Letters from CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 28, No. 12

Sundance 2018 CAMP Rehoboth Chorus Ooh La La! Gay Games­

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August 24, 2018 Volume 28, Number 12 camprehoboth.com

Inside This Issue

In Brief....................................................................................... 4 CAMP Matters — Fanning the Flames...................................... 6 CAMP Out — Ooh La La!........................................................... 8 Sundance — Dance! Tickets!..................................................12 AIDSwalk 2018: Why I’m Walking............................................ 14 Straight Talk — An Inside Look at Gay Adoption.....................16 Sundance — Must Have Items!...............................................18 It’s My Life — House Hunting.................................................. 22 President’s View — Strategic Planning................................... 26 CAMP News — Bears, Reunion Tour....................................... 32 CROP Serves Sustenance and Love....................................... 32 CAMP Cheers! ........................................................................ 40 CAMP Stories — The Thin Line................................................ 44 Volunteer Spotlight — Pat Catanzariti.................................... 48 Eating Out — Dogfish Head Distillery Tour............................. 52 CAMP Critters ......................................................................... 56 View Point — Rudy on a Ledge............................................... 62 The Real Dirt — Painting the Town.......................................... 64 CAMP Shots — Hot Fun In the Summertime........................... 68 Q Puzzle — Of Paramount Importance....................................74 Millennial Times — Agreeing to Disagree............................... 78 Out and Proud — What’s Your Read for Dog Days?................ 84 Delaware Valley Legacy Fund ............................................... 86 Intentionally Inclusive — Labels.............................................. 88 We Remember: Jim Yiaski....................................................... 90 Out and About — Strike a Pose............................................... 96 Spotlight — Chorus: They Can’t Stop the Beat....................... 98 CAMP Arts — Art in Labor (Day).............................................100 Booked Solid — And Then We Danced..................................104 Amazon Trails — Say What??................................................. 110 CAMP Dates — August 24 – September 21 ...........................114 Letters from CAMP Rehoboth welcomes submissions.

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Sundance 2018: Rainbow XXXI—In the Name of Love. Labor Day Weekend, September 1-2.

Resources Serving Delaware’s Coastal Area ACLU of DE Lesbian & Gay Civil Rights Project .................................................. 302-654-3966 AIDS Delaware New Castle County.................................................................... 302-652-6776 AIDS Delaware Kent & Sussex Counties............................................................. 302-226-3519 AIDS Hotline Delaware statewide...................................................................... 800-422-0429 CAMP Chorus a program of the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center................ 302-227-5620 CAMP Rehoboth Community Center LGBTQ Community Service Organization ..... 302-227-5620 CAMP Rehoboth Families allows LGBTQ parents to connect............................... 302-227-5620 CAMP Rehoboth Parents of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children.......... 302-227-5620 CAMPsafe AIDS Education & Prevention program of CAMP Rehoboth ............. 302-227-5620 Christiana Care HIV Wellness Clinic AIDS Support Services, Georgetown............. 302-933-3420 Christiana Care LGBTQ Health Initiatives TRodden@christianacare.org................ 302-733-1227 Delaware HIV Consortium HIV Treatment & Prevention, Statewide .................... 302-654-5471 Delaware Human Relations Commission Housing & Public Accomodation ........... 877-544-8626 Delaware Pride Community events, annual Pride Festival................................ 302-265-3020 Delaware Transgender Support Support for Trans Men & Women....................... 302-402-3033 Gay/Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous Call for other schedules................................ 302-856-6452

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CAMP Rehoboth Mission Statement and Purpose CAMP Rehoboth is a nonprofit community service organization dedicated to creating a more positive environment in Rehoboth Beach and its related communities. We seek to promote cooperation and understanding among all people, as we work to build safe, inclusive communities with room for all.

We seek to promote community well-being on all levels; to foster the development of community groups; to develop community space; to promote human and civil rights; to work against prejudice and discrimination; to lessen tensions among the community at large; and to help foster the economic growth of the area. We work toward these ends through activities such as the following: Fundraising for other organizations, such as AIDS service organizations, gay and lesbian community organizations, recycling programs, environmental projects, literacy training, and other ventures for the general betterment of the community.

Networking resources and information by publishing a newsletter, and functioning as an alternative tourist bureau and information center.

Promoting artistic expressions and creative thinking, and giving aid to artists and craftspeople with an emphasis on the works of lesbians and gay men.

Education and outreach to the larger community, including sensitivity training seminars, and printed materials to promote positive images of gay and lesbian people and others.

Promoting political awareness to build safe and inclusive community through voter information, education, and registration; and analysis of issues and candidates.

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Murray Archibald INTERIM EDITOR Fay Jacobs DESIGN AND LAYOUT Mary Beth Ramsey EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE Marj Shannon ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Tricia Massella ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT Monica Parr, Barb Ralph DISTRIBUTION Tom Craft, Corky Fitzpatrick CONTRIBUTORS: Murray Archibald, Sondra N. Arkin, Rich Barnett, Tony Burns, Wesley Combs, JulieAnne Cross, Stefani Deoul, Michael Thomas Ford, David Garrett, Michael Gilles, Fay Jacobs, Lee Lynch, Tricia Massella, Monica Parr, Eric C. Peterson, Glen Pruitt, Mary Beth Ramsey, Richard Rosendall, Terri Schlichenmeyer, James Adams Smith, Eric W. Wahl, Debbie Woods, Doug Yetter.

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PRESIDENT • Chris Beagle VICE PRESIDENT • Leslie Sinclair SECRETARY • Shelley Couch TREASURER • Natalie Moss, CPA AT-LARGE DIRECTORS Jane Blue, Mike DeFlavia, Max Dick, Kathy McGuiness, Jack Morrison, Glen Pruitt, Mark Purpura, Tara Sheldon, Kathy Wiz INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • Murray Archibald HEALTH PROGRAM DIRECTOR • Sal Seeley CAMP Rehoboth 37 Baltimore Avenue Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 302-227-5620 • Fax 302-227-5604 e-mail: editor@camprehoboth.com www.camprehoboth.com CAMP Rehoboth, Inc. is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to CAMP Rehoboth are considered charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes and may be deducted to the fullest extent of the law. A copy of our exemption document is available for public inspection. © 2018 by CAMP Rehoboth, Inc. All rights reserved by CAMP Rehoboth. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of the editor.

The Way I See It

by Murray Archibald

THIS IS THE LABOR DAY ISSUE OF LETTERS FROM CAMP REHOBOTH, AND THE LAST ONE OF the 2018 summer season. Beginning in September, Letters returns to a monthly publication schedule—so watch for the next issue on Friday, September 21. This issue is all about Sundance 2018: Rainbow XXXI—In the Name of Love, our largest fundraiser of the year, and it should contain just about all the information anyone would ever need to know about Sundance. Go to camprehoboth.com or call the CAMP Rehoboth office for more information or to purchase tickets. ▽ SUNDANCE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT, MADE POSSIBLE BY THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS of a great many extraordinary people. Sundance depends on hundreds of volunteers to create, produce, and execute it; hundreds more individual and business auction donors; and more than 470 (and still counting) Individual Hosts, Supporters, and Sponsors. Our Host/Sponsor list is printed in this issue, and following the event all the volunteers and auction donors will be listed and thanked as well. ▽ CONGRATULATIONS TO NEWLY ELECTED CITY COMMISSIONERS DICK BYRNE AND PAT COLUZZI. We look forward to working with them. A word of thanks, as well, to both of them and to candidate Gary Glass for participating in the recent Letters from CAMP Rehoboth Candidate Forum and the Candidate Forum here at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center sponsored by the RB Homeowners Association and CAMP Rehoboth. ▽ CAMP REHOBOTH ANNOUNCED IN THE PREVIOUS ISSUE THAT THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF the Arts (DDOA) had awarded the organization another arts grant to help provide funding for its art programing, including: art exhibitions, theatre arts, Women’s FEST, the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus, and creative arts programming for the 55+ population. On August 9, the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center was the site of an amazing exhibition that included work by several of the DDOA 2018 Fellowship winners. The first half of the reception took place in the CAMP Rehoboth Gallery; the second half occurred in the performance space, and included readings, photos, and a short film. As I explained in my opening comments for the performance portion of the event, the arts have been a part of the CAMP Rehoboth vision and mission from the start. We are grateful to the DDOA for support for these programs, and to all who work to make them a success. A special word of thanks goes to CAMP Rehoboth Board Vice-President Leslie Sinclair for her work on both the Grants Committee and the Arts Team. ▽ THE FIRST CAMP REHOBOTH BACHELOR AUCTION TOOK PLACE IN 1996 AT THE BLUE MOON, and continued there for more than ten years. After a short break, it returned, this time to Aqua, where it has found a home ever since. In recent years, Chris Beagle has chaired the event, and the addition of Sundance auctioneer Lorne Crawford cranked up the energy and the fun.

The tradition continued on Sunday, August 12, and so did the fun. The 2018 CAMP Rehoboth Bachelor Auction raised more than $23,000 for CAMP Rehoboth, and we are grateful to everyone who made that possible. Congratulations Chris and Lorne! ▽ I HAVE LIVED IN DOWNTOWN REHOBOTH BEACH FOR ALMOST THREE DECADES NOW, AND I love it in every season. Some locals complain about the crowds in the summertime, but without those crowds we wouldn’t be much of a beach resort—and most of us would never have come here in the first place. I love the busyness of the summertime and the quiet of the winter, though it is not as quiet as it was when we first moved to town. Over the years the shoulder seasons have certainly expanded, and festivals abound almost all year long now. Coming up this fall: Bear Weekend, the CAMP Rehoboth Block Party, Jazz Festival, Sea Witch, and the Rehoboth Beach Film Festival—plus, all kinds of art and theater events and activities. ▽ AS A QUICK REMINDER—VENDOR FORMS FOR THE CAMP REHOBOTH BALTIMORE AVENUE Block Party are available at CAMP Rehoboth. Block Party has quickly become a beloved Rehoboth event. It’s hard to pass up a beautiful fall street fair. Join us on Sunday afternoon, October 14. ▽

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InBrief Around the World with Letters

ACCENT ON TRAVEL - CRUISING SVALBARD Terry Barrera, Deb Chase, Susan Siemionko, Roger Siemionko, Annette Stellhorn, Rick Stellhorn, Dana Luigard

PROVINCETOWN Max Dick, Bryan Herring, Sam Triolo, Jim Villareale, Tom Flowers, Jim Flowers, Dale Ebert

Sundance Land & Sea Racing Festival This run-walk-swim event includes a fun run, walk, and a traditional biathlon plus a chance to sashay all around town. Organized by the Seashore Striders to benefit CAMP Rehoboth, this event on Sunday, August 26, includes a 5K run, a one-mile walk, and a half mile swim. Registration begins at 7 a.m. at the Bandstand, the race starts at 8 a.m with an after-party at CAMP Rehoboth (Bloody Marys, craft beer, and food). Info: seashorestriders.com. ▼

RB Fire Department Returns to Aqua ST. PETERSBURG RUSSIA Lee Chrostowski and Sparky Jones

Senator Carper Returns to CAMP Rehoboth CAMP Rehoboth leadership and staff welcomed Delaware US Senator Tom Carper back to the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center on Friday, August 10. “We always look forward to these visits,” Murray Archibald says. “It’s a good conversation for all of us. We feel like our community is being heard and encouraged.” Photo: Leslie Sinclair, Murray Archibald, Chris Beagle, Monica Parr, Mark Purpura, Senator Tom Carper, Barb Ralph, and Natalie Moss. ▼ Letters 4

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GAY GAMES IN PARIS Bonnie Quesenberry, Fay Jacobs

The annual RB Fire Department fundraiser at Aqua was another success. Photo: (first row) Bill Shields, AJ Hemphill, Baha Rozyev, John Meng, Kent Swartz, Anthony, Apicella; (top row) Nassim Satar, Joe Miller, Derrick Teijnello. ▼

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The Biggest Dance Party of the Summer The Bidding Got Hot at the 2018 CAMP Rehoboth Bachelor Auction at Aqua The 2018 CAMP Rehoboth Bachelor Auction at Aqua raised over $23,000 for CAMP Rehoboth. The evening got especially exciting when restaurateur Megan Kee added a dinner for six at Houston-White to the mix—and eventually made it for eight and for two bidders. Hosts Chris Beagle, Lorne Crawford, and Fancie P. Charmington welcomed the whole crew to the stage. Photo: Daniel Lusk, Clay Lusk, Fancie P. Charmington, Michael Cormier, Megan Kee, Sutton Ward, and bachelorette Katie Lyell. ▼

ACLU Kandler Award Honors Steve Elkins Save the date! 2018 honorees include Steve Elkins, co-founder of CAMP Rehoboth, Maria Matos, president/ CEO of the Latin American Community Center, and Kevin O’Connell, Office of Defense Services.▼

The second night of the big Sundance event Labor Day weekend (Sept. 2) at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center is the biggest dance night of the Rehoboth summer season. Starting one hour earlier this year with lengendary DJ Robbie Leslie and seamlessly flowing to DJ/Remixer Joe Gauthreaux, expect a sensational night of music—with Paul Turner on the lights. Tickets at camprehoboth.com. ▼

Delaware Division of the Arts Winners at CAMP Rehoboth Community Center Artists and organizers gathered at the August 9 reception for the Delaware Division of the Arts Award Winners exhibit. From left to right: Leslie Sinclair, Ryan Grover, Thomas Del Porte, Lauren E. Peters, Jack Clemons, Paul Weagraff, Maribeth Fischer, Jen Epler, and Rob Waters.▼ AUGUST 24, 2018

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CAMP Matters

by Murray Archibald

I’m not done yet.

At some indeterminate point between the release of Issue number 11 and this one, I came to the conclusion that I had more to say about Sundance, and Steve, and dancing. This is Part II of Dancing in the Name of Love.

Kevin Kline provided many hilarious moments in the movie In and Out. One of the best was his attempt to get through a cassette recording titled “Guide to Being a Manly Man.” “The ultimate test” was, according to the voice on the tape, “at all cost, avoid rhythm, grace, and pleasure.

Whatever you do, DO NOT DANCE.” The music was “I Will Survive.”

The disco beat took over. He failed the test—gloriously—and danced around the room with a wild, hands-in-air exuberance that every gay man in the world would recognize instantly.

To this day I can’t watch that scene without leaping out of my chair and dancing right along with him.

My first memory of dancing goes back to the early 1960s.

I’m vague on details like grade or year but I was young—seven or eight maybe. We were in a school gymnasium and I was fascinated—the Monkey, the Twist, the Pony! What skill I might have been missing I made up for in enthusiasm—which in my mind now must surely have been read as “gay-as-a-goose!”

As I got a bit older, I would spend a couple of weeks each summer at a Methodist church camp in the mountains of North Alabama. To heck with the hiking, fishing, and canoes—I lived for the folk and line dancing we did every night Letters 6

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after dinner. No one could kick higher!

Then there was disco.

In 1977 Georgio Moroder and Donna Summer released “I Feel Love.” It was a radical breakthrough. “I Feel Love” was and remains an astonishing achievement: a futuristic record that still sounds fantastic. Pop critic Jon Savage wrote in The Guardian in 2012, “Within its modulations and pulses, it achieves the perfect state of grace that is the ambition of every dance record: it obliterates the tyranny of the clock—the everyday world of work, responsibility, money— and creates its own time, a moment of pleasure, ecstasy, and motion that seems infinitely expandable, if not eternal.”

“I Feel Love” remains on my “favorites” list to this day.

Sometime in the early 1980s I was mesmerized by fan dancers in the clubs of New York. I didn’t really have a mentor, but slowly began to teach myself the art. My first fans were lethal weapons disguised in sequin chiffon—gorgeous but deadly. I had used too much weight in them, and though I developed a certain skill with them at the time, there were occasions when I almost knocked myself out cold on the dance floor. One of the photos included in the movie that Carolyn Watson made for Steve’s funeral showed a group of us at a birthday party at our apartment in Manhattan. In it, Steve has the remains of a black eye from those fans. We were out on Fire Island the week before, he picked up the fans, made half a spin, and hit himself in the eye.

I haven’t used that pair of fans in years, but I still love to watch the fan dancers and flaggers when I have the chance—and on rare occasions—usually late at night at Sundance—I find the time to create a little fan magic myself.

I still love to dance—but even more, I love to dance with a pair of fans—or flags. The air and fabric swirl around my head, and for a time that’s all there is—the music, the lights, the motion, the color. For a brief moment in time, I have wings—I can fly.

There have been countless discussions in recent decades about the evolving nature of gay culture and an ongoing debate over questions of

When I’m fan dancing, I feel like I’m celebrating and preserving a little piece of gay culture.

More importantly to me, the dance connects me to my creative center. assimilation or separation. CAMP Rehoboth has always been about finding common ground and building bridges throughout our community, and I continue to believe that is what we all—gay and straight—need to do to create strong and safe environments for everyone. That doesn’t mean that we have to give up our heritage or stop exploring what it means to be LGBTQ. When I’m fan dancing, I feel like I’m celebrating and preserving a little piece of gay culture. More importantly to me, the dance connects me to my creative center. I feel like I’m fanning the flames of my heart and soul. Collectively, the room feels alive with music, with people, with joys, and hopes, and creative potential.

No matter how tired I am from a week of Sundance setup, I still find the time to dance—and I hope that will always be true.

