and highly-visibile location. Architecturally distinct, the Mount Pleasant Towne Centre embodies fine Southern living and has been voted Charleston’s No. 1 shopping destination 10 consecutive years.
The event will draw on the combined populations of Mount Pleasant, Charleston and the affluent island resorts. The population of Mount Pleasant has increased 43% since 2000 with 28% of the families on Mount Pleasant having household incomes exceeding $100,000.
The Charleston community has long been recognized for its support of the arts, home to over 70 art galleries and named by American Style magazine as a Top 25 art destination. With CBS committed as our primary media sponsor, we anticipate the word to be spread throughout the Low Country and in combination with the new site the show is destined to become the premier event of the Greater Charleston area.

Number of artists: 120
Booth fee: $395
Applications being accepted on www.ZAPPlication.org

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FORT WORTH FINE ART FESTIVAL
November 10-11, 2012
The Fort Worth Fine Art Festival will be held at Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth, Texas. Anchored by Dillard’s, Macy’s and the nation’s top-selling department store Nieman-Marcus, the mall is located only 7 miles west of the site of the Main St. Fort Worth Art Festival. The mall draws from a community of over 740,000.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is home to 20 Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Dean Foods and Southwest Airlines. Notable companies with national headquarters in Fort Worth include AMR, RadioShack, Pier 1 Imports and the Fortune 500 homebuilder D.R. Horton. Housing prices in the Fort Worth marketplace have increased more than 70% since 2000. Within an 8-mile radius are seven of the wealthiest areas of Texas with a mean household income of $125,900.

GREATER DALLAS FINE ART FESTIVAL
November 17-18, 2012
The Greater Dallas Fine Art Festival will be held at Oak Point Park in Plano, TX, a beautiful 800-acre preserve 12 miles from Richardson, TX (site of the Cottonwood Art Festival) and only 18 miles northeast of downtown Dallas, TX.
Plano was voted one of the top three suburbs of Dallas to “live well in” and is ranked not only the wealthiest city in the nation with a population over 250,000 but also the safest city to live in. Nearly half the zip codes in Plano rank in the wealthiest zip codes in Texas with an average household income of $105,800. Plano also has one of the lowest cost-of-living indices in America.
Oak Point Park annually hosts the Plano Balloon Festival and the City of Plano hosts the International Festival. Plano also is headquarters for many large national corporations including J.C. Penny, Dell, Siemens, Snapple, Frito-Lay and Pizza Hut.

Number of artists: 150 (each show)
Booth fee: $395
Applications accepted beginning May 21, 2012

NOTE: all new events are contingent on permitting

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LONGBOAT KEY FINE ART FESTIVAL
February 2-3, 2013
The Longboat Key Fine Art Festival will be held on the 11-mile barrier island by the same name: Longboat Key. Located north of St Armand’s Circle on Florida’s west coast, the show will set up on Bay Isles Road next to the Publix shopping center.
The average household income is over $90,000. What there is on Longboat Key is wealth and disposable income: in both the residents and tourists visiting during the winter in-season months.
Home prices on Longboat Key are not only among the most expensive in Florida but among the most expensive nationally. The average listing price currently on Longboat Key is over $1,074,000 and the average sale prices of the most recent 25 properties sold is over $598,000.

Number of artists: 95
Booth fee: $395
Applications accepted beginning June 21, 2012

FORT WORTH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
March 23-24, 2013
The Fort Worth Festival of the Arts will be held at Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth, Texas. Anchored by Dillard’s, Macy’s and the nation’s top-selling department store Nieman-Marcus, the mall is located only 7 miles west of the site of the Main St.. The mall draws from a community of over 740,000.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is home to 20 Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Dean Foods and Southwest Airlines. Notable companies with national headquarters in Fort Worth include AMR, RadioShack, Pier 1 Imports and the Fortune 500 homebuilder D.R. Horton. Housing prices in the Fort Worth marketplace have increased more than 70% since 2000. Within an 8-mile radius are seven of the wealthiest areas of Texas with a mean household income of $125,900.

