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Art Envy We’re all alone, so let’s get lost in these paintings of parties

BY SEBASTIAN SMEE

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y wife saw a plate of cupcakes on Instagram and freaked out. It was our first week of social distancing, and to her, the little cakes, covered in promiscuous sprinkles, seemed far too close together for comfort.

Cupcakes lose a lot of their appeal, though, if you isolate them on separate little saucers.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard people repeatedly declare that they feel like figures in an Edward Hopper painting. Who can’t relate? The world has surely never experienced so much enforced solitude on such a scale. I’ve thought not just of Hopper, but also of Vilhelm Hammershoi, a late-19th-century Dane who painted haunting interiors in shades of gray, emptied of everything except single sitters seen from behind, and Caspar David Friedrich, that master of solitary walkers and pensive window-gazers.

But my wife’s cupcake anxiety (OK, she was mainly joking) made me wonder, too, about how are we all feeling about images of crowds—about pictures of togetherness, conviviality and mingling pheromones.

Most of us have camera rolls filled with party photos, Thanksgiving tables or crowded beach scenes. Now they’re liable to induce sighs, if we can even bear to look at them.

But what about their painted equivalents?

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Édouard Manet’s “Masked Ball at the Opera” (1873) NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D.C., is blessed to be home to two of the more famous party paintings in art history. The Phillips Collection has Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party,” and the National Gallery of Art has Manet’s “Masked |

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Ball at the Opera.” Extroverts both, these canvases are probably feeling forlorn and out of sorts, what with the galleries closed since mid-March. It might be a good time to reach out to them.

The Renoir, one of the world’s most

beloved paintings, shows a lively gathering buzzing with bonhomie and fluttering, sun-kissed physical proximity.

“Gosh,” you think now, “even just seeing it in reproduction, I could do with a bit of that ...”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party” (1880-81) THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION

It was painted in 1880-81, 10 years after Paris had endured a trauma like no other—a four-month siege, a government overthrow and a bloody civil war. Good times had returned.

The setting for Renoir’s scene is the Restaurant Fournaise on the Seine below the bridge at Chatou, a semirural settlement just 20 minutes by train from central Paris, where Pierre-Auguste Renoir had his studio. Since the railway was built, Chatou and various nearby locales along the river had become immensely popular with Parisians, especially on weekends, when people of all classes came to prome-

Renoir counted on these people. Most of them were better off than he. nade along the banks, swim, sail or row boats, and indulge in various forms of amorous and/or inebriated leisure.

In a sense, though, the locale and wider setting of Renoir’s painting is unimportant. It’s an image that is not just about the good times produced by proximity. It is also about our need for mutual support.

The painting is peppered with Renoir’s friends. Among them are the children of the Fournaise’s owner; Renoir’s future wife and favorite model, Aline Charigot; a fellow artist, Gustave Caillebotte, a boating enthusiast whose financial largesse supported many of his fellow Impressionists; and a well-known collector and art aficionado Charles Ephrussi, who was written about so movingly in Edmund de Waal’s “The Hare With Amber Eyes.”

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ing, impassioned spirit in which he did it. And they were willing to support him. Renoir honored the rapport they all felt for one another with a painting so good that it transcends the specifics of time and place and speaks to anyone who loves laughter, flirtation, ebullience and optimism. ÉDOUARD MANET’S “Masked Ball at the Opera,” painted seven years earlier, depicts a different kind of crowd and has a very different feeling. From a slightly detached viewpoint, we see

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Meet Scoreboard Stan

…and other older adults who found a place to hang their Keys

BY GINA GALLUCCI-WHITE SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-POST

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coreboard” Stan Share first became passionate about baseball at the age of 8. His dad gave him a glove that he still has to this day, decades later. “Ever since then, every year I either played, coached, umpired or worked at the [Nymeo Field at Harry Grove] Stadium,” he said.

The Germantown resident has worked for the Frederick Keys for 28 years. The first four were spent in concessions. Because sports and gatherings are shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Share is not at the scoreboard now, where he was for the last 24 years.

But for those two dozen seasons, whenever a Keys player slid into home plate, or the opposing team made an error, Share was at the control panel in the press box.