The first night of Sundance is the auction. The second is the dance, and it kicks off this year with legendary DJ Robbie Leslie opening the doors onto the world of disco. Later on the amazing Joe Gauthreaux takes over the room, and I’m confident that we will hear some of Joe’s equally amazing remixes—including his new mix of Diana Ross’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” and the new mixes of “Don’t Leave Me This Way.” If I were allowed to play Disco Lottery (see Letters, Volume 28, Number 11 for full story and on page 12 for a brief), which I’m not because of my connections to the DJs, I would pick “This is Me” from the motion picture The Greatest Showman.

This is me…this is Sundance—and Sundance is all of us, together, celebrating life, and love, and joy, and the very precious little time we have to spend together with the people we love.

Sundance is in memory of my husband and co-founder of CAMP Rehoboth and Sundance, Steve Elkins. He loved Sundance, and he worked hard for years to make it a success.

He wouldn’t want us to be sad—but to celebrate the chance to come together as a community and have a good time.

He would encourage all of us—dancers and not—to fan the flames of love: to be kind to one another, to love one another, to laugh, and hug, and remember that even where there is grief and pain, there is joy also.

On Sunday, September 2, we will dance the Sundance for the 31st time. Come early, stay late, but please join us on the dance floor. Together we support our community, together we support the work of CAMP Rehoboth, and together we support each other and in doing so, lighten whatever burden might be weighing us down.

By the way, I can always find extra Sundance tickets for fan dancers in search of a dance floor.

Fan on. Let’s dance. ▼

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CAMP Out Fay’s Rehoboth Journal

by Fay Jacobs

Ooh La La! Something I’ll Never Forget

O

oh la la! The 10th Gay Games in Paris, the week of August 4, was an experience magnifique!

My dream of walking into the stadium with our eight-member Team Rehoboth for the opening ceremonies was just as sweet as I envisioned and twice as emotional.

The Games happen every four years; this was the 10th edition of the games, which started in San Francisco 40 years ago when gay athletes faced discrimination in the Olympics.

For the 2018 opening ceremonies, the US marched in early, and Delaware lined up right behind California. Seven of us waited to enter, as our eighth teammate (and captain), Bill McManus, marched in earlier as a board member for the Federation of Gay Games.

As we peeked from the entry tunnel, the crowd of thousands seemed small in a stadium for 50,000, but it had to be 10,000, with the lion’s share of athletes still to enter and take their seats.

The crowd cheered, hollered, and “did the wave.”

As we set foot on the field, two French hosts preceded us, waving a Delaware placard and announcing “De La Ware” over the thundering loudspeakers.

Behind us, Florida and Georgia stood ready, followed by the rest of the states, and countries from Albania to Zambia.

As we started to cross the field, hundreds of thoughts collided in my brain, most echoing some form of “we’re queer, we’re here, and this old dame can’t really believe it.” I’m pretty sure those rioting queens at Stonewall couldn’t have envisioned the glory of this moment, either.

I held the left side of the rainbow colored Team Rehoboth banner, my friend Anne Geary held the right, and in between stood David Nelson, Bruce Robertson, Glen Parr, and Joe Della Torre, with Bonnie frolicking behind us, cheering and punching the hot night air with her fist. We crossed the center of the field, grinning, whooping it up, and feeling various blends of pride, thankfulness, and the need for another cold brew.

We’d been lining up in the brutally hot sun for hours, visiting other delegations and joining the crowd in guzzling so much beer the vendors ran out.

We soaked up every delicious hoot, holler, and moment.

As we ended our cross-field journey and scrambled to seats, teams continued the march in for almost an hour and a half, filling the stadium to at least 15,000 people, with enormous contingents from the likes of the UK (900) and Germany (700), and finishing with thousands of French participants.

In between there were teams of every size, including many brave individuals from places where it is both illegal and dangerous to be queer and here. There were two athletes from Jamaica, only one from Macou, several from Papua New Guinea, and, oddly, more gay athletes from Uganda than Rehoboth. I couldn’t stop thinking about what many of them risked just to show up.

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Denmark, Israel, Italy, Norway, Surinam, Switzerland—just overwhelming.

Of course, there were costumes. Texas had cowboy hats, Thailand wore towering Buddha-like headdresses, Mexico had musicians camping it up, and the Chinese team tossed adorable toy pandas into the air.

The ceremony included song, dance, and Cirque du Soleilstyle acrobats. When the stadium jumbotrons lit up with the words “We are stronger together,” everyone watching knew it to be true.

The next day, the Athletes’ Village came to life at Paris City Hall, with vendors, sponsors, entertainment, and food trucks.

The enormous, architecturally impressive, and historic L’Hotel de Ville, dating back well before the French Revolution, stood draped in 21st century rainbow banners.

Rue des Archives, in the Marais District Gayborhood, simply exploded with rainbow flags, crosswalks, Gay Games banners, and glitter. Men and women filled the establishments, spilling into the streets, a jumble of ages, languages, and attire. It was Gay Paree indeed.

Through the week, Bill, David, and Bruce bowled, Bonnie and Anne golfed, Glen and Anne half-marathoned, and Joe and I “coached.” And everybody got souvenir participation medals.

I might add, we did not go hungry or thirsty throughout the week either, but that’s a whole other kettle of fish, pate, red wine, and croissants.

I would be remiss not to mention the giant dance parties, including the massive Women’s Party hosted by our friends at Olivia Travel. It was held aboard a humongous barge docked along the banks of the River Seine. Despite dozens and dozens of countries represented, the music was so loud no one could hear the diversity of language so it looked and felt just like a giant Women’s FEST tea dance at the Rehoboth Convention Center. Only with better scenery and a younger demographic.

Not that there weren’t some old gals there like me. There were. And we were the only ones who printed our tickets out on paper instead of waving our iPhones around for entry.

So from August 3-9, I came, saw, and even conquered a plate of snails.

Seriously, clutching my part of that banner, representing Rehoboth in the International Gay Games, and having this experience is something still hard for me to realize ever could and ever did actually happen. And it’s surely something I will never ever forget. Along with those snails. ▼ Fay Jacobs is an author of five published memoirs. Her newest is Fried & Convicted: Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. As a humorist, she’s touring with her show Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay. See www.fayjacobs.com

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SEPTEMBER 22 AIDS WALK

Why I’m Walking

by JulieAnne Cross

HIV IS ON THE RISE IN PEOPLE OVER 50 DELAWARE’S HIV EPIDEMIC DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTS THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION Assuming your demographic is not at risk can be a deadly mistake

“I have 2,000 condoms in my car.” This statement gets a giggle every time I say it. As a cisgender, straight, married, plump, white lady. I usually make this statement to people when my husband and 16-yearold son are close by.

It’s not the idea that I have condoms in my life, but the sheer quantity that gets the laugh. I have purple hair and wear neon eye shadow and teal lipstick, so nobody blinks when I come forth with (GASP!) subject matter like condoms…but the 2,000 part is pretty funny.

This week, I added dental dams and lube to this marvelous collection of prophylactics.

This part made ME giggle. See, as a 48-year-old woman who has now been in a relationship for half of my adult life, manufactured dental dams were not yet a product on the market when I was still “getting around.” I giggled because I was facing the prospect of distributing a product about which I previously had zero knowledge. Google to the rescue.

But it’s important to me. As I said, I am the mother of a teenager. We’ve been talking about pregnancy prevention since he was five years old. Disease prevention entered the conversation in the decade since.

Keeping your offspring healthy is not a hard concept to get behind, so even though it’s hard to picture myself ever needing a sexual prophylactic again, I’ve got to stay on top of the products that are out there.

I have the pleasure (pun intended) of distributing these latex (and some non-latex) miracles in the CAMP Rehoboth area because I’m working with AIDS Delaware and the Delaware HIV Consortium on AIDS Walk Delaware on September 22.

These two organizations, and many partnering agencies, collaborate on the AIDS Walk to bring awareness to a health issue that continues to devastate well-known populations and that has now spread to groups of people who are unsuspecting contributors to the crisis and unexpected victims of misinformation. ⊲ HIV is on the rise in people over 50. Older adults who begin dating again after a divorce or the death of a partner may not use condoms if they are unaware of

the risk of HIV. Assuming your demographic is not at risk can be a deadly mistake. ⊲ Delaware’s HIV epidemic disproportionately affects the African American population. This population composes 21% of Delaware’s citizens, but accounts for 61% and 67% of the State’s HIV and AIDS cases, respectively.

The CDC recommends that everyone 13 to 64 years old get tested for HIV at least once and that people at high risk of infection get tested more often.

I cannot imagine what life would be like reentering the dating pool after 24 years. I cannot picture the guilt and fear I’d face getting naked in front of someone after my husband passes, hopefully when we are both in our nineties. I cannot conceive of picking up the pieces after a divorce and opening myself up to new sexual attention.

Yet this happens every day to widows and widowers and divorcees. In that situation, they are just as vulnerable, physically and emotionally, as the 22-year-old singleton, the 18-year-old sexual novitiate, the 30-year-old bachelor, and the 40-yearold who walked away from a lover.

So for me, protection from sexually transmitted infections hits closest to home. That could be me someday.

Thousands in Delaware need support. Organizations like AIDS Delaware, the Delaware HIV Consortium, CAMP Rehoboth, and more are out there driving people to appointments, keeping patients on their meds, offering housing services, and testing for free.

The beneficiaries of these services are as diverse as the Walk supporters, those who recognize that HIV/AIDS is an epidemic that affects everyone— individuals, families, and communities.

Walk with us on September 22. Walk in celebration of Delawareans living with HIV, in support of statewide HIV/AIDS services, and in honor of those who have passed. Register at aidswalkdelaware.org to make a donation, sign-up for the Walk, and start building a team. Individual walkers may sign-up at Grove Park prior to the start of the Walk.

And please come see me if you need a condom. ▼

AIDS Walk Delaware returns September 22 AIDS Walk Delaware returns to Grove Park in Rehoboth Beach on Sept. 22 from 9 a.m. to noon. Always a huge event in Rehoboth, this is the state’s largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser and awareness event, and CAMP Rehoboth benefits from funds raised from this event. Hundreds of people join the action in solidarity to support Delawareans living with HIV/AIDS. Letters 14

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The AIDS Walk begins and ends at Grove Park. Along the way, the camaraderie is evident, with walkers traversing the route for a great cause. Sponsors for the AIDS Walk include Christiana Care Health Systems, Walgreens, Wilmington City Council, CAMP Rehoboth, PharmBlue, Wawa, McCrery, Harra Funeral Homes, Bayhealth, OraSure, and the Rehoboth Beach Bears.

Walkers may register at aidswalkdelaware.org and donors can use the same website to support a walker or team.

Join the CAMP Rehoboth unicorn team of walkers by contacting Salvatore Seeley at Salvatore@camprehoboth.com. ▼

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Straight Talk

by David Garrett

An Inside Look at Gay Adoption “The Federal Government, and any State or local government that receives Federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services...shall not discriminate or take an adverse action against a child welfare service provider on the basis that the provider has declined or will decline to provide, facilitate, or refer for a child welfare service that conflicts with, or under circumstances that conflict with, the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

Couched in language that supposedly protects the “religious rights” of those who are anti-LGBTQ, Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala) submitted this Amendment to the House Appropriations Committee. This Amendment is eerily similar to two bills submitted last year.

Upon the positive action of the Republican-majority House of Representatives, Aderholt stated, “As Co-Chairman of the House Coalition on Adoption, my goal was straightforward (no pun intended): to encourage states to include all experienced and licensed child welfare agencies so that children are placed in caring, loving homes where they can thrive. We need more support for these families and children in crisis, not less.”

This writer recently had the opportunity to interview two gay couples in Rehoboth Beach, both of whom have adopted children. These couples are John and Keith Riley-Spillane, and Mike Ryan and Kevin Reagan. No better understanding of gay adoption issues can be gained than from those who have gone through it. Herewith is part of the Q & A exchange with these two loving couples.

What factors went into your decision to adopt?

Riley-Spillane: Ten years into our relationship, we wanted children, but decided that the timing was not right.

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much larger home, and had a lot more patience and time for children. We began looking into the adoption process and decided that it would be best to become foster parents first. We still weren’t sure parenting was going to be our thing, so by fostering we could “try out” parenting.

Ryan/Reagan: As we grew together as a couple, we knew that we wanted to expand our family. We attended many conferences by a local group in New Jersey called Rainbow Families, which helped to educate us about different options that were open to us. This helped us identify an adoption agency that we felt was the best match for us and had a clear process that we believed in.

How old was/were your children at time of adoption?

Riley-Spillane: We fostered about 15 children before children came to us who were available for adoption. We have adopted three times. Our two oldest, Asia and Frank, were six and four-anda-half years old, respectively, when we adopted them. Our third child, Janene, was four months old when she came to us as a foster child and was under three years of age when her adoption was finalized. Our fourth and last child, Kaden, was five weeks old when he came to us and his adoption was finalized just after he turned two years of age.

Ryan/Reagan: Our son was three days old when we met him at the hospital.

What obstacles did you face as you took steps to adopt?

Riley-Spillane: Since we went through the welfare system to adopt, the obstacles were the training we had to complete on an ongoing basis, waiting for a placement, and then the process of termination of parental rights. A child has to reside in your home for six months prior to an adoption being granted; fortunately, the processes do happen concurrently.

Ryan/Reagan: The limitations presented by some adoption groups and agencies, including not being able to adopt openly internationally. The reality is that there is a divide with options for those who have greater access to money. Examples include working with private lawyers and private agencies, or the challenges of working with public agencies to foster, then adopt.

What advice would you give other gay parents as they decide to adopt?

Riley-Spillane: Research your options first. Be your child’s biggest advocate.

Develop a support system and use it when needed.

Ryan/Reagan: Making the decision to adopt is a huge step and requires great reflection. Any couple must be confident in who they are as individuals in order to raise a child. You must also be confident in your spousal relationship. Raising a child as a couple requires teamwork, communication, and patience.

Many thanks to John and Keith and to Mike and Kevin for their insight, their interest, and their love for their children.

Gay couples who adopt face many of the same obstacles and rewards that straight couples face. It is much less about being gay—it is more about being loving parents. Let’s hope that Aderholt’s Amendment is removed from the Appropriations Bill. Many children await adoption by loving parents, gay or straight. ▼ David Garrett is a straight advocate for equality and inclusion. He is also the proud father of an adult transdaughter. Email David Garrrett at dlgarrett4rb@gmail.com.

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SUNDANCE AUCTION

Going Once, Going Twice! SOLD! GET OUT OF HERE!

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t is not unusual for a charity fundraiser Chair Natalie Moss logs in the donated to include an auction as part of the fes- items as they arrive, so she is the first to tivities. Typically it happens after a ban- know what will be in the mix. quet dinner somewhere, and it consists of At the top of her list this year are a trio a few dozen items, arrayed on a couple of trips! Annual sponsor Accent on Travel of tables along the edges of the room. has donated a Celebrity cruise for two, However, Sundance is not your typical and the winning bidder gets to choose fundraiser, and the Sundance Silent and where to go. Possible destinations Live Auction could be described as “an include Alaska (roundtrip), Bermuda, the auction on steroids” (in the best possible Caribbean, as well as North America and sense of the word).

Puerto Rico sailings, experienced while First, let’s talk about size. When it traveling in the luxury of a Solstice or comes to Sundance, bigger IS better! The Millennium Class Ship. If you have trouble Sundance Silent Auction boasts nearly deciding about destinations, the other 500 items up for bid. The display of those two trips have taken care of that for you. items completely fills the main hall of the Olivia Cruises has donated a trip for two Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, as on Olivia’s Caribbean Islands, Bermuda, well as one of its breakout rooms. You and New York Cruise that takes place could say that Sundance April 27 - May 5 2019. has more auction items Joe DiSalvo has donated “We support Sundance a trip to Hawaii. Whatevper square foot than you thought possible. er the destination, the yearly because it’s For this year’s Sunwinning bidder is sure to important to us to support have the adventure of a dance, it falls to Sandra Skidmore and her team of lifetime!

CAMP Rehoboth. We volunteers to secure all the Already on site is a items, and she enjoys every also enjoy attending the Martin ukulele donatminute of it. “My job is to ed by Chris and Diana auction and dance.” charm folks into giving us Martin. Ukeleles are more good things others would popular than ever this BILL GRAFF & JEFF SCHUCK enjoy having, gather the year, and this one is from donations, pack the van, the finest of instrument and get everything to the venue intact.” makers. Items also include lots of collectTheir job is made easier by the incred- ables including two Fabergé eggs…and ible generosity of the community. Auction a polar bear! How about a TV upgrade? items are donated to CAMP Rehoboth There’s a 60-inch Vizio television! You by individuals and businesses not only can get everything you need from the in the Rehoboth Beach/Lewes area but loads of gift certificates—meals at area also from as far away as Washington DC restaurants, jewelry and glassware, clothand Philadelphia. They include all sorts ing and candy, sports and entertainment of items, from household furnishings like memorabilia. You just never know! lamps and chairs to consumables such as Other fine items are in the auction, candy and wine. Very popular are the gift too. One of those fine things is Lorne certificates for everything from massage Crawford, the professional auctioneer packages and spa treatments to dinners for the Live Auction who has donated his at favorite restaurants. Plus loads of arttime over many years to raise hundreds work of every style. There is something of thousands of dollars to support the for everyone! work of CAMP Rehoboth. Fewer than 20 Now let’s talk about breadth. It is items are reserved for this special attennot just the sheer number of items that tion, and it wouldn’t be a Sundance Live makes the Sundance Auction so spectac- Auction without trips, paintings by local ular, it is also the wide variety of the items favorites Ward Ellinger and Bill Snow, and donated. You never know what you might jewelry for both men and women from find on display and up for bid! Auction Elegant Slumming and Holland Jewelers.