Paragon will host an Easter/Passover dinner in Texas for artists away from home on
March 31, 2013

PLANO FINE ART FESTIVAL
April 6-7, 2013
The Plano Fine Art Festival will be held at Oak Point Park in Plano, TX, a beautiful 800-acre preserve 12 miles from Richardson, TX (site of the Cottonwood Art Festival) and only 18 miles northeast of downtown Dallas, TX.
Plano was voted one of the top three suburbs of Dallas to “live well in” and is ranked not only the wealthiest city in the nation with a population over 250,000 but also the safest city to live in. Nearly half the zip codes in Plano rank in the wealthiest zip codes in Texas with an average household income of $105,800. Plano also has one of the lowest cost-of-living indices in America.
Oak Point Park annually hosts the Plano Balloon Festival and the City of Plano hosts the International Festival. Plano also is headquarters for many large national corporations including J. C. Penny, Dell, Siemens, Snapple, Frito-lay and Pizza Hut.

SAN ANTONIO FINE ART FESTIVAL
April 13-14, 2013
The San Antonio Fine Art Festival will be held at the Village at Stone Oak, an upscale open-air shopping village located 15 minutes north of downtown San Antonio, TX on Hwy. 281.
San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the United States and second largest in Texas with a population of over 1.3 million. It is home to five Fortune 500 companies including Valero Energy, Tesoro, USAA Insurance, CC Media Holdings and NuStar Energy. Over 65% of the zipcodes surrounding the Village at Stone Oak are among the wealthiest in Texas with an average household income over $100,000 and the cost of living in San Antonio is 7% below the national average.

Number of artists: 150 (each show)
Booth fee: $395
Applications accepted beginning June 21, 2012

NOTE: all new events are contingent on permitting

Pierson Park on the Hudson

HUDSON RIVER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
May 18-19, 2013 (Tarrytown, NY)
The Hudson River Festival of the Arts returns to Tarrytown, NY in the spring of 2013. The festival site is Pierson Park on the beautiful RiverWalk that winds along the eastern shore of the Hudson River. The Metro North Commuter Rail Service provides easy access to the show site directly from Manhattan and Grand Central Station. The downtown district of Tarrytown is less than 0.5 miles from the site.
This area of New York supports a strong community of art patrons. Within a 20-mile radius of Tarrytown are the cities of Greenwich, CT, Armonk, NY and Scarsdale, NY (Westchester Festival of the Arts). Westchester County is the second wealthiest county in New York and 12th wealthiest nationwide.
In 2004 Westchester County embarked on the Hudson RiverWalk project to convert a 50-mile stretch of the Hudson River waterfront from primarily industrial facilities to a mixed-use residential, retail, and recreational properties and provide public access between New York City and Putnam County. This transformation is most notable in Tarrytown. Adjoining Pierson Park is Hudson Harbor with elegant townhouses and condominiums, a yacht club and marina.

Number of artists: 110
Booth fee: $395
Applications accepted beginning June 21, 2012


Discovery Green

HOUSTON FINE ART FESTIVAL
November 2-3, 2013
The Houston Fine Art Festival will be held at Discovery Green in downtown Houston, TX. Discovery Park, recipient of numerous awards for design and construction, is a unique urban and sculpture park located downtown across from the George R. Brown Convention Center. It is home to four fixed and two moving sculpture exhibits and hosts numerous concerts and festivals throughout the year.
Houston, with a population of over 2.1 million, is home to 23 Fortune 500 companies, more than any metropolis outside of New York City. The Theatre District also is the largest in the nation outside of New York City. Houston ranks second in the nation in employment growth with the strong economy resulting from a broad base in the fields of energy, aeronautics, technology and the health care industry. This is why art shows in the Houston marketplace have continued strong in this economy.

FORT WORTH FINE ART FESTIVAL
November 9-10, 2013
The Fort Worth Fine Art Festival will be held at Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth, Texas. Anchored by Dillard’s, Macy’s and the nation’s top-selling department store Nieman-Marcus, the mall is located only 7 miles west of the site of the Main St. Fort Worth Art Festival. The mall draws from a community of over 740,000 with a median age of 33 years.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is home to 20 Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Dean Foods and Southwest Airlines. Notable companies with national headquarters in Fort Worth include AMR, RadioShack, Pier 1 Imports and the Fortune 500 homebuilder D.R. Horton. Housing prices in the Fort Worth marketplace have increased more than 70% since 2000. Within an 8-mile radius are seven of the wealthiest areas of Texas with an mean household income of $125,900.