Even the Sundance planners do not know what items might catch the fancy of bidders and become one of the highly sought-after items of the night.

“The thing that always makes me smile is a bidding war when two competitive bidders come back again and again, hovering over the bid sheets hoping to secure their treasures. It can get pretty heated,” explains Sandra Skidmore. One year it was a Mattel Pink Label Barbra Streisand Collector Barbie Doll. Another year it was a framed movie poster from Brokeback Mountain, autographed by the cast and director.

“Sometimes it is the kitschy stuff that gets people excited,” adds Auction Chair Natalie Moss. “For some reason, mermaids always seem to do well!” This year the auction contains a set of pool inflatables, including one swim ring that gives its user the appearance of having a mermaid’s tail. Pat Catanzariti can attest to the allure of the mermaid, too. “A couple of years ago I won the bid on a fairly large mermaid made out of cement,” she said. “Her eyes are so commanding that my wife Carole had to put sunglasses on her because she felt like she was always watching her!

Despite that, we absolutely adore her!”

Not all the items are that glamorous,

authentic

however; just ask Jane Blue: “I once won the bid on a fabulous hot water heater, completely installed, which was donated by Harry Caswell Plumbing Co. What a find! But since that time, Steve Elkins sweet talked me into working on the food team for Sundance, and I have not had the pleasure to actually get out on the floor and see all the wonderful items that are up for auction.”

Food and drink is an important part of the Sundance Auction experience.

While bidding on items, Sundance guests enjoy delicacies supplied by Plate Catering, as well as a full open bar.

It’s the biggest cocktail party imaginable with everyone from the summer, all having a good laugh, while raising the funds that keep CAMP Rehoboth programs and operations going for the whole year. So don’t lose sight of that fact.

Hundreds of generous donors make this event extra special. From those who supply the auction items, to the ones who win them, everyone plays a part.

It’s a joyful and lively evening. Music during the Auction will be provided by longtime CAMP Rehoboth supporter and DJ Stephen Strasser. Although Disco Lottery is reserved for Sunday night at the dance, listen closely, and Steve will surely play a favorite. ▼

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It’s My Life

by Michael Thomas Ford

House Hunting

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or Christmas I got my niece and nephew tickets to Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. They grew up with the books and love them. My nephew (who was 11 when the first film was released) so closely resembled movie Harry that he was frequently asked for autographs, so Harry’s very definitely a touchstone of their childhoods. The performance was a couple of weeks ago, and they came back from New York with effusive praise for the show and pins representing their respective houses (Ravenclaw and Gryffindor).

“We would have gotten you a house pin, but we didn’t know what yours is,” they informed me.

I also did not know what my house was. I have a less-chummy relationship with Mr. Potter than they do. The first book in the series came out around the time I was on tour for my essay collection, Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me & Other Trials from My Queer Life. It was a long tour, covering 25 cities, and on every single flight I was surrounded by people—both children and adults— reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. There were piles of it in the airport bookstores, and of course, every shop I read at was filled to bursting with it and it was all anyone wanted to talk about, which is slightly annoying when you’re trying to promote your own book.

I tend to view things that are overwhelmingly popular with the public with suspicion, but on my last flight of the tour I broke down and decided to see what all the fuss was about. I liked Harry and his world well enough, but not enough to read his subsequent adventures. And frankly, I was a little weary of his omnipresence.

Still, it’s impossible to be involved in the world of children’s literature, as I am, and not pick things up by osmosis. Also, I have friends—many, many friends— who are positively wild about Harry. So I know about the Sorting Hat and the houses, and have even been known to toss out a “Fifty points to Hufflepuff!” from time to time.

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But until now, I did not know my house.

I’ve had my suspicions. I was fairly positive I was not a Gryffindor, mainly because they seem like the people who irritated me most in school, what with all of their cup-winning and coming out on top every time nonsense. I gravitate more towards the underdogs and unpopular types. Logically, I felt, this meant I was probably a Slytherin, which was fine with me because, frankly, they seem the most interesting. But Hufflepuffs are into eating and always having enough socks and scarfs, which I find sensible and appealing, and the Ravenclaws from what I can tell are into learning things and, I don’t know, riddles and stuff.

It was time to find out once and for all.

There are lots of sorting quizzes out there. I started with the original, the one on the Pottermore site. After dutifully answering questions about my worst nightmare and favorite magical creature and which road I would choose from among four possible options, I sat there intoning, “Not a Gryffindor, not a Gryffindor, not a Gryffindor,” while the Sorting Hat did its thing, until with a burst of confetti I was informed that I was a Ravenclaw. Because I like to have multiple opinions, I took several other quizzes, ranging from ones with dozens of questions that claimed to be based on psychological principles to simple ones asking me what my favorite color and fruit and animal are. Every time, I came out a Ravenclaw.

I suppose that’s that, then. You’d think it would feel good to know, that I would be knitting up a scarf in blue and bronze (my house colors, at least in the books, which I will defer to over the Hollywood versions) and reading a biography of our founder, Rowena Ravenclaw, and finding out what she was all about.

Mostly, though, I’m wondering why the hell the house mascot (again, in the books) is an eagle and not a raven. And now I feel obligated to read the books and find out if I’m happy being a Claw or not, which frankly I’m a little peeved about because if I’m going to get dragged into this whole Potter thing, I’d rather be hanging out with werewolves or learning spells to defeat the dreaded Bellowing Orange Belchbeast, which I think are more Slytheriny things to do.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there are lots of ways to be a Ravenclaw.

Maybe it’s like this trend for categorizing gay men as animals. I kind of wandered around in Bear territory for a while, then scampered around as an Otter. Now I’m told I’m actually more of a Wolf, although I’m unclear exactly what that means apart from having grey hair and being Of A Certain Age. Whatever. As long as I’m not a Gryffindor, it’s all good. Fifty points to me! ▼ Michael Thomas Ford is a much-published Lambda Literary award-winning author. Visit Michael at michaelthomasford.com

Now I’m told I’m actually more of a Wolf, although I’m unclear exactly what that means apart from having grey hair and being Of A Certain Age.

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President’s View

by Chris Beagle

Envisioning our Future For any successful non-profit organization, the strategic plan is an integral tool for refining its mission and allocating resources.

This summer, the CAMP Rehoboth Board of Directors—in concert with Interim Executive Director Murray Archibald and the staff, and guided by qualified outside consultants—have commenced a new strategic planning initiative.

Our last such plan was undertaken in 2015. With the passing of our co-founder and longtime Executive Director, Steve Elkins, the current work becomes the first step in our Succession Plan, approved in 2013, and includes a complete organizational and staffing analysis. How do our strategies support our mission?

What resources and leadership do we need?

Given the magnitude and importance of this endeavor, the Long Range Planning (LRP) Committee (consisting of myself, Interim Executive Director and co-founder Murray Archibald, Board Vice President Leslie Sinclair, and longtime supporter Sondra Arkin), researched and proposed the hiring of an outside consultant to guide us in this critical process.

With unanimous Board approval, we contracted with the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement (DANA). As stated in their proposal, “DANA believes strategic plans include not only mission, vision, values, and strategic goals, but also an operating plan that supports achievement.”

Included in the DANA proposal is a multi-phased, six-to-seven month plan, with heavy emphasis on stakeholder and community input. In Phase One, the board was tasked with reviewing progress on our last strategic plan by reflecting on areas believed to be important to keep, as well as areas which may need to change or end.

With Phase One now complete, we are currently undertaking

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Phase Two, aimed at stakeholder input and market assessment. This phase began with an initial series of one-on-one, confidential interviews, conducted by DANA, with a number of key staff, board members, and other stakeholders identified by the LRP Committee. This effort then expanded into several focus groups comprising approximately two dozen individuals from a wide array of demographic and representative segments of our community.

The final part of stakeholder input brings even more people into one room to gather input. If you haven’t participated in one of the interviews or focus groups, we invite you to the Community Discussion, Saturday, September 29, in the Community Center. Go to Featured Events on the CAMP Rehoboth website to RSVP for the Community Meeting. Space is limited, and RSVP is required.

Looking ahead, Phase Three will evaluate CAMP’s business model to understand organizational strengths, the degree to which our various program areas support the mission, and financial sustainability. With insights gathered, DANA will then facilitate focused sessions with the board and key staff and stakeholders in Phase Four, followed by a quantitative survey to the broader CAMP Rehoboth membership, inviting input on ideas generated from the previous phases.

At the conclusion, the LRP Committee will work with DANA to develop the formal Strategic Operating Plan to support the mission and vision of CAMP Rehoboth. 2018 has been a year of great transition for the organization, and it is genuinely heartwarming to have everyone pull together to envision our future and to support our mission of “creating a more positive” Rehoboth. ▼

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EVENT REGISTRATION FEES 5K RUN, 1 MILE WALK, OR 1/2 MILE SWIM Pre-Registration (July 1 –August 15) $35 Race weekend (August 16 –26) $40 BIATHLON (SWIM-RUN) Pre-Registration (July 1 – August 15) $40 Race weekend (August 16 –26) $45 SLEEPWALKER REGISTRATION OPTION Donate. if you’d rather stay in bed and dream about running, no sweat. Contribute $30 to the good work of CAMP Rehoboth Community Center.

Sleepwalkers are invited to come by to cheer on the runners and join us for a great afterparty! (includes t-shirt) $5 GUESTS if you bring a guest who will enjoy the food and festivities, include $5 per guest (please provide the name of your guest, and arrive early to receive a stamp).

If you are feeling generous, register as a sleep walker for $30, and your donation will go to CAMP Rehoboth, or encourage your guest to do the one mile walk and get a t-shirt—then you will both feel accomplished! (T-shirt not included with $5 donation)

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CAMP News CROP Serves Sustenance and Love

by Debbie Woods

The Rehoboth Beach area is fortunate to have many residents and businesses graciously donating food to various organizations. Then the CAMP Rehoboth Outreach Program (CROP) partners with others in the community to pick up the ball and play an important part in taking the next step towards serving sustenance—and love—to those in need in the community.

Recently a team of 12 CROP volunteers met at the Food Bank of Delaware in Milford. They made quick work of sorting some non-food items, then got to work sorting and packing a few mountains of donated food items for further distribution throughout Delaware.

The Food Bank’s mission is to provide nutritious foods to Delawareans in need and facilitate long-term solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty through community education and advocacy. The Food Bank distributes food through a network of 536 hunger relief partners, including food closets, soup kitchens, shelters, daycares, schools, and other non-profits. Last year, the Food Bank received over 9 million pounds of food, with 1.5 million pounds distributed to Sussex County.

Having CROP volunteers participate along with others in the community furthers the work of CAMP Rehoboth by uniting individuals and groups in creating a better community.

But CROP wasn’t yet finished serving love! Volunteers also cooked and served a meal to international students at a dinner hosted weekly at Epworth United Methodist Church. CROP’s involvement with the program, which Epworth runs in conjunction with the International Student Outreach Program (ISOP), gave regular weekly volunteers from Epworth a much-needed break.

ISOP’s mission is to create a hospitable community that welcomes and provides a safe environment for international students by offering meals, transportation, emergency assistance, and fellowship, as well as promoting cultural understanding. Weekly dinners are held at Epworth on Tuesdays all summer. This project also provides an opportunity for interaction among young people from many different countries.

Epworth served 2,800 meals in 2017 and amassed 3,800 volunteer hours in the process.

CROP plays an important role in the community, along with so many other individuals and organizations who all come together to serve love! ▼ Debbie is an active volunteer with CAMP Rehoboth and also serves on the Membership Committee. She has lived full time in Rehoboth since 2009, when she retired after a long career in the Federal Government.

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Bear Weekend is September 20-23 An amazing roster of events and entertainment is planned for the 4th Annual Rehoboth Beach Bear Weekend September 20-23 with tickets at RehobothBeachBears.com. Bears and their admirers can get their paws on weekend passes ($115) or individual tickets.

The Bear Weekend events include a pre-weekend Wednesday night dinner at Mariachi’s Restaurant (not included in weekend pass), a TAILgate dance party, a beach party at Gordon’s Pond in Cape Henlopen State Park, a show by stand-up comic ANT, and a closing party on Sunday at the Purple Parrot. Plus, there are pub crawls, bear happy hours, and more.

In addition to all of the parties, meals, and entertainment, there will be an art exhibit called Scratched at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. Especially for Bear Weekend, this very “beary” art show will feature works by area artists depicting the bear/cub community. The show will be on display September 2-25, with a public reception Saturday, September 22, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. On Sunday, September 23, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., there is a Mimosa brunch at CAMP Rehoboth exclusively for attendees of Bear Weekend.

The Rehoboth Beach Bear Weekend in not just for fun—it’s a charity fundraising event as well. Last year organizers were able to get their paws on over $8,500 for local charities, thanks to the weekend attendees and sponsors. Funds raised have been distributed to the area’s Harry K Foundation, the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Society, CAMP Rehoboth, The Delaware Humane Association, and the Cape Henlopen High School Gay-Straight Alliance Scholarship Fund.

The Rehoboth Beach Bears is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social organization with an active group of bears. In addition to the annual weekend, the Rehoboth Beach Bears offer year-round events for the bear community, including a FURst Friday of each month. This Bear Happy Hour is also in its 4th year, attended by dozens of bears of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Bear admirers welcome.

Weekend pass holders get a T-shirt, a tote bag, a mimosa at the Sunday closing party, and a wide selection of discounts from merchants and restaurants all over downtown Rehoboth. ▼

Girl Scouts Honor Fay Jacobs September 26 Each year, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay honors a woman who has prominently served as a role model for Girl Scouts and all young women. This year they celebrate as their Woman of Distinction Fay Jacobs on September 26 at The Clubhouse at Baywood.

There will be a book signing at 11:30 a.m. followed by a luncheon 12:30-2:00 p.m. Tickets are $75 per person and available online at bit.ly/scwod18. Please RSVP by September 12. ▼

Reunion Concert September 21: Cris Williamson, Barbara Higbie and Teresa Trull A mighty trio of women’s music superstars is headed to Rehoboth for a musical reunion—and this is their only local stop on the tour.

Legendary performers Cris Williamson, Barbara Higbie, and Teresa Trull, presented by CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST, will be on stage in Rehoboth for one performance only on September 21 at Epworth Church.

It’s sure to be an evening of memories, rollicking song, and friendship as they perform solo and together. It’s a blast from the past with 70s and 80s music, plus some of what the musicians have been up to lately.

Decades before women had any real access to the music industry, Cris Williamson was busy challenging the very structure of popular music. In 1975, the twenty-something former school teacher recorded “The Changer and the Changed” for her brainchild, Olivia Records, the first womanowned woman-focused record company in the country.

Williamson’s music and voice quickly became an essential part of the soundtrack of a movement, and cornerstone of what would become known as “women’s music.” It was a sound created, performed, and marketed specifically for and by women. Her career includes 32 albums and three sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. She continues to tour the acoustic circuit, adding new material all the time.

Barbara Higbie is a piano and violin virtuoso, a performer, and a songwriter who combines technical brilliance with the pure joy of playing. Her unique compositions weave together elements of jazz, folk, and classical. She has performed on over 65 CDs, including a recent album by Carlos Santana.

Teresa Trull is a vocalist and musician as well as a recording producer. She has shared the stage with such artists as Sheila E., David Sanborn, and Joan Baez, and recorded half a dozen albums, including wonderful collaborations with Cris Williamson and Barbara Higbie. Together on two CDs and in person, Trull and Higbie bring high energy, enormous talent, and great chemistry to make vibrant and joyful music.

Tickets are $35 and available now at camprehoboth.com. ▼

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BARTENDER’S FAVORITE

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Steph is a longtime staple of the beach bar scene, having worked at the former Cloud 9, The Pond, and owned The Seafood Shack for nine years.

She has been with Diego’s since they opened in May 2018, and is thrilled that Diego’s has Ladies Night on Fridays. “Yappy hours” are Mondays through Fridays, 3-8 p.m.

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SAVE THE DATE!

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CAMP Stories The Thin Line Between Slow and Lazy

I downed my gin and tonic and in a frenzy began ripping away the ferns and yanking off the twining vines.

Free the boxwoods!

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cannot believe Labor Day is already upon us. As I walk around my Rehoboth garden I can only shake my head. The composter has burst its seams, and there are piles of compost and “undigested” yard cuttings everywhere. I’ve yet to deadhead the roses or the Shasta daisies, which means I won’t get a late-summer bloom from either. I never got around to putting in psychedelic-colored zinnias.

The coneflowers all died, and the petunias weren’t pinched properly. Slugs are eating my hostas.

Some regular readers of this column will know that I take great pride in my garden and in my gardening prowess and might be wondering what the hell happened, or better yet, what didn’t happen this summer? The fact of the matter is I fell under the spell of an eccentric Mississippi gardener and writer known as Felder Rushing.

Felder is the guru of the slow gardening movement, which takes its inspiration from the popular slow food movement. At its essence it’s an indictment on middle class uber-tidy, mow and blow yards.

Slow gardening is about getting your hands dirty and not stressing over everything being perfect. Do things at your own pace, says Felder, and don’t worry about what others are doing. Gardening should be fun, not a chore. Surely you can see the appeal in such a philosophy?

As I continued reading about Felder Rushing I learned he has a horticulture degree and has been published in numerous magazines, including National Geographic. He’s been featured in The New York Times and on HGTV. He hosts a weekly call-in show on NPR. That’s nothing to sneeze at.

Felder splits his time between Mississippi and northern England. He’s a fan of bottle trees and has even written a book about them. Mardi Gras beads he puts to use hanging on the branches of crape myrtle trees. He recommends adding a shot of vodka to the water when forcing paper white bulbs to bloom. The vodka stunts the growth of the stems, which tend to get leggy and topple over. And here’s the best: Felder has planted an herb and flower garden in the bed of his Ford pickup truck. It’s

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a living, moving advertisement for his work. Yes, he drives it. The plants are selected to tolerate heat, high winds, and dry conditions. What a character. I was hooked.

Excited to embrace the slow gardening approach, I quit obsessing about peeling off the shredding bark on my crape myrtles. Trim the hedge? Naw, its okay to get a little shaggy. To add some Felder-like whimsicality into the garden, I created sculptures of stacked rocks. Crab grass quit bothering me. As a practitioner of slow gardening, I’ve been sleeping later, going to the beach more, and taking an afternoon nap rather than worrying about what I wasn’t doing in the yard.

It was all going well, or so I thought….

One afternoon I was cutting a bunch of bosomy Limelight hydrangea flowers to take to a swank cocktail party when I noticed ferns and wild morning glory vines cozying up with my prized English boxwoods. Something snapped. They weren’t cuddling; they were strangling them. I downed my gin and tonic and in a frenzy began ripping away the ferns and yanking off the twining vines. Free the boxwoods! With bare hands I then pulled out all the prickly horsenettles, aka devil’s tomato, I’d let sprout up among my ginger lilies.

Later while removing the microscopic horsenettle thorns from my hands using the sticky side of duct tape, I realized I’d been lulled into a state of laziness and a false sense of complacency by Mr. Felder Rushing. I’d taken his que será, será philosophy way too literally and as a result had let my garden go.

But no more. I’ve tossed out Felder’s addictive Slow Gardening book and brought out the English gardening gloves. My Felco snips have been sharpened and oiled. For today I pull nettles; tomorrow I peel bark! ▼ Rich Barnett is the author of The Discreet Charms of a Bourgeois Beach Town, and Fun with Dick and James.

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CAMP Volunteer Spotlight

by Monica Parr

Pat Catanzariti Pat Catanzariti grew up in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, and went to Douglas College where she majored in Medical Technology. She worked at Cooper University Medical Center for six years until leaving for Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals. After a 28-year career there, she retired in October 2016. Most of those 28 years were spent in the laboratory environment. However, she went back to graduate school, received a Master’s in Clinical Pharmacology, and ended her career in Data Management.

She met the love her life, Carole Ramos, in 1990, and in 2004 they were married in Canada because they couldn’t wait for the United States “to figure it out.” Pat and Carole had a horse farm in the Pinelands of New Jersey for 17 years, selling it in 2011 to live by the water at Slaughter Beach.

Pat loves to play golf, fish, and be on the bay in her kayak. Mostly, she enjoys relaxing with Carole, their three cats— Ricky, Xena, and Gabby,—her family, and friends.

When did you start volunteering at CAMP Rehoboth?

At Sundance 2012, with my dear friend Jane Blue, working as a food server.

What events/activities have you been involved with as a volunteer?

Besides serving food at Sundance, I’ve been a volunteer at Broadwalk on the Boardwalk, a Health Advisory Committee member, and now, the Chair of the Volunteer Development Committee.

Of the many events held by CAMP Rehoboth, which is your favorite?

I enjoy Sundance and serving the food!

I like to have fun with the people and make them laugh when they are in line filling up their plates.

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What is your best volunteer memory?

As I get more involved with CAMP Rehoboth, it is not really a memory so much as I am amazed at the inner workings of the organization. It is truly fascinating to see the vision—“to be the Heart of the Community“—work so fluidly with our group of dedicated volunteers.

Name a childhood mentor or someone who influenced you while growing up.

I have two—my parents! My dad instilled a strong quality work ethic into me. My mom…still alive today at 92…is a real character. She has been a constant in my life, loving me through all my trials and tribulations. When you have a foundation like that, you feel there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

If you could go back to the age of 18, what do you know now that you wish you knew then?

That I was gay! I would still be a party girl and young at heart, but I would be more socially conscious to the issues and fight more for the rights of LGBTQ. Favorite season here at the beach?

I would have to say summer. Due to the weather, there are more chances to golf, fish, kayak, and have friends and family visit.

Do you have an LGBTQ hero? Who and why?

Many people have fought hard for so many and continue to do so every day. I wish I had the stamina and the guts that many of these people in the forefront have each and every day. I thank them wholeheartedly. With that said, I must mention my niece. She came out about eight years ago to a fairly “cold reception” from her parents. It was a very difficult time for her (and me) to go through. However, she remained strong in her convictions as both an adult and as a lesbian; she held her ground. She

loved her parents through the turmoil and eventually they came around. Today she is a beautiful woman in a loving relationship which her parents accept.

The LGBTQ community has made significant progress in the fight for equality. Did you expect to see this in your lifetime?

Yes, I did expect to see it because there are many smart and strong people fighting with us and for us. However, there is more to be done and we must continue to be diligent in who we put into political office…every vote counts.

Given the current political climate, are you concerned about the possible loss of rights for the LGBTQ community?

Most definitely yes! I am hoping that this November shows a strong shift towards more Democrats in the Senate and House.

Best year of your life and why?

I haven’t lived it yet! Every year gets better and better from the last.

Favorite holiday?

Christmas, because it is a time when all of my extended Italian family gets together for the seven fish dinner in my Mom’s basement. I also love all of the houses decorated inside and out…oh, and the parties!

What advice would you give to the younger LGBTQ community?

Keep fighting for what you believe in and never give up because our rights can be taken away in a heartbeat. Don’t take anything for granted.

How long have you been coming to Rehoboth?

I have been coming to Rehoboth since the late 90s when our dear friends Styk

As I get more involved with CAMP Rehoboth...

I am amazed at the inner workings of the organization. It is truly fascinating to see the vision­—“To Be the Heart of the Community“— work so fluidly with our group of dedicated volunteers. and Remy bought their first place here and we would come and visit. Always a great time!

Since you began coming to Rehoboth, name the biggest change(s) you’ve seen.

I know that most folks say the traffic, hence why we live out in Slaughter Beach. But I think my biggest concern is with all the new developments and people moving here. I just hope that our Baltimore Avenue remains the “gay” mecca that we enjoy walking down regardless of the season. I would love to see it filled with more gay-owned, gay-friendly restaurants, bars and shops.

Name three events that have shaped your life to where it is today.

Having a strong family, meeting Carole, and my career at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Favorite U.S. city and why?

New York City because there is always so much to do and see. It truly is the city that never sleeps.

What are you most thankful for?

I am most thankful for Carole and our beautiful home here in Delaware. She makes it and our life together very special every day.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Jane Blue for introducing you to CAMP Rehoboth. Thank you for your support, Pat, and the time you spend helping at events, and for volunteering on committees at CAMP Rehoboth. We hope that you will continue to volunteer and be a part of the CAMP Rehoboth family.▼ Project1_Layout 1 4/1/2018 4:49 PM Page 1

thank you to all the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center Volunteers for the period: August 3 – August 18.

COMMUNITY CENTER

Sondra Arkin Bud Beehler David Carder Ron Childress Shelley Couch Max Dick Ann Evans Corky Fitzpatrick Kathy Fitzpatrick Muriel Hogan Jack Morrison Natalie Moss Patricia Stiles Russell Stiles

CAMP MAINTENANCE Eric Korpon

BACHELOR AUCTION

Chris Beagle Mike DeFlavia Max Dick Eric Engelhart Jordan Gipple Nick Green James Hoffman Steve Hoult Scott Kroupa Stephen Manos Dan Marone Rich Norcross Mark Purpura Robert Avery Wilson

DDOA RECEPTION Chris Beagle Shelley Couch Eric Engelhart Jordan Gipple Leslie Sinclair Patricia Stiles Kathy Wiz Debbie Woods

LETTERS MAILING TEAM Andy Brangenberg David Carder David Hagelin Nancy Hewish Grant Kingswell Vickie Martina Fran Sneider Russell Stiles Linda Yingst

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

Carolyn Ortwein Kim Schilpp Diane Scobey Ed Shockley Frank Shockley Theresa Shockley Barb Thompson Jeffrey Trunzo Evie Simmons Elva Weininger George Yaksic

VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Dusty Abshire Pat Catanzariti Donna Dolce Jaye Laszcynski Michael Safina Angie Strano Leslie Sinclair

WOMEN’S FEST COMMITTEE

Jane Blue Don Crowl Ann Evans Glen Pruitt Debbie Woods

RAINBOW THUMB CLUB Chris Bowers Carol Brice Linda DeFeo Karen DeSantis Ward Ellinger Monica Fleischmann

Dottie Cirelli Fay Jacobs Susan Jimenez Nancy Hewish Pam Kozey Margie Moore Rebecca Moscoso Gail Tannenbaum Kathy Wiz

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At the Historic Lewes Farmers Market you’ll find heirloom tomatoes, lavender honey, freshly-laid eggs, lots of lettuces, juicy peaches, and best of all – community.

Join us at market

SATURDAY MARKET AT GEORGE H.P. SMITH PARK May 5–September 29, 2018 • 8am –12pm Johnson & Dupont Aves., Lewes, DE

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Eating Out

by Fay Jacobs

Dogfish Head Sonic Archeology, Distilling It Down

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would love to have been alive during prohibition. According to the new Dogfish Head Distillery Tour, they had so much fun back then. In the speakeasy days, there were backroom bars, and special boating parties where you went out to the 12-mile limit, to international waters, where booze was legal again—very much like a lot of gambling boats do today.

So how did I learn all this? I took the tour, in downtown Rehoboth, at the new distillery behind Chesapeake & Maine and the Dogfish Brew Pub on Rehoboth Avenue. It’s a Distology Experience, meaning the art of cocktail innovation as a means of influencing distillation.

Dogfish Head powers that be admit they made the word up. But whether you are a science geek, somebody fascinated by ingenuity, a Dogfish brew fan, or just a fan of really excellent cocktails, the tour is a delight.

We started at the bar at Chesapeake & Maine on a rainy Saturday, hearing about (and sampling) the new Sonic Archeology bottled beverage—officially called a prohibition inspired cocktail. It’s a blend of whiskey, rum, and apple brandy, plus honey, lemon, and pomegranate juice. It looks a little like punch and packs a big one.

Lead Mixologist Rob Bagley then took us on a fascinating tour of the complex distillery process, explaining how alcohol is stripped from beer-making liquid into raw alcohol that will become vodka, whiskey, gin, etc. There is sparkling new machinery for this distilling process at the small research and development distillery installation downtown. The science behind the process is as interesting as the eventual result—brews and liquors pumped directly into taps at the downtown brew pub.

It takes a combination of distilling and culinary science to get these bottled cocktails to market. Knowing the complexity of the process, these beverages are made for slow sipping—so you can think about their amazing journey.

I learned that vodka is all about purity. It’s 90 percent alcohol, whereas rum and other spirits are 75 percent alcohol, with flavors and color added. Looking at the bottles of liquid,

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you can understand how difficult it is to make the purest, clear vodka and mix the flavors for the other spirits.

One cool facet of the backstage tour was the Bride of Frankenstein Still. Yes, that’s what it is, just like moonshine from the old days. The original Frankenstein Still was Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione’s cobbled together first try at distilling liquor. From that came this new copper wonder, with a process so multifaceted it’s hard to believe that Bonnie’s great grandpa was able to do it deep in the woods, away from Grannie’s watchful eyes.

But seriously, this machine and the description of how it works is a mesmerizing part of the tour.

But by far, my favorite part of this Saturday experience was the handson, do-it-yourself mixing of a 750 ml bottle of the Sonic Archeology cocktail.

Each of us in the group got to be a mixologist, starting with the embossed Dogfish Head bottle, adding whiskey, rum, brandy, and then the juices to make our own cocktail in a bottle. We got to label it and add our name as mixologist; the bottle, along with an embossed Dogfish Head snifter, was one hefty and welcome souvenir of the whole distillery experience.

Check out this tour and all the other off-centered tours offered by this brewery and distillery team. Let’s face it: Dogfish Head is now a national and international brewing and marketing phenomenon. And its roots are here in Rehoboth. We are so lucky to have this cool company in our midst.

So get the details at Dogfish.com. But be warned, they make you give your birthdate before they let you into the web site. I was so exhausted from scrolling to my birth year, I would have welcomed some Sonic Archeology when I was done.▼ Fay Jacobs is an author of five published memoirs. Her newest is Fried & Convicted: Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. As a humorist, she’s touring with her show Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay. See www.fayjacobs.com

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FUN FACT When River’s mum was taken in at a shelter, they didn’t know she was pregnant. This three month old Great Dane, one of her litter of 12, already weighs in at 60 pounds. The grandpuppie of Steven and Sandy, River was visiting Rehoboth in July from Pennsylvania and loved the treats at Salty Paws.

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R E H OB OT H RETAI L SHOPS All Dried Up, 149 Rehoboth Avenue, Suite 6b..............484-667-7122 Atlantic Jewelry, 313 S. Boardwalk...............................302-226-0675 Beach Essentials, 33 Baltimore Ave..............................302-227-5210 Critter Beach, 156 Rehoboth Ave..................................302-226-2690 Elegant Slumming, 33 Baltimore Ave............................302-227-5551 Gallery 50, 50 Wilmington Ave......................................302-227-2050 Gidget’s Gadgets, 123 Rehoboth Ave...........................302-227-3959 Mod Cottage, 247A Rehoboth Ave...............................302-227-7277 New Wave Spas, 20660 Coastal Hwy...........................302-227-8484 Pelican Loft, 149 Rehoboth Ave....................................302-226-5080 M.G.T. & Company, 39 Baltimore Ave............................302-567-5976 Rehoboth Breeze, 117 Rehoboth Ave...........................302-226-5720 Salty Paws, 149 Rehoboth Avenue, Suite 6a................484-667-7122 Shademakers, 33 Baltimore Ave...................................302-226-2222 Sterling Optical, 19287 Miller Rd, Unit 12....................302-226-8800 The Linen Outlet, 19269 Coastal Hwy..........................302-727-5362 Unfinished Business, Rt. 1 behind Panera Bread.........302-645-8700 Ward Ellinger Gallery, 39 Baltimore Ave.......................302-227-2710 Wooden Indian, Ltd., 25 Baltimore Ave.........................302-227-8331 One Day At A Time Gifts, 46-B Baltimore Ave...............302-212-5632

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At Melissa’s B&B, 36 Delaware Ave..............................302-227-7504 Atlantic Sands Hotel, Boardwalk & Baltimore Ave........302-227-2511 Atlantis Inn, 154 Rehoboth Ave.....................................302-227-9446 Breakers Hotel, 105 2nd St & Baltimore Ave................302-227-6688 Canalside Inn, 34 6th St................................................866-412-2625 Rehoboth Guest House, 40 Maryland Ave....................302-227-4117 Sea ‘n Stars Guest Suites, 44 Delaware Ave.................302-226-2742 The Shore Inn, 37239 Rehoboth Ave Ext......................302-227-8487 Summer Place Hotel, First St & Olive Ave......................302-226-0766

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S ERVIC ES AT T HE B EAC H AUTOMOBILE SALES & SERVICE L1 Auto Gallery, 1144 Savannah Rd., Lewes.....................302-645-5353 75 Luxury Motors, 20575 Coastal Hwy..............................302-226-2100 BUILDING/CLEANING/REMODELING/LANDSCAPING •• A.G. Renovations...........................................................302-947-4096 96 Boardwalk Builders, behind Big Fish Grill.....................302-227-5754 •• DryZone.........................................................................866-771-9658 •• Mason Companies.........................................................302-227-2750 •• Randy’s Custom Window Treatments............................302-226-3244 CHURCHES/SYNAGOGUES 2 All Saints Episcopal, 18 Olive Ave.................................302-227-7202 98 Epworth UMC 19285 Holland Glade Rd........................302-227-7743 112 M.C.C. of Rehoboth, 19369 Plantation Rd....................302-645-4945 93 Seaside Jewish Community, Holland Glade Rd............302-226-8977 •• Unitarian Universalist, 30486 Lewes-G’Town Hwy ......302-313-5838 •• Unity of Rehoboth, 98 Rudder Rd., Millsboro...............717-579-2612 24 Westminster Presbyterian, King Charles Ave................302-227-2109 COUNSELING/THERAPY/LIFE COACH •• Dr. Michael Hurd, Rehoboth Beach...............................302-227-2829 83 Kevin J. Bliss, Personal/Professional Coaching.............302-754-1954

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DOCTORS/DENTISTS/REHAB/HOME CARE L4 Beebe Healthcare, 26744 J.J. Williams Hwy, Lewes....302-645-3300 101 Curtis Leciejewski, DDS.................................................302-226-7960 L5 Griswold Home Care, 16698 Kings Hwy, #D, Lewes....302-644-6990 •• Interim Healthcare, 17298 Coastal Hwy, Lewes...........302-322-2743 105 Shore Community Medical, 18947 JJ Williams Hwy....302-827-4365 120 Steven B. Wright, D.M.D. & Bruce B. Wright, D.D.S.......302-645-6671 ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES •• DJ Nan...........................................................................240-593-7704 EVENT PLANNING/CATERING •• Big Fish Catering...........................................................302-226-5500 •• Flair................................................................................302-930-0709 •• Plate Catering................................................................302-644-1200 FINANCIAL SERVICES •• Bell Rock Capital, 19606 Coastal Hwy #101................302-227-7608.