GREATER DALLAS FINE ART FESTIVAL
November 16-17, 2013
The Greater Dallas Fine Art Festival will be held at Oak Point Park in Plano, TX, a beautiful 800-acre preserve 12 miles from Richardson, TX (site of the Cottonwood Art Festival) and only 18 miles northeast of downtown Dallas, TX.
Plano was voted one of the top three suburbs of Dallas to “live well in” and is ranked not only the wealthiest city in the nation with a population over 250,000 but also the safest city to live in. Nearly half the zip codes in Plano rank in the wealthiest zip codes in Texas with an average household income of $105,800. Plano also has one of the lowest cost-of-living indices in America.
Oak Point Park annually hosts the Plano Balloon Festival and the City of Plano hosts the International Festival. Plano also is headquarters for many large national corporations including J.C. Penny, Dell, Siemens, Snapple, Frito-Lay and Pizza Hut.

Number of artists: 150 (each show)
Booth fee: $395
Applications accepted beginning June 21, 2012

NOTE: all new events are contingent on permitting

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ADDITIONAL FESTIVALS STILL OPEN FOR 2012

WESTHAMPTON BEACH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
September 1-2, 2012

FAIRFAX FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
October 6 -7, 2012

MARYLAND FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
October 13-14, 2012

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Spring & Mother’s Day IDEAS

May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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The Mother at Home, or The Principles of Materal Duty, by Re. John S.C. Abbott, 1833

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View from a Harwich Port Cape Cod Massachusetts

May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE END IF YOU COUNT STEPS AND MINUTES

May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE END IF YOU COUNT STEPS AND MINUTES
By Carol M. Kimball

It’s a long way, a long way to the end…

Don’t count steps or minutes
Live in the moment, plan for the future
It’s a long way, a long way to the end
If you count steps and minutes

Count love and joy
Count leaves and petals
Live the life you were given
Give the life you were given
Who did you love today?

It’s OK

It’s a long way to the end, a long way to the end…

Live the life you were given
Give the life you were given
Count love and joy
Count leaves and petals
Who did you love today?

Live in the moment and plan for the future

It’s OK

Don’t ever give up
Don’t ever give up

It’s a long way to the end, a long way to the end…

Don’t count steps or minutes
Live the life you were given
Count love and joy, leaves and petals

Live in the moment and plan for the future
It’s a long way to the end, a long way to the end…

Kimball Productions Inc.
5 Alroy Road
South Weymouth, MA 02190
1-781-335-8904 ck8904@comcast.net

 

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Sawyer and Hurley and Daft Agenda at ImprovBoston’s Sketchhaus!

May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

May 17 at 9:30pm until May 18 at 10:30pm
Sawyer and Hurley
www.sawyerandhurley.com
open for….
DAFT AGENDA

http://daftagenda.improvteams.com/

at ImprovBoston’s SKETCHHAUS

May 17
at
9.30pm

in the Studio Theater
2 Sketch comedy groups for the Price of one.
Drink at the show!
Bar service in the lobby.

 

Order your Tickets here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2913138275?ref=ebtn

SKETCH RULES !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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FREE and LIVE show in Boston

May 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is a FREE SHOW. click on this link and reserve up to 5 FREE SEATS. Space is going Fast! http://www.improvboston.com/shows/nightcap

Hurley Brothers: LIVE! and FREE! (At ImprovBoston’s NightCap)
Friday, May 25 at 11:30pm at ImprovBoston
Join

DownCellar Films presents………
the 2 former Kings of the South/North Shore furniture business, LIVE at ImprovBoston’s NightCap.
HURLEY BROTHERS LIVE!
FREE OF CHARGE! But get there early…..space is limited.
Also, Films and Film Sketches will be shown.
Saul and Arnold Hurley
- THE HURLEY BROTHERS

Hurley Brothers: LIVE! and FREE! (At ImprovBoston's NightCap)

ImprovBoston
40 Prospect St., Cambridge, MA 02139
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