•• Community Pride Financial............................................302-227-2939 97 County Bank, 19927 Shuttle Rd....................................302-226-9800 90 Fairway Mortgage, 37156 Rehoboth Ave Ext...............302-227-5626 •• Jenn Harpel, Morgan Stanley........................................302-644-6620 FLORISTS 89 Bayberry Flowers, 715 Rehoboth Ave..........................302-227-5725 96 Windsor’s Florist, 20326 Coastal Hwy..........................302-227-9481

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FUNERAL SERVICES •• McCrery & Harra............................................................302-478-2204 •• Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium.........................302-645-9520 HAIR SALONS/TATTOO & PIERCING 72 Bad Hair Day? 20 Lake Ave............................................302-227-HAIR 62 Beach Cuts, 214 Rehoboth Ave................................... 302-226-ROBB •• Salon Milton, 517 Chestnut St., Milton..........................302-684-1880 99 Gregory Meyers Hair Studio, 20245 Bay Vista Rd & Rt 1.................................................................................302-727-5331 INSURANCE 100 George Bunting, State Farm..........................................302-227-3891 109 Jeanine O’Donnell, State Farm......................................302-645-7283 109 Eric Blondin, State Farm................................................302-644-3276 LEGAL/ACCOUNTING/TRUST SERVICES 79 Lawson Firm, 402 Rehoboth Ave..................................302-226-3700 79 Morris James, 402 Rehoboth Ave.................................302-260-7290 •• Fuqua, Willard, Stevens, & Schab, PA, 26 The Circle, Georgetown...................................................................302-856-7777 MASSAGE THERAPY/FITNESS 72 Bad Hair Day? 20 Lake Ave............................................302-227-HAIR •• Jeffrey Socorso, LMT.....................................................302-227-0731 8 Konrad Noebel, LMT, 26 Baltimore Ave........................302-226-8833

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OTHER •• Ocean Boulevard Furniture, 18467 Coastal Hwy.........302-645-2626 PET SERVICES •• Parsell Pet Crematorium................................................302-645-7445 REAL ESTATE 77 Allen Jarmon, RE/MAX, 317 Rehoboth Ave...................302-227-4800 18 Bill Peiffer, Patterson Schwartz, 18958 Coastal Hwy, Suite C...................................................................302-703-6987 87 Chris Beagle, Berkshire Hathaway, 37230 Reh Ave.....302-227-6101 77 Debbie Reed Team, 319 Rehoboth Ave........................800-263-5648 •• Eric Atkins, Patterson-Schwartz Real Estate, 18958 Coastal Highway.........................................................................302-727-1456 108 Eva Monteagudo, Keller Williams Realty.......................862-588-1342 81 Jim McAlister, Mann & Sons, 414 Rehoboth Ave..........302-227-9477 18 John Black, Patterson Schwartz, 18958 Coastal Hwy, Suite C...................................................................302-703-6987 90 Karen Gustafson, Long & Foster, 37156 Reh Ave.........302-227-2541 87 Lana Warfield, Berkshire Hathaway, 37230 Reh Ave...302-227-6101

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Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, 16698 Kings Hwy................302-645-6664 Lingo Realty, 246 Rehoboth Ave...................................302-227-3883 McGuiness Group, 246 Rehoboth Ave..........................302-227-3883 Randy Mason/Shirley Kalvinsky, Lingo Realty...............302-227-3883 Sea Bova Associates, 20250 Coastal Hwy, #3.............302-227-1222 Steve Janosik, Maggio Shields, 37169 Reh Ave...........302-226-3770 Suzanne Landon, Lingo Realty, 246 Rehoboth Ave......302-227-3883 Thompson Communities...............................................302-450-8147 Troy Roberts, Mann & Sons, 414 Rehoboth Ave...........302-228-7422

TRAVEL & TRANSPORTATION 87 Accent On Travel, 37156 Rehoboth Ave.......................302-278-6100 28 Jolly Trolley, Rehoboth-Dewey Shuttle from Rehoboth Ave & Boardwalk. Call for schedule.........................................302-644-0400 POPULAR LGBTQ BEACHES Poodle Beach: south end of the Rehoboth Boardwalk Cape Henlopen State Park: Ocean Dr north to Cape Henlopen State Park.

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View Point

by Richard J. Rosendall

Rudy on a Ledge and Other Speculations FROM THE TIME COVER TO DEFENDING TRUMP IS A LONG WAY DOWN

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n late 2001, when then New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was chosen as Time’s Person of the Year, his cover photo shoot was done on the roof of what was once called the RCA Building, later the GE Building, still later the Comcast Building. This grand Art Deco widow of a skyscraper, passed from one well-heeled partner to the next like the Countess De Lave in George Cukor’s film The Women, is better known as 30 Rock, which must make the folks at Comcast feel like cucks, to use a term favored by trolls.

There Rudy stood, high above Rockefeller Plaza, when photographer Gregory Heisler, looking to create an iconic image, asked America’s Mayor to step up onto the parapet. Rudy was game, not to mention an opera lover with a drag fetish, so he got in touch with his inner Tosca and hopped onto the ledge.

Imagine if a sudden wind had kicked up as Hizzoner stood there grinning on the edge of oblivion with his back to lower Manhattan. In that awful event we would not now be able to marvel as he proffers his novel legal defenses of Trump from the couch at Fox and Friends across Sixth Avenue.

Instead of a horrifying plunge, Giuliani simply reverted to his familiar smallness. His intemperate attacks on the Justice Department—despite being a former federal prosecutor—and his unhinged rant at the 2016 Republican Convention suggest that his shining moment after the 2001 terrorist attacks was past retrieval. His harshness as mayor; his posthumous smear of unarmed Haitian Patrick Dorismond, who was shot by police in March 2000 after rebuffing an undercover drug sting; his callousness in informing his wife of their separation via television; and his bizarre attempt to remain in office past his term all suggest that his inspiring performance on 9/11 (which

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obscured his own mishandling of security concerns) was at best a decent interlude. Defending another bully is more consistent with his squalid record.

Rudy desperately tries to convince us not to believe our lying eyes. While his mad client takes credit for an economic turnaround actually led by his predecessor, and calms his nerves amid the Paul Manafort trial with a riff about rigged witch hunts, our nation clings to reality like someone on an out-of-control roller coaster.

You can find conspiracies everywhere with enough determination and credulity.

It is open season for mischief. As I write, Lawrence O’Donnell is at 30 Rock with the Empire State Building behind him, just like Rudy all those years ago. The QAnon conspiracy nuts have constructed wild narratives on less.

As a cable news viewer, I cannot decide whether I am happier with CNN reporter Jim Acosta rebuking Sarah Sanders over calling journalists enemies of the people, or with Jeff Flake gallivanting off to Zimbabwe when Mitch McConnell needed him in Washington to confirm right-wing judges. As an impenitent newspaper writer, I am wondering how I look in the glow of my iPad to the ICE police scanning through my blinds for undocumented immigrants.

You can find conspiracies everywhere with enough determination and credulity. Incidentally, does 3D printing of AR-15s count as a blow for freedom of the press?

Trump’s $12 billion bailout for farmers hit by his trade war is like a guy who steals your car, ties a big bow around the tires, and makes a gift of them to you. He gives himself a “10” for his hurricane response in Puerto Rico, which he barely recognizes as part of the United States. His EPA says rolling back greenhouse gas emission standards will save lives. We are in a golden age of gaslighting.

Meanwhile, Robert Mueller quietly continues his Russian investigation despite 45 saying he’s conflicted over a dispute involving golf club fees. You would think Trump makes things up.

Inhabiting one’s own reality can bring swift and brutal correction in the case of, say, someone high on drugs believing he can fly, or an executive ignoring an engineer’s safety concerns about a space shuttle rocket. The consequences for an inadvertent confession by tweet, or a fading attorney ineptly defending a charlatan, may take a bit longer. But they will surely come. A clown can’t dance on a ledge forever.▼ Richard J. Rosendall is a writer and activist who can be reached at rrosendall@me.com.

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Courage & Vision: Honoring S TEV E E L K INS

For over a quarter century, Steve epitomized the inclusive spirit of CAMP Rehoboth. We recognize that spirit and the indelible mark that Steve left on Delaware’s LGBTQ+ community by honoring him with the 2018 Kandler Award.

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by Eric W. Wahl

Painting the Town Red, Yellow, Orange, and More

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s it too soon to talk about autumn? I feel like it’s too soon, but this heat and humidity has me longing for cooler days and longer nights. So I’ve decided it’s a perfect time to talk about the upcoming season.

Autumn is just around the corner and that means so is apple cider, maple donuts, pumpkin pie, and of course the trees in their full glory. This is by far my favorite time of year. There is a crispness in the air, a scent of wood-burning camp fires, the rustling of fallen leaves underfoot, and rich, bold colors everywhere you look. The reason why leaves change their colors this time of year is complicated, and scientists still don’t fully understand each and every interaction that determines the best displays of colors. However, they do know that the pigments in the leaf, the longer nights, the type of plant, the cooler weather, as well as the amount of rainfall, all play a significant role.

All plants contain pigments in their leaves. Three of these pigments are very involved in the color changes of autumn. They are chlorophyll, which gives leaves their green color during the growing season; carotenoids, which provide yellows, oranges, and browns; and finally, anthocyanins, which produce reds and purples. Plants are chock-full of chlorophyll in spring and summer, capturing the sun’s rays and turning them into their own food. The levels of this pigment are so high, in fact, that it masks the other pigments in the leaves. As fall approaches, this process slows down and eventually stops altogether. This is when the other pigments, carotenoids and anthocyanins, become visible.

Other factors effecting autumn color are temperature and moisture. Since these can vary greatly from year to year, autumn tends to be like snowflakes in that no two are ever alike. Warm and sunny days followed by cool nights bring about the most vibrant colors. Carotenoids are always present in leaves and respond well to these conditions, so the yellows and golds seen in autumn are fairly consistent. Anthocyanins respond to bright sunlight in the beginning of the fall season.

This encourages sugar production in the leaves which in turn fosters the anthocyanin pigment and results in brilliant displays of scarlets and reds.

Furthermore, different trees display the same colors year after year due to their genetics. Oaks turn red, brown, or a russet color. Scarlet oak and northern red oak turn brilliant shades of red. Look for them locally along with willow oak, pin oak, and swamp white oak. We live in the pine-oak forest community, and play host to numerous species of oaks.

Hickories turn a golden bronze. They also drop their bounty this time of year.

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berries that are quickly devoured by our bird community.

Beeches turn a light tan color and actually hold onto their leaves the longest. You will most assuredly see their leaves flitting in the wind during the late autumn and winter months.

Just drive up and down Route 1 and look into the adjacent woodlands; standing next to the glistening hollies you will find the beeches.

Red maples are a brilliant scarlet in fall. Sugar maples— most famous in New England for their sugary sap—are hues of oranges and reds. Norway maples, an invasive in our region, turn a yellow color.

Aspens and birches turn a clear yellow and poplars are more golden. I find these to be the least constant year after year; their colors depend a lot on temperature and moisture availability.

Fothergilla is one of my favorites and it turns stunning shades of orange at this time of year. Since this is a shrub, it provides a lot of color at ground level.

Bark also contributes to the colors of fall. Red twig dogwood pop in the landscape with their bright red stems (there is a yellow variety, too). River birch trees have a wonderful peeling bark that shows off its pinkish hues. Some Japanese maples also have brilliant colored stems like those of the coral bark Japanese maple.

The sense of smell is also awakened in autumn.

Some leaves like those of the katsura give off a sweet smell of warm sugar when walked upon. I fondly remember taking a stroll on my college campus and slightly crushing them underfoot. It smelled like someone was baking cookies—no joke. Witch hazel actually blooms in autumn right after its clear, yellow leaves drop; the blooms’ light, spicy fragrance is a marvelous surprise in the autumn garden.

These ingredients of color and scent, coupled with the time for harvesting our incredible local crops—it’s no wonder that this is my favorite season. So, as I sit here drenched in 97% humidity, sticking to my leather recliner and eating ice cream like it’s my job, I am imagining enjoying a chilly evening in front of a fire pit, sipping my hot cider, and eating some apple dumplings. The colors and scents of autumn last for only a short while, but during those spectacular weeks, nature gives us a show we won’t soon forget. ▼ Eric W. Wahl, RLA is a landscape architect at Element Design Group and president of the Delaware Native Plant Society.

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Millennial Times

by James Adam Smith

AGREEING TO DISAGREE M

y father is a Trump supporter, and I love him “Why are you reading this?” anyway.

“I like to know all sides.”

Wait. Before you stop reading, you should know From my point of view, his life seems contrathat when it comes to politics, I disagree with him dictory. As far as I know, he has zero conservative on pretty much everything: gun control, healthcare, friends. Quite the opposite: one of his best friends climate change, you name it. is a black, lesbian Marxist. He has been openly gay For some reason, he has it in his mind that I’m a for decades. He lived in San Francisco, New York, communist, even though I’m not. He calls me Pinko. and DC through the 60s, 70s, and 80s. He was “Pinko, they mentioned your friend Liz Warren on friends with Harvey Milk, Sylvester, and Marsha P. Fox News tonight.”

Johnson. I’ve realized that he “I’m not a communist.” enjoys being around people “Okay, Pinko.” who completely disagree with He was friends with Harvey To make things more comhim; otherwise, he gets bored.

Milk, Sylvester, and Marsha P. plicated, he is a Christian (the So that’s what we do. We non-church going kind), and I disagree. Most of the time.

Johnson. I’ve realized that he am a Buddhist (the non-temAnd it works, even though it enjoys being around people ple going kind). We have the shouldn’t. who completely disagree with non-going in common.

I honestly have no idea In a way, he has become how he became a Trump suphim; otherwise, he gets bored. my greatest teacher. porter, but he has helped me He and his partner adrealize that having an LGBTQ opted me as a teenager and identity does not necessarhelped me get into college. He told me to always ily imply having a certain political identity. I have keep an open mind. “If you want to know about learned to respect this diversity, and this respect religion, go to all kinds of services.” In the same has not compromised my own political beliefs. month, he took me to MCC of Greater Dallas, If anything, our differences have brought us an LGBTQ-friendly church, and to evangelist closer together. Our discussion of politics has Jimmy Swaggart’s Family Worship Center become a battle of wits seasoned with statistics, in Baton Rouge. “Why did you bring headlines, and history. He has challenged me and me here?” I complained, “this man is taught me to stand my ground. preaching about hell.”

A decade ago, he was diagnosed with Parkin“Try to keep an open mind. Find son’s disease. Fighting the loss of his mobility, he out why people believe what they entered a PhD program at Georgetown University. do before you react.”

For a while, I drove him to class and pushed his One of my great challenges wheelchair over brick sidewalks while he yelled at in life has been reacting to all the me for going too fast. I drove to DC to visit him in crazy sh%# he says without going the hospital after he dropped his classes. I drove off the deep end. to the nursing home after he fell in the shower, and He tells me, “If you’re going visited as he completed physical therapy. to take that position, then you’d These days he’s back home and doing well. better do your homework and Next time I visit him, I’m sure we’ll find someknow what you’re talking about thing to argue about. We’ve realized our relationbecause right now you clearly ship is more valuable than our political beliefs. In an don’t.” age of toxic, political divisions, respect is golden.

He tells me, “If you watch MSNDisagreement, paradoxical as it may seem, has BC, you should also watch Fox News....If become our signature form of love. ▼ you read the New York Times, you should also read the Wall Street Journal.”

One day I found a book on his nightstand: James Adams Smith works as an English tutor at Delaware Technical & Community College and is studying to A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory by become an occupational therapist. You can reach him at Nikki Sullivan.

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Out & Proud

by Stefani Deoul

What’s Your Read for Dog Days?

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o here we are, entering “the dog days of summer,” those devastatingly hot days of late August, when even our dogs just lay, belly-to-tile-floors, their tongues hanging out, slobbering and panting. When barking at the mailman is just too much effort—forget chasing him.

That association of panting dogs and sweltering days, though, is a bit of a misnomer, perhaps deriving from a five-hundred year-old translation from Latin to English. The original dog days referred to the dog star, Sirius, and its position in the heavens. To the Greeks and Romans, dog days occurred around the day Sirius appeared to rise just before the sun, in late July. They referred to these days as the hottest time of the year, a period that could bring fever, or even catastrophe.

Which, like many local rituals based upon latitude, longitude, and all sorts of other curiosities, only works for people of a specific geographic area.

And yet the expression lives on.

Maybe because it fits so well, descriptively.

But let us not wallow on tile floors. Let’s get out our sun block, our towels, umbrellas, and coolers. Pack up our beverages, sammies, chips, and fruit, and head out to the Girl’s Beach at Gordon’s Pond.

Quick aside…why do the boys get Poodle Beach while we get a location identified by a nearby pond?

Why can’t we be Golden Beach, or Bulldog Beach (and no, with apologies to Fay Jacobs, not Schnauzer Beach), or something a little hipper, a little more t-shirt friendly, than the Girl’s Beach at Gordon’s Pond?

I know. I hear you. It’s getting hotter by the minute. Folding chair? Check. Hat? Check. Sunglasses? Check. Book? Yes, book! Who goes to the beach without a book to read?! Especially during our dog days of summer, which means less fun in the sun and more sit in the shade.

So, no. No picking a romance. It is too hot, too steamy, and too icky (technical term) for a romance on the sand. Remember, you’re already hot and bothered; you don’t need help. At least, not that kind of help.

But another kind of help? Well, that would be my pleasure. I will offer up a baker’s half-dozen (aka six plus one) suggestions.

I hope each author leads you to three more.

I shall begin with the Grand Master of them all, Ellen Hart. And I’m not being facetious, here. Ellen Hart is the first openly LGBT writer (whose lead character, Jane Lawless, is also a lesbian) to be named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

Her peers include Agatha Christie, John le Carre, Stephen King, and P.D. James. She’s written more than thirty novels, spanning both the Jane Lawless series and the Sophie Greenway

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series, so there’s no time like the present to get started.

Already read Ellen? Then you’re due for some chill time with the always hot Jean Redmann, aka J.M. Redmann, and her New Orleans based, hard-boiled, lesbian private eye, Michele “Micky” Knight. Knight has sweltered, swaggered, and sleuthed her way to six Lambda Literary Award Nominations (out of nine books), and three wins!

How about a little noir with that pinot? Ann Aptaker’s Cantor Gold series might be perfect for you. This Lambda-winning series is set in 1949 New York City, and features art smuggler, dapper dyke-about-town, Cantor Gold. Journey back through time to an era where word-imagery is as masterfully painted as the art Cantor smuggles. Aptaker’s literary palette stretches from NY’s nastiest underbellies to its most elegant environs.

Lambda Finalist Cheryl Head brings us smart, savvy, swaggering, Motor City private eye Charlene “Charlie” Mack. Cheryl gets bonus kudos for occasionally being spotted at Gordon’s Pond.

So if you’re reading Bury Me When I’m Dead or Wake Me When It’s Over, and Cheryl walks by, you could wind up with a personalized signed copy, which would be kind of awesome.

Now if those four represent our detective/ private eye hero and anti-hero choices, and that’s not your mystery cup-of-tea, what’s a girl to do? It’s okay. I got you covered.

We’ll go a bit more thriller, and I’ll even give you one with a local-ish flavor: Ann McMan’s Dust. It’s a political thriller set in Delaware (sadly, not at the beach) that feels kind of timely. It’s a rare mystery from one of lesbian fiction’s most awarded authors— and if you’re still slightly irked that I said, “no romance,” there’s an element or two in here for you in a kind of familiar surrounding.

Lillian Byrd is Elizabeth Sims’ Lambda Award winning series, with five titles for your reading pleasure. Lillian is a small-time reporter with a flair for making big-time mistakes, so it’s no wonder the first book is titled, Holy Hell.

And finally, the “plus one” is…Alison R. Solomon’s first book—Timing Is Everything—in her brand new, suspense-filled series. The book, which might make all you snowbirds out there very happy, is set in Gulfport, Florida.

So stay shaded. And hydrated. And remember the dog days give way to sweater weather, and fires, and many fine times for romance—literary or otherwise.▼ Stefani Deoul is a television producer and author of the award-winning YA mystery On a LARP

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Meet the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund and Its New Executive Director

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he Delaware Valley Legacy Fund (DVLF), now in its 25th year, is an organization which fosters philanthropy and helps meet the emerging needs of the Greater Philadelphia region’s LGBTQ community.

Over the course of its history, it has provided about $1 million in support for organizations working in areas such as health and social services, arts and culture, education and humanities, and legal and civil rights.

In an effort to spread word of its work and to have a presence in Rehoboth Beach, DVLF plans to be at the CAMP Rehoboth Block Party in October. The organization has just named a new executive director, Juan Franco, and looks forward to connecting with CAMP Rehoboth and the LGBTQ community at the beach.

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“We are thrilled to have Juan on board,” said Fernando Gonzalez, board president. “He has a track record of relationship-building and results. We know that he will play a key role in fostering philanthropy by and for our diverse and vibrant LGBTQ community in the years ahead.”

Professionally, Franco has worked most recently for Temple University’s School of Social Work on HIV prevention and communications strategies in underserved Latinx and other communities. This involved building relationships with the Philadelphia Office of LGBTQ Affairs, William Way Community Center, and many other nonprofits and businesses.

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Intentionally Inclusive

by Wesley Combs

Labels—We Can’t Live Without Them... or With Them

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e all do it. Upon meeting someone new, we immediately size up the other person even before we say a single word to each other. Based on previous experiences each of us has throughout our life, the brain processes information our eyes collect such as physical characteristics (gender, race, height, weight), attire, and body language (facial expression, mannerisms) to determine if the person is friend or foe.

In fact, labeling others is an evolutionary skill. Before civilization, the difference between life or death often depended on how quickly we were able to determine whether strangers encountered in the forest could be of assistance, be a potential mate, or could harm us. Over time, the brain learns who to trust and who to avoid at all costs.

That’s why you may get a warm feeling inside when encountering people that look like your mom or become anxious if they resemble a bully from high school.

However, there is evidence this is not a perfect system; research shows many of us are unaware of the quick judgements our brains make on our behalf reflecting our cultural and social experiences. These unconscious biases unknowingly help us to form opinions about others. By now we know the negative ramifications that occur when we jump to conclusions about people based on their skin color or gender.

As someone whose career is focused on enabling equity and opportunity for others, I know what can happen when we fail to realize our judgements of others are based on the unconscious biases. Being gay, this happens to me all the time.

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard relatives or friends of my parents say, “You would have made a terrific parent.” Even though they may think this is a way of paying me a compliment about my potential parenting skills, I instead am left wondering if down deep they think gay men are not fit to be parents.

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But what happens when we as LGBTQ people make those who happen not to be LGBTQ but advocate on our behalf feel like they do not belong?

That’s exactly what happened to an acquaintance of mine named Bart who recently asked for my advice regarding his involvement with an LGBTQ nonprofit in our community.

To provide some context, I came to know Bart through our mutual support of this organization and soon learned he was a “straight ally.” This is a term used to describe someone who is not gay but actively supports LGBTQ people through intentional acts like attending LGBTQ events, voting for pro-LGBTQ candidates, and being an advocate for LGBTQ people when they hear something offensive.

While Bart has never doubted his friends were grateful for his support, he suspected those that knew him only as “Bart the ally” treated him differently.

Bart shared with me that when he volunteers, others who are LGBTQ introduce him by saying, “This is Bart... he is an ally.” My guess is that labeling Bart in this way was done with good intentions, perhaps as a way to minimize the likelihood of future awkward situations should others assume Bart was gay just because he supports the cause.

While Bart has never doubted his friends were grateful for his support, he suspected those that knew him only as “Bart the ally” treated him differently.

For example, comments from others when discussing LGBTQ civil rights

gave Bart the impression he could not possibly have a true understanding of the struggles gay men experienced because he was straight.

Bart could not understand why these gay people, who in the past themselves were made to feel like they mattered less just because of their sexual orientation, were doing the same thing to him. From where Bart sat, he believed it must be because he was straight. I asked Bart if he knew for sure this was how others viewed him, and he said no.

Bart is not alone when it comes to feeling uncomfortable in situations like this, especially in today’s politicallycharged and polarizing world. That’s why I strongly encourage people to step back and ask themselves why they feel the way they do in circumstances like this.

If Bart still felt uneasy about his relationship with the other volunteers after reflecting on the situation, the only way he will know for sure is by having a one-on-one conversation to see if his hunch is correct. Reaching out in a nonaccusatory way can serve to clear up any misunderstanding while at the same time raising awareness about why the gesture or statement made Bart feel that way.

For an organization like CAMP Rehoboth, which is moving into the next phase of its growth, it is always a good idea to take time and seek feedback from all stakeholders as to how it communicates internally and externally.

Keeping an open mind and being willing to do better ensures CAMP Rehoboth achieves its mission—creating a more inclusive community with room for all. ▼ Wesley Combs is a diversity and inclusion expert and a passionate social justice advocate. He is the founding Principal of Combs Advisory Services where he works with clients who share his values of enabling equity, equality, and opportunity in the workplace and the community.

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ames E. Yiaski, 54, devoted husband of David G. Gold, of West Goshen, PA, passed away suddenly on August 7, 2018. Born November 14, 1963 in Phoenixville, PA, He was a son of the late Barbara (Schutte) and Robert E. Yiaski.

A graduate of Phoenixville High School and Goldey-Beacom College, Jim worked for Maillie LLP for 32 years, and earned his CPA designation in 1988.

Jim was Kimberton Community Fair treasurer for 25 years, treasurer and a lifetime member of the Kimberton Fire Company Auxiliary, and past treasurer of the West Chester Area YMCA. In addition to his loving husband and his cat, Kati, Jim is survived by his brother, Robert W. (MaryEllen) Yiaski, of

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Kimberton; one uncle; several cousins; brothers and sisters-in-law; many nephews and a niece; and several grand nephews and nieces.

A funeral service was held on Monday, August 13, at the Campbell-Ennis-Klotzbach Funeral Home, Inc., Phoenixville, officiated by Deacon George Harmansky. Interment followed in the Coventryville Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in Jim’s memory to Kimberton Community Fair; the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia; the Kesher Israel Congregation, West Chester; or a charity of choice.

Condolences may be offered online at PhoenixvilleFuneralHome.com. ▼

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THIS PAGE 6) Nick Foley, Andrig Feshchenko, Matt Urban, John Wallden, and Rick James at Purple Parrot. 7) Emmalane Ewing, Jo Pokorny, Thom Pemberton, Melissa Clink, Jan Konesey, RB Commissioner Elect Pat Coluzzi, Edward Chrzanowski, Tony Burns, Sondra Arkin, Murray Archibald, Martha Carper, DE US Senator Tom Carper, RB Commissioner Elect Dick Byrne, Sherri Wright, DE Speaker of the House Pete Schwartzkoff, RB Commissioner Kathy McGuiness, RB Mayor Paul Kuhns, and RB Commissioner Lisa Schlosser, Rod Cook, Charlie Browne, John Newton, and Mowry Spencer at the Museum Beach Ball. 8) Jim Nolan, Guy Abernathy, Jerome Simpson, and Rob Virabel at Iguana Grill.

9) Michael Cohen, Mansie Lyer, Tony Burns, Adam Tyler, Rob Robertson, Terry Bickham, Casey Cudworth, Carlos Taylor, and Andy Bailey at Aqua.

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Out &About

by Eric C. Peterson

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n 1991, as a young, closeted-evento-myself college student, a group of friends and I visited The Magic Lantern Theatre, the only art-house cinema in Spokane, WA, to see a documentary that everyone had been talking about. It was a film called Paris Is Burning, and it was about the drag balls in Harlem.

In it, black and brown gay men and trans women led hard lives, to be sure.

But every weekend, they put their troubles away and walked the balls.

They served up “realness,” they threw “shade,” and they vogued ferociously. I had never seen anything like it. I didn’t see myself reflected in these stories (nor did I particularly want to), but I liked them.

It took almost three decades for stories like these to become fictionalized, but now we have FX Network’s Pose, a serialized ensemble about the black and brown gay men and trans women who defined much of LGBT culture back in the 1980s.

In the world of Pose, the dispossessed find families of their own, called Houses, led by Mothers who would adopt their Children and care for them in ways that their own mothers and fathers could not. The houses often live together, and mothers can be strict, but also caring. The lucky housemates find work behind counters and in department stores or nail salons; others sell drugs or turn tricks. Many are slowly (then quickly) dying of AIDS, and Ronald Reagan has barely mentioned the word.

The 80s were a dark time for LGBT people, but even within that oppressed community, trans women ranked the lowest. At several points in the first season of Pose, trans characters remark that they can make just about anyone in the world, even their fellow queers, feel superior by comparison. And so, they created an environment where they were celebrated as goddesses: the balls.

When walking a ball, achieving “realness” was the ultimate goal. And while this often took the form of poor people looking at home in designer

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clothes and trans women “passing” to the best of their ability, the new series has accomplished its realness behind the scenes.

Pose boasts the most trans actresses in its regular cast of any series in television history, and many episodes were written by trans memoirist and activist Janet Mock. The consulting producers feature several members of the legendary House of Xtravaganza, featured prominently in Paris Is Burning, as well as that film’s director, Jennie Livingston.

And yes, it feels like a soap opera sometimes. Ryan Murphy, who also brought us Glee, can’t resist a stirring-and-emotional-yet-completely-implausible speech every now and again, and some of the plot developments, particularly in the pilot episode, require a suspension of disbelief higher than these queens’ wigs.

And yet, the show also doesn’t shy away from many of the tough realities these characters lived through. Almost all were cruelly rejected by their families of origin, the streets were dangerous, friends were few, and death—usually in the form of a virus with no cure—was far more familiar to these youngsters than it had any right to be.

Angel…engages in an affair with a promising young businessman who works on Park Avenue for a certain real estate developer known for golden toilets.

Many of the performances are fantastic. Mj Rodriguez plays Blanca, a young trans woman who discovers that she is HIV-positive in the first episode.

Deciding she might as well pursue her dreams as quickly as possible, she moves out of the House of Abundance to form her own house. In every scene, she is as vulnerable or as fierce as the moment demands; at one point, a character describes Blanca as not being afraid to lead from the heart, and the same is true for Rodriguez. Indya Moore plays Angel, one of Blanca’s Children, who— in addition to occasional sex work— engages in an affair with a promising young businessman who works on Park Avenue for a certain real estate developer known for golden toilets.

With her sad eyes and wild hair, Moore plays Angel like an explosion of big dreams and bad choices, and the results are complex and heartbreaking.

Finally, there’s Tony winner Billy Porter as Pray Tell, the master of ceremonies of the ball, who frequently provides Blanca with a shoulder to cry on, but nurses his own tragedies as well. Pray Tell is the show’s embodiment of wisdom and kindness, but Porter never allows him to function merely as a symbol.

Not every performance reaches these heights, but as a firm believer in knowing our history, I urge people— especially queer people—to experience Pose for themselves. You might not see yourself reflected completely by these stories, nor may you particularly want to. But you’ll enjoy the trip down this glamorous but imperfect runway, and you’ll be ready for season two in 2019. ▼ Eric Peterson is a diversity and inclusion educator living in Washington D.C. and cohost of a weekly podcast about pop culture.

Visit him at poperationroom.com. And he wants you to know that all episodes of Pose are available on demand via the FXNow app.

Paris Is Burning is available on YouTube.

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CAMP Feature CAMP REHOBOTH CHORUS:

Just Can’t Stop the Beat!

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alking down Rehoboth’s Baltimore Avenue on a brisk fall evening (or a harsh winter one), music is often emanating from the various night spots on the avenue. But approaching the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, the music could very well be the swell of voices of the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus.

This fall, the 90 voices joining in song at CAMP Rehoboth will be hard at work rehearsing for their Presidents’ Day weekend concert coming in February 2019. For season 10, the chorus will present a retrospective of their first decade, calling it “Seasons of Love.” These seasons of love have led the chorus to what it is today.

CAMP Rehoboth Chorus traces its history back to 2009, when it was founded by Letters columnist Fay Jacobs as artistic director and singer/ musical educator Bill McManus as musical director. Doug Yetter took the reins, combining the two positions, in 2012.

CAMP Rehoboth’s vision is to “Create a More Positive” Rehoboth by reaching out to all, and the chorus is a diverse reflection of that mission. Doug underscores the sentiment when he declares, “What I love about the chorus is that it truly represents our community. We’re straight, we’re gay, we have married couples of every flavor. The name “Rehoboth” has been translated to mean “room for all” and that’s exactly how we operate.”` The chorus provides high-quality musical entertainment for diverse audiences throughout Delaware. This is no traditional chorus: no Brahms, no black gowns, no pearls, no tuxes. The wardLetters 98

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robe is more casual and the repertoire showcases popular music from various eras in a wide range of genres from jazz to contemporary rock ‘n’ roll and everything in between. The chorus presents music as a fun, shared experience for both singers and audiences. As Doug says, “We perform popular music with the hope of bringing our audiences concerts that entertain and enlighten.”

The task of putting together a musical program with many songs with a unifying theme can be daunting. It is hard work.

Doug explains that the chorus’s Music Committee meets throughout the year to discuss themes for future seasons and to research music that supports those themes. Then the full chorus is offered a selection of possibilities for the next season and votes for their favorite. When the theme has been selected, Doug and the Music Committee make a list of potential songs. Then Doug gets the task of turning their research into a concert.

No easy task. Over the course of three months, Doug listens to and looks at hundreds of songs and possible arrangements, groups numbers with similar attributes, and discerns which songs can stand alone and which work best as part of a larger medley. Then he begins writing arrangements for the music and finally, works with the chorus to create the finished product: a musical experience not found anywhere else in Sussex County.

And Doug is certainly up to the task.

His list of accomplishments is astounding, and his professionalism can be seen in every chorus activity. In May, he celebrated the 57th anniversary of his first piano lesson and has never looked back.

He has arranged hundreds of choral and instrumental pieces over the last 49 years—from pre-shows at dinner theatres to orchestrations for long-lost Broadway shows at City Center in New York. Over the years, he has been a performer, director, producer, and/or conductor for 237 shows. Local audiences will know him as co-founder of the Clear Space Theatre Company. He has composed off-Broadway musicals, operas, and hundreds of instrumental works, and as a teacher he has coached many students who have gone on to success on Broadway, in regional theater, and on national tours.

Doug is surrounded by experienced people as well. Accompanist David Zipse is a master of the piano who plays many different styles of music. He studied classical music for years, fell in love with jazz at an early age, and grew up listening to rock ‘n’ roll, so he is tailor-made for the wide range of musical genres offered up by the chorus. David is a popular performer in local restaurants and clubs and performs at the Rehoboth Jazz Festival.

Production assistants Larry Rosen and Barry Bugg have worked in theater and choral production for many years, including stints as production managers for the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC. This year, they face the prospect of staging the opening of the concert with a sense of how the chorus has grown over the years from 27 singers to the current 90-member chorus.

And finally, meet the singers themselves: They are gay and straight,

younger and older, and bring a variety of musical abilities to the group They represent varied professional and cultural backgrounds, and include educators, business owners, published authors, and artists. Many volunteer their talents to the music scene in Sussex County, and also volunteer their life skills to many local organizations. They are truly a diverse group that bands together at CAMP Rehoboth for the love of music.

What brings these volunteer choristers back year after year? Patti Magee, an alto and an original member of the chorus, echoes the sentiment of many members when she says, “Blending my voice with 90 others to make a beautiful sound is an experience like no other. I leave every rehearsal feeling both energized and peaceful. I feel lucky to have this opportunity right here in my hometown.” Other members add that the whole experience is fun, that they are eager to come back every year, and that they are proud to be a part of the group’s mission.

In addition to the main concert offering each February, the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus performs free mini-concerts for local senior centers and senior living facilities. They have performed at local events, including the annual AIDS Walk, the Rehoboth Beach Film Festival, a Spring Rehoboth Beach Bandstand performance, and the annual Rehoboth Beach Christmas parade. The chorus has also performed with the Rehoboth Beach Concert Band and at The Freeman Stage.

Singers who want to become part of the chorus are encouraged to submit applications through the CAMP Rehoboth website (camprehoboth.com), or by

contacting the office (302-227-5620).

Due to space restrictions, the chorus is limited to 90 singers, and has already reached capacity for this coming season.

This shouldn’t discourage potential new members from applying. Current members may discover conflicts and withdraw before the chorus begins rehearsals Monday nights in October, allowing new members to replace them. There is a brief audition with Doug to ensure members are placed in the correct section, but reading music is not a requirement for membership—only a desire to sing.

So save the date for the next concert, “Seasons of Love,” on February 15, 16, and 17, 2019. Tickets go fast, so don’t wait until the last minute to purchase. Share a unique experience, whether standing up to sing, or sitting back to listen. Either is a guaranteed great time!

And this fall and winter, Baltimore Avenue will be buzzing with the sound of 90 CAMP Rehoboth Chorus songbirds prepping for that concert. After a decade, they still can’t stop the beat! ▼

Music & Memory® at Milford Place The CAMP Rehoboth Chorus and Friends Music & Memory Project recently provided the funds for the training and equipment (MP3 players, headphones, and laptop) needed to implement the program at Milford Place Assisted Living.

Residents get individualized access to their favorite music using music players and headphones. The Chorus Project has funded a total of five facilities in Sussex County. Pictured hanging their Certification Plaque are, left to right, Marge LaFond, Project Committee; Dean Reid, Milford Place Executive Director; Bev Peltz, Project Committee; Vicki Blackburn, Memory Care Director; and Andrew Caruso, Life Enrichment Coordinator. ▼ AUGUST 24, 2018

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Art in Labor (Day)

by Doug Yetter

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ack in 1894, Congress honored “the social and economic achievements of the American worker” by passing legislation declaring the first Monday in September “Labor Day.” This was an improvement on the first celebration, which was held on Tuesday, September 5, 1882. That was dumb.

What I don’t understand is that Labor Day is considered the END of summer. Really?!? Yes, the pool in my community will close that weekend (like I’d be caught dead wearing a Speedo at my age), and children will return to their studies, but it also means that we residents of Gayberry can start to reclaim our beaches and roads—at least during the week. Plus, the meters will be down soon and we can all get back to normal. Whatever that means.

Fall has always been my favorite time of year. I welcome a few cooler days, still aware that the ocean in September is the warmest it will be all year. I long to get the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus season going, and start teaching again. Or even better, TAKE a class and pretend I’m still 13. Now stop grousing about summer being over when you’ve done nothing but complain about the traffic and the heat for the past three months. Get out and see a show, take a class, or replace that velvet toreador in the basement with a piece of real art! Get to work. All locations are Rehoboth Beach unless otherwise noted. ▼

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS The Bears are Back in Town!

CAMP Rehoboth showcases works of art from Washington DC to NYC in an exhibition called Scratched: Everyone Has an Itch from September 2-30.

This unique annual event features the works of artists depicting the bear/ cub community. CAMP Rehoboth’s Health Services Dirctor Sal Seeley curated this exhibit of bear-friendly art. In conjunction with the Rehoboth Beach Bears Beach Weekend, CAMP Rehoboth will host an artists’ reception on September 22 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

When asked what inspires these bear-loving artists, Craig Simmons of Pennsylvania stated, “My Titans series was inspired by the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders. I wanted to create a modern take on the classic Greek/Roman myths using models from the bear community. In addition, I designed a series of minimalist tattoos for each figure to symbolically represent the story of each titan.”

Based in Baltimore, artist Michael Nelson told us, “I was inspired and influenced by the upcoming bear event and a friend’s embrace of that community. I find it interesting as people with different desires—how those desires sometimes become people’s whole identity. I wanted to create something about that all-consuming desire to belong and worship”.

Virginia is represented by Vincent Hughes who said, “Most figurative art is of smooth, trim, and younger models. I want to capture the full spectrum of manhood: bearded and mustachioed men; robust and hirsute physiques—even warm and welcoming smiles—the bear community inspires me.”

(L-R) Prometheus, and Atlas, paintings by Craig Simmons

arts+entertainment PERFORMING ARTS Capital Ringers (capitalringers.org) starts rehearsals for their holiday concert soon and are always looking for “ringers.” Contact them if you’re an English handbell ringer or fan. (Or contact me, as I direct a group as well!)

Collage by Michael Muller

Bears (and those who love them) come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, interests, and inspirations. Come out of hibernation and attend the reception to learn more, meet an artist, and befriend a Bear.

CAMP Rehoboth Hours Monday-Friday: 9 am - 5 pm Saturday: 9 am - 4 pm Sunday: 10 am - 4 pm

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No, I didn’t misspell “kosher.” This incredible University of Delaware Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is an academic cooperative for adults 50+ to enjoy classes, teach, exchange ideas and travel together. Members may take AND teach classes, with hundreds of course offerings determined by member interests, passions, and expertise.

There’s a nominal membership fee which allows you to take an unlimited number of 5- 10- and 14-week classes each semester. No grades, exams, or prerequisites! Classes start September 4 and include painting, bridge (all levels), oceanography, Tai Chi, jewelry making, writing, genealogy, a variety of historical subjects, music, and pasta making! For a complete class schedule: olli.udel.edu/ lewes/—take a look for the pdf under “Courses.”

Clear Space Theatre Company (20 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-2270; ClearSpaceTheatre.org) wraps up their summer repertory season of Footloose, Mary Poppins, and The Rocky Horror Show on September 1, and the final performance of the Delaware Comedy Theatre’s post-show, The Late-R Night Show, is August 25. Their annual gala— Bow Tie and Barefoot—takes place on September 15. Opening September 21: Rabbit Hole.

Freeman Stage (31750 Lake View Drive, Selbyville; 800-840-9227; freemanstage.org) is an open-air venue offering a fantastic mix of shows: August 24: Footloose (Clear Space); August 25: Locals Under the Lights; August 30: As You Like It; August 31: An Evening with Michael Bolton; September 1: Cascading Carlos; September 2: Season Finale Fireworks with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony; September 15: Arts & Jazz Festival; September 16: Gipsy Kings. They also have several FREE family shows on Saturday mornings and week nights.

Possum Point Players (441 Old Laurel Road in Georgetown; 302-856-4560; possumpointplayers.org) present the Thornton Wilder classic Our Town— directed by Russell Stiles—September 7-16.

Premier Centre for the Arts at Milton Theater (110 Union St. in Milton; 302-684-3038; miltontheatre.com) “keeps Milton weird”! August 24: Branson on the Road; August 25: Men in Motion (18+ only); August 31: The Best of Broadway with Eddie Bruce; September 1: 20 Years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; September 7: As You Like It (FREE); September 8: Paul Cullen & Erin Dickens—2nd Time Around; September 13: Janglebachs; September

14: Liz Russo Comedy Night; September 15: NPR Political Editor Domenico Montanaro; September 20: Howard the Duck; September 21: Psychic Deanna Fitzpatrick; September 22: The Ultimate Robin Williams Experience.

Rehoboth Concert Band (703-5989867; rehobothconcertband.org) is looking for new members—especially clarinet and percussion. They rehearse Thursday evenings (7 p.m.) at the Rehoboth Senior Center.

Rehoboth Beach Bandstand (Rehoboth Avenue & the Atlantic Ocean; 302-644-2288; rehobothbandstand. com) celebrates their 56th season— August 24: Larger Than Life—the Ultimate Boyband Tribute; August 25: Peter Johann Band; August 26: Flatland Drive; August 31: The Fabulous Hubcaps; September 1: Glass Onion; and closes their season September 2: DSU Approaching Storm Marching Band. All concerts begin at 8 p.m.

Rehoboth Beach Film Society (17701 Dartmouth Drive, Lewes; 302-313-4032; rehobothfilm.com) screens the best new Independent films at their Cinema Art Theatre. Check their website for updates and show times.

Second Street Players (2 South Walnut Street, Milford; 302-422-0220/ 800-838-3006; secondstreetplayers. com) open their fall season September 7 with Night of the Living Dead, directed

by Ben Lonski.

Southern Delaware Chorale (P.O. Box 444; 302-260-7022; southerndelawarechorale.org) performs a broad variety of liturgical and secular choral music from many traditions and genres under the direction of Dr. Colin Armstrong, and begins rehearsing for their presentation of Handel’s Messiah in September.

Interested singers may contact them.

Stango Park Concerts (Kings Highway, next to the Lewes Library) offers their final FREE concert of the season Tuesday, August 28: U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters (at Cape Henlopen High School).

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arts+entertainment VISUAL ARTS Abraxas Studio of Art (515 Federal Street, Lewes; 302-645-9119; abraxasart. com) features the oil portraits and landscape paintings of Abraxas and his own style of illuminated reality.

Anna Hazzard Museum (17 Christian Street; 302-2261119) is a captivating look at the early history of Rehoboth Beach as a religious retreat.

The museum is housed in one of the original “tent” houses from Rehoboth’s 1870s campmeeting era and is named for former owner and civic leader, Anna Hazzard.

CAMP Rehoboth Gallery (37 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-5620; camprehoboth.com) features Delaware Division of the Arts 2018 Award Winners at CAMP Rehoboth, (through August 26). On display September 2-25, with a reception Saturday, September 22 (4:30-6:30 p.m.) is Scratched—presented in conjunction with the Rehoboth Beach Bears Weekend and featuring works by area artists depicting the bear/ cub community.

Cape Artists Gallery (110 W. 3rd St., Lewes; 302-644-7733) represents two dozen artists, with much of their work focusing on beach scenes.

Delaware Art Gallery (239 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-853-5099; kevinfleming.com) offers new and classic Delaware photographs by Kevin Fleming.

Gallery 50 Contemporary Art & Frame Shop (50 A-B Wilmington Avenue; 302227-2050; gallery50art.com).

Works by Gary Fisher are featured through August 30; new work by Jason Wright (August 31-September 13); Sallie Otenasek opens her show September 28.

Heidi Lowe Gallery (328 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-2279203; heidilowejewelry.com) has beautiful and unique hand-made pieces (including wedding rings!) and offers classes in jewelry making.

Painting With a Twist (17723 Coastal Highway; 302-313-5769; paintingwithatwist.com/lewes/) offers painting classes and “pARTies” for all occasions.

Visit their website for details.

Killen’s Pond, pastel by Nick Serratore at Peninsula Gallery.

Peninsula Gallery (520 E. Savannah Road, Lewes; 302-645-0551; peninsula-gallery.com) presents the Coastal Camera Club Juried Exhibition—through August 26. Pastel artist Nick Serratore, inspired by the images of Delaware State Parks official photographer, April Allyson Abel, opens An Hour in the Quiet—with an opening reception Saturday, September 1.

Rehoboth Art League (12 Dodds Lane, Henlopen Acres; 302-227-8408; rehobothartleague.org) has a fantastic schedule of classes— pottery to pen and ink technique to jewelry making… something for everyone.

Current exhibitions: Preservation Matters—over 700 pieces in RAL’s Permanent Collection, and the conservation efforts to maintain the collection—in the Marcia and Henry DeWitt Gallery (through September 6). Check their website for a complete schedule of exhibits, salons, and gallery talks.

Rehoboth Beach Museum (511 Rehoboth Avenue at the Canal; 302-227-7310; rehobothbeachmuseum.org) has nearly completed renovations to their second floor and revamping of the permanent collection exhibits, and reopens soon! In the meantime, they still have some great walking tours of the area and fascinating lectures.

Stuart Kingston (One Grenoble Place; 302-2272524; stuartkingston.com) is an auction house and retail store offering fine art and home furnishings.

The Studio on 24 (20231 John J. Williams Highway, Lewes; 302-644-4424; thestu-

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Nick’s Morning Light, by April Allyson Abel at Peninsula Gallery.

dioon24.com) is open during the summer by appointment only with owner and artisan Deb Appleby’s custom made glassware.

Tideline Gallery (146 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-227-4444; tidelinegallery.com) offers unique gifts, jewelry, pottery, and art glass.

Ward Ellinger Gallery (CAMP Rehoboth Courtyard, 39 Baltimore Avenue; 302-2272710) features art in different mediums by abstract expressionist Ward Ellinger and Sondra N. Arkin.▼ Doug is the Artistic and Musical Director for CAMP Rehoboth Chorus, Director of Music Ministries at Epworth UMC, and co-founder and Artistic Director emeritus of the Clear Space Theater Company. Contact Doug at dougyetter@gmail.com if you want to add your events to the calendar. Check out CAMP Arts on our website at camprehoboth. com for links to all the listed theatres, galleries and museums This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.

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BOOKED SOLID And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove

by Henry Alford c.2018, Simon & Schuster $26.00/$35.00 Canada You can’t stop your feet.

They need to move, to taptap-tap, to side step, and dosi-do. The music’s on and you gotta move. You can’t help it, your toes gotta go, and in And Then We Danced by Henry Alford, you take the lead.

Think of all the times you danced in your life.

Your first was likely some bouncy-toddler thing you did, and the adults around you laughed. Later, you endured embarrassing and awkward boy-girl classes or school events until you became cool (even if only in your own mind) and snuck into clubs. You’ve danced at weddings, for fun, for joy; and Alford has danced for work. He’s a journalist who immerses himself in his subject in order to write about it but, in the case of dance, he’s been immersed his whole life.

Dance, he says, is a “universal language.” If you suddenly found yourself in Siberia and you began dancing, nobody would mistake what you were doing. It’s an art, yes—but it’s so much more.

Dance, he says, is a way of “social entrée.” Cotillions and debutante balls are good examples, dancing in a club falls into this category, and if you ever took classes from an Arthur Murray studio, you get the picture.

Politics can step onto the dance floor, Alford says. Think about your favorite candidate on the campaign trail, dancing with potential constituents. Or think of the Cakewalk, a dance

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that was “Originally devised as a way for slaves to mock their masters.…”

Teenagers know that dance can be a form of rebellion; icons such as Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham knew that, too. Dance can be a form of emotional release—happy, sad, or angry—and it can involve one’s entire body, almost without thought. Any good church choir can tell you that dance is spiritual. With the right group, it can bring on feelings of nostalgia. And dance, if you need it, can be healing.

There are a few pleasant little surprises to this book about moving your body: it’s also author Henry Alford’s memoir, and it’s a series of mini-biographies of dancers you may know and admire. And it’s delightful.

Part of the reason is that Alford uses his youth as example here: he was a gawky kid who tried very hard to ignore his gayness, an attempt that made junior high boy-girl dances understandably more awkward. His tales are mostly universal (who didn’t hate forced dance class?) and they’ll make you laugh, while anecdotes of researching to write this book— Alford dives into dance, remember—are woven between the life stories of Murray, Duncan, Graham, Savion Glover, Toni Bentley, and other dancers, as well as lighter-side dance history through the ages.

Yes, there are “Awww, naw” moments along here with the Nae Nae, but the joy in this book supersedes any sadness.

All in all, it’s a quick-stepper, and for a hoofer, ballet lover, line dancer, or anyone who shimmies and bops, And Then We Danced will have you on your feet.▼ Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was three years old and never goes anywhere without a book. Always Overbooked, she lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 15,000 books.

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Say What? The Joy of Hearing

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randpa Lynch, a retired railroad engineer, had big clunky hearing aids. Grandma Lynch needed a pair, though her family said she could hear perfectly well when she wanted to. There was definitely hearing loss on my mother’s side, but her parents couldn’t have afforded hearing aids if they’d wanted them, which they didn’t any more than Grandma Lynch did.

Shame was attached to the very idea of needing such devices. Do people reject hearing aids out of pride? Vanity?

Was it the stigma of disability? Maybe back then the newfangled things weren’t very effective. Probably they were uncomfortable.

I was excited when I got my hearing aids last month. I mean, thrilled, looking forward to, happily anticipating, tickled pink. For years I’d been having trouble distinguishing between consonants like b, t, v, d. I was never certain what a speaker said so it was difficult to respond. Of course, my native shyness played into those feelings, but that’s a whole other story.

The New York Times This year, I looked forward to the lesbian Golden Crown Literary Conference (GCLS) because I’d be able to hear actual words spoken in panels, readings, speeches, and noisy restaurants. I’d hear words spoken on the dance floor. Maybe I’d reply sensibly to readers and other writers.

Shame? Heck, no. I got good at spotting the now nearinvisible gadgets and honed in on folks in my neighborhood to get the scoop on brands, deals, and comfort. They were not always chatty—that lingering shame. Is it shame of getting old?

Bring it on, Mother Nature. If I don’t fight aging, I have more energy to work with it.

There are pitfalls, mainly monetary. My sweetheart and I like to support local businesses, so we went down the street to a Doctor of Audiology. She confirmed that I was a candidate for hearing aids. They were terribly expensive, though, so I dithered. Neighbors kept telling me to go to Costco, which they said was cheaper, but when you live on Social Security and what your wits as a gay writer can bring in, even Costco products can break the bank. I sat on the information for another eighteen months.

Until…conversations with my sweetheart became peppered with the word “what?” It was driving us both nuts.

As it happens, we’re from New York and New Jersey, which predisposes us to certain unintelligible quirks of speech.

Understanding each other can be trying. Add low hearing and you have a formula for a cranky couple.

It was off to Dr. Ear again. The tech gave me a demo set

of aids to wear around for a week. I almost cried when it was time to return them. The cost for a pair of my own? Six grand.

We could plump up the GCLS scholarship fund with that much cash. Pay a few years of our taxes. Keep the animal shelter in food for a while. Help get an intelligent politician elected to office.

But…I never used the word “what” that whole week. How do you put a price on a happy lesbian household? Plus, the conference was coming up. We took a chunk of our life savings, got me fitted, and placed the order.

And then, out of nowhere, my sweetheart’s job was eliminated. We were stunned. She’s so good at anything she does, the employer should’ve created a new job for her, never mind Scrooging away the one she had.

We high-tailed it to Dr. Ear’s office and cancelled our order. But we weren’t about to relinquish the blessed tranquility afforded our marriage by these tiny doodads. My sweetheart plunged into umpteen hours of researching every fact known September 25, 2017 to woman about hearing gizmos. Turns out what we’d been told—that Costco sells instruments with older technology—was no longer true.

The nearest Costco is worth the three-hour roundtrip drive. Bottom line, with the already more palatable Costco prices and benefits from signing up for executive membership and Costco’s credit card, we saved four thousand dollars on the exact same contraption. Our warranty is now longer and more comprehensive, and we can still afford our cat’s veterinary bills.

When I first put in the hearing aids, I felt a giant exhalation of tension. Though I knew of my relatively modest hearing loss, I was unaware what a strain it put not just on my marriage and public life, but on my mind and body. This summer continues to be full of refreshing sounds.

The New York Times (Sep 25, 2017): “When the brain struggles to make sense of the world it may be less able to perform other important tasks.” Research on this continues, linking hearing (and vision) loss to cognitive decline.

Now I seldom ask “What?” and even though GCLS was held at a casino hotel where music boomed and blared unbearably almost everywhere, I don’t think I missed one beautiful lesbian word.▼

“When the brain struggles to make sense of the world it may be less able to perform other important tasks.”

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CAMPDates SUNDAYS

• Alcoholics Anon. Open Discussion. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 9 am.

• Brunch w/Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 10 am. 302-227-6515 • 3rd Sunday. Drag Brunch. Goolee’s Grille, 11 S. 1st St. 1-3 pm. 302-227-7653 • T-Dance. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3 pm • 4th Sunday. Healing Circle.

CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 5 pm.

• Ed Mills. Rigby’s Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-6080 • Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • Last Sunday of each month. TransSocial of Delaware. Metropolitan Community Church, 19369 Plantations Rd., Lewes.

7 pm. Visit meetup.com/RehobothTransLiance • Last Dance. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm • Games w/Magnolia. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515 • The Birdcage Bad Girls Drag Show.

Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 10 pm. 302-226-1139

MONDAYS

• Insight Meditation. St. Peters, Mulberry St., Lewes. 4 pm. 302-644-2514 • Matthew Kenworthy. Rigby’s Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-6080 • Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • Bandeoke! Karaoke with a Live Band.

Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. 302-212-5355

TUESDAYS

• Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • 2nd Tuesday. PFLAG. Lewes Library, 111 Adams St. 6 pm. pflagrehobothbeach@gmail.com.

• 3rd Tuesday. Kent County LGBT Dover Support and Social Group. Christ Episcopal Church, 523 South State St., Dover. 7 pm. lgbtdover_kent@yahoo.com • Young People’s AA. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 8 pm.

• Bingo w/the Blue Moon Divas.

Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm.

302-227-6515

• 2nd Wednesday. Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group. MCC of Rehoboth, 19369 Plantations Road. 6:30 pm.

302-227-5620 • Alt. Wednesdays. Men’s Discussion Group. Epworth United Methodist Church, 19285 Holland Glade Rd. 7 pm.

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THURSDAYS

• Alcoholics Anon. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 12 noon. 302-856-6452

• Footloose. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270. 7:30 pm.

Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/buytickets

AUGUST 26 • 9th Annual Sundance Land & Sea Racing Festival. Rehoboth Beach Bandstand.

Register www.seashorestriders.com

• Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • John Flynn w/Holly Lane. Café Azafran, 18 Baltimore Ave. 6:30 pm. 302-227-8100

AUGUST 27

• SLAA/SAA Meeting. All Saints Church Hall, Lower Level, 18 Olive Ave. 7:30 pm.

302-745-7929 • Lower Case Blues. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave Ext. 7:30 pm.

302-212-5355

• Footloose. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270.

7:30 pm. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/ buy-tickets • Telly Leung. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-6515. 9:30 pm. $25 pp.

AUGUST 29 • Historic Lewes Farmer’s Market.

Crooked Hammock, Lewes 8-11 am.

302-644-1436 • Mary Poppins. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270.

7:30 pm. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/ buy-tickets

AUGUST 30 • Mary Poppins. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270.

7:30 pm. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/ buy-tickets

AUGUST 31 • The Rocky Horror Show. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270.

7:30 pm. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/ buy-tickets

• Karaoke. Rigby’s Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080 • Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139 • Karaoke with the Blue Moon Divas.

Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm.

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FRIDAYS

• 1st Friday. FURst Friday Bear Happy Hour.

The Pond, 3 S. First St. 302-227-2234 • John Flynn. Shorebreak Lodge, A Restaurant. 10 Wilmington Ave. 5 pm.

302-227-1007 • Karaoke. Rigby’s Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080 • Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139 • Gear It UP Fridays. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm.

302-227-1023 • Spotlight Show. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:45 pm. 302-227-6515

SATURDAYS

• 1st & 3rd Saturdays. Women’s Coffee Talk.

CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 10 am. 302-227-5620 • Karaoke. Rigby’s Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-6080

• Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515

• Legends. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515

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• Footloose. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270. 7:30 pm. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/ buy-tickets

• DJ Jamie Fox. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. 5-8 pm. 302-212-5355

• Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139

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• Historic Lewes Farmer’s Market.

George H.P. Smith Park, Lewes 8 am-12 pm. 302-644-1436

• Karaoke. Rigby’s Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. • Male Revue-Men In Motion. Milton 8 pm. 302-227-6080 Theatre, 110 Union St. 302-684-3038.

• Showcase w/Mona Lotts. Blue Moon, 8 pm. Tickets: miltontheatre.com 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515

WEDNESDAYS

• John Flynn. Shorebreak Lodge, A Restaurant. 10 Wilmington Ave. 5 pm.

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• ManDance. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm.

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• Viki Dee. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7 pm. 302-212-5355

SEPTEMBER 1-2 • Sundance 2018 — Rainbow XXXI: In The Name of Love

SEPTEMBER 1 • Historic Lewes Farmer’s Market. George H.P. Smith Park, Lewes 8 am-12 pm.

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• Sundance Dance. Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. $45 pp. Tickets: camprehoboth.com

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• Rehoboth Beach Bear Weekend.

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• AIDS Walk Delaware, Grove Park in Rehoboth Beach, Sept. 22 from 9 am-12 pm. aidswalkdelaware.org

• Historic Lewes Farmer’s Market. George H.P. Smith Park, Lewes 8 am-12 pm.

302-644-1436 • 8th Annual Community Wide Celebration of Life-Wings of Hope Butterfly Release.

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• Howard the Duck. Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 302-684-3038. 7 pm.

Tickets: miltontheatre.com • Redemption w/DJ Ryan Doubleyou.

Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm

• The Rocky Horror Show. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270.

7:30 pm. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/ • Paul Cullen and Friends. Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 302-684-3038. 8 pm. buy-tickets Tickets: miltontheatre.com • Sundance Auction. Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. SEPTEMBER 15 $45 pp. Tickets: camprehoboth.com • Historic Lewes Farmer’s Market. George • Vickie Shaw. Java Jukebox, H.P. Smith Park, Lewes 8 am-12 pm.

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• Jamie Fox. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext 6 pm. 302-212-5355

• Deanna Fitzpatrick. Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 302-684-3038. 8 pm.

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• Happy Hour with Your Dog! Purple Parrot Biergarten, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 4-7 pm.

• Wicked Jezabel. Java Jukebox, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. $17 pp. 7 pm.

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• Rabbit Hole. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270. 7 pm.

Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/buytickets • CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST Presents the Reunion Tour with Cris Williamson, Barbara Higbie and Teresa Trull. Epworth United Methodist Church, 19285 Holland Glade Rd. $35 pp. 7:30 pm

• Bearhole Farms Fun Fest to benefit the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation. 37756 Bearhole Rd., Selbyville, DE. 10 am-3 pm.

Information: bearholefarms.com • Rabbit Hole. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270. 7 pm.

Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/buytickets

SEPTEMBER 23 • Rabbit Hole. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. 302-227-2270. 3 pm.

Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org/buytickets • Honey T-Dance w/DJ Biff. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3-8 pm.

• JamBEARee w/DJ Ryan. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm

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WELCOMES YOU!

St. George’s Chapel, Rt. 23 - 20274 Beaver Dam Rd., Harbeson at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday Service • 11:30 a.m. Holy Communion and Healing

A friendly and fully inclusive parish. www.allsaintsandstgeorges.org

Seaside Jewish Community an unaffiliated, egalitarian congregation

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Shabbat services, 7:30 pm first Fridays; 10 am third Saturdays.

Weekly summer services. Holiday services.

Educational programs, social events, school.

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AD INDEX Accent On Travel................................................ 97 AG Renovations..................................................80 AIDS Walk Delaware......................................... 109 Allen Jarmon, Realtor.........................................65 Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group...............28 American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware ......63 Aqua Grill.............................................................41 Atlantic Jewelry...................................................13 Back Porch Café.................................................38 Bad Hair Day...................................................... 67 Beach Cuts Hair Salon........................................25 Beach Tans & Hair Designs................................24 Beagle Real Estate Group..................................111 Beebe Healthcare...............................................31 Beebe Healthcare Career Opportunities...........83 Bell Rock Capital.............................................. 106 Big Fish Events....................................................19 Blue Moon..........................................................59 Boardwalk Builders............................................24 Breakthru Beverage........................................... 47 Café Azafran.......................................................92 Café Papillon......................................................38 CAMP Rehoboth AIDS Walk Team..................... 112 CAMP Rehoboth Annual Premier Sponsors......... 7 CAMP Rehoboth Beach Guide Business Partners...............................................80 CAMP Rehoboth Block Party.............................. 43 CAMP Rehoboth Families...................................38 CAMP Rehoboth Free Flu Shots........................ 112 CAMP Rehoboth Grief Counseling.....................86 CAMP Rehoboth Letters Subscription................ 72 CAMP Rehoboth Membership............................ 34 CAMP Rehoboth Mental Health......................... 112 CAMP Rehoboth Trans Discussion.................... 112 CAMP Rehoboth Ukulele Lessons......................38

CAMP Rehoboth Volunteer Opportunities ......... 72 CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST Reunion Tour..............................................81 CAMP Rehoboth Women’s Golf..........................82 CAMPSafe......................................................... 108 Celebrity Chefs’ Brunch - Meals On Wheels......50 Clear Space Theatre...........................................111 Community Pride Financial Advisors..................86 Country Lawn Care..............................................51 County Bank.......................................................111 Crowley Associates Realty.................................92 Debbie Reed Team, Realtors............................ 106 Delaware Coast Antique Show..........................55 Delaware Hospice..............................................30 Delaware Humane Association.......................... 67 Delaware Valley Legacy Fund............................54 Diego’s Hideaway........................................ 29, 87 Dos Locos............................................................91 Elegant Slumming..............................................40 Eric Atkins, Realtor.............................................82 Fuqua, Willard, Stevens & Schab, PA................. 67 Gay Men’s Group.............................................. 106 Gay Women of Rehoboth Meet-Up.................... 67 General Dentistry...............................................28 Go Fish/GoBrit....................................................111 God’s Greyts Senior Greyhounds.......................28 Goolee’s Grille....................................................26 Gregory Meyers Hair Studio...............................28 Historic Lewes Farmers Market..........................51 HIV Testing.........................................................42 Houses Of Worship............................................ 116 Iguana Grill......................................................... 77 Immanuel Shelter...............................................58 Jack Lingo, Realtor.............................................89 Java Jukebox ..................................................... 79

Jenn Harpel, Morgan Stanley.............................23 John Black, Bill Peiffer, Realtors ........................90 Jolly Trolley........................................................38 Just In Thyme Restaurant....................................10 Lana Warfield, Realtor........................................ 72 Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Realtors.....................10 Lori’s Café..........................................................55 Luxury Motors......................................................15 M.G.T. & Co. Toggery Shop.................................30 McGuiness Group, Realtors............................... 114 MERR Institute .................................................. 115 Midway Fitness & Racquetball.......................... 119 Milton Theatre....................................................117 Mirabelle............................................................42 Morris James LLP.................................................9 Murph’s Beef & Ale.............................................66 Mytesi..................................................................17 Nancy Sakaduski................................................24 New Wave Spas.................................................. 74 Olivia Travel........................................................85 One Day At A Time Gift Shop............................. 67 One Spirit Massage............................................23 Paint and Patches Handyman Service...............45 Palate..................................................................10 Pet Portraits by Monique....................................80 Philip Lowe, Prudential Insurance Company.....29 Philip Morton Gallery..........................................23 Photo Restoration..............................................46 Puerto Vallarta Vacations.................................. 118 Purple Parrot...................................................... 76 Randy Mason/Shirley Kalvinsky, Realtors..........25 Randy’s Custom Window Treatments................ 75 Rehoboth Art League.........................................46 Rehoboth Beach Bears .....................................107 Rehoboth Beach Dental.....................................66

Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival..................................................... 103 Rehoboth Beach Museum..................................66 Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company......... 73 Rehoboth Guest House......................................80 Rehoboth Massage & Alignment........................117 Ron Whitesell, Realtor........................................28 Ron’s Repairs......................................................25 Salty Paws..........................................................58 Saved Souls Animal Rescue.............................. 115 Sea Bova Associates, Realtors......................... 120 Senior Adult Resources......................................117 Shademakers.....................................................25 SoDel Concepts.................................................. 57 Southern Delaware Festival............................. 105 State Farm - Eric Blondin & Jeanine O’Donnell...............................................15 State Farm - George Bunting.............................56 SUN Behavioral - Delaware................................58 Sundance 2018 - Dance.....................................53 Sundance 2018 - Hosts and Sponsors...............20 Sundance Land & Sea Racing Festival............... 27 Sussex Family YMCA........................................ 108 The Lawson Firm................................................92 The ManKind Project..........................................93 Troy Roberts, Realtor..........................................46 True Blue Jazz Festival........................................ 11 Unfinished Business......................................... 104 Union Home Mortgage........................................12 Volunteer Thank You..........................................49 Ward Ellinger Gallery..........................................82 Windsor’s Flowers..............................................38 Wings Of Hope.................................................. 113 Woman of Distinction Honor Fay Jacobs...........39 Women’s Coffee Talk..........................................28

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KINGS CREEK COUNTRY CLUB - Rehoboth Beach. Stunning custom built Courtyard-style home makes you feel like you’ve been transported to West Palm Beach, Florida. Gorgeous finishes & appointments throughout the property. Main house is 3BR/2.5BA. Courtyard has 1BR/1BA suite for your visitors, in-laws or au pair. 2-car & separate 1-car garage.

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1976 3BR/2BA. LV & family room. Screen porch. Outdoor shower. Fenced, corner lot is 0.28 acres. 4 miles to beach & near State Park trail. $269,990 (1002006228)

RIVER ROCK RUN - Milton.

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CAMELOT MEADOWS Rehoboth. 1972 3BR/1BA with enclosed porch. Fixer Upper. Furnished. Shed.

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PINEY GLADE - Rehoboth.

0.29-acre cleared lot located east of Hwy 1 & less than 4 miles to boardwalk. Public water & sewer w/impact fees already paid. Shed. $150,000 (1001966148)

LOVE CREEK PARK Lewes. 1984 2BR/2BA home is across from the playground.

Partially furnished. Big shed.

Marina community w/boat ramp & slips for rent. $29,900 (1001938826) Lot Rent $515/mt.

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1977 3BR/2BA home. Sun room & family room w/elec FP. Newer HVAC. 1/3 acre. Shed + oversized 1-car garage. East of Hwy 1 & 4 miles to beach. $214,500 (1001569000)

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Lot Rent $546/mt

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