“I enjoy big crowds,” he said. “I love to see big crowds come into the stadium. Any crowd is great, but when you have a big crowd, usually on firework evenings, it is a lot of fun. I don’t look at it as pressure anymore. When I first started, I thought, ‘It’s gotta be perfect. Gotta be perfect.’ Then, after being there about 10 years doing scoreboard, I realized if I mess up, I mess up.”

Share is one of multiple older adults who work for the Keys, the Class A-Advanced minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.

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I don’t look at it as pressure anymore. When I first started, I thought, ‘It’s gotta be perfect.

Gotta be perfect.’ Then, after being there about 10 years doing the scoreboard, I realized if I mess up, I mess up.

–Stan Share

Until this season was postponed, Stan Share had run the scoreboard for the Frederick Keys for two dozen years.

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‘Intrinsic Value to Hope’ to be fully transparent about what you know and what you don’t know.

CNN’s Sanjay Gupta on covering the coronavirus

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As somebody interested in health policy, what do you think we could have or should have done differently from a policy point of view?

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anjay Gupta, 50, is the Emmy Award-winning chief medical correspondent at CNN. He is also an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

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As both a journalist and a practicing doctor, I’m sure you think a lot about how to balance the need for people to understand the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, but not provoke hysteria.

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That is the question. The inflection point between hope and honesty—that’s how I think of it.

And my medical career has been helpful because that’s what we’re always doing with patients. I think there is intrinsic value to hope. It shouldn’t just be labeled the opposite of honesty.

But as doctors and as reporters, it can never come at the expense of honesty.

For example, there was a discussion about potentially new therapeutics, one of them being chloroquine, this malaria drug. There’s a 20-patient study out of France that was promising. It’s very early, so I’m hopeful. But there’s no way that I could say that this is going to be it if the evidence isn’t there, you know? There was another study published in the New England Journal of Medicine about these two antiretroviral drugs, HIV drugs, that had a lot of promise. Everyone was really excited. They started the trial one week 8

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Sanjay Gupta is chief medical correspondent at CNN and an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University.

after the first patient was diagnosed in China. And they were, like, this is going to be it; this is going to get us out of this mess. And (then) it showed no benefit over existing supportive care.That’s why you do studies. And it’s not a zero-sum game. I mean, someone suggested:Well, just give them the chloroquine. It’s a pretty safe drug. And maybe it works, |

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maybe it doesn’t. That’s not how you approach science—and if for no other reason than that you might then divert time and resources and energy away from something that could work and really make a monumental difference.

So, yeah, I am hopeful. Who isn’t?

Everybody on the planet right now is hopeful. It’s a pandemic. ... You got

That’s the critical thing here, because some of the early decisions made in China, and also here in the United States, I think, were significant in slowing down the spread of this virus. The 195 passengers who were flown out of Wuhan and then put into quarantine at that Air Force base in Southern California—that was important.

I mean, we had not had a mandatory quarantine like that in this country since smallpox, 60 years ago. The reason that those were important decisions was because they slowed the spread of the virus and bought time.

So the big question is, what do you do with the time that was bought?

We had modeling numbers based on the federal government’s own data that, if this turned into a moderate sort of pandemic, which it looked like it was, here’s what you were going to need: this many hospital beds, this many ICU beds, this many ventilators, this many masks for personal protective equipment. Their own data.

And yet, what surprised me, and I think a lot of people in the public health community, was that that wasn’t acted upon. You bought the time, you know what you need to do, and then, for some reason, those things didn’t connect. It’s reasonable to expect that the federal government will act on that data.

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Is there anything that you want people to understand about the pandemic situation that you feel like you haven’t been able to effectively convey so far?

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The biggest thing is, everyone thinks that this is sort of a linear phenomenon. Let’s see what the number is tomorrow. Let’s see what the number is the day after that. The numbers really don’t matter as much as the pace at which they’re increasing. People will say, “We’re doing all this stuff, and the numbers are still going up; it’s not working!” But that’s not how you look at it. My own patients—and it’s human nature—don’t like to do things that they don’t see the immediate benefit in. I tell them to eat right and exercise and all that—and then nothing will happen to you as a result. And they say, well, that’s not very inspiring. My whole life as a doctor, I’ve been sort of asked to prove a negative for my patients. It’s the same sort of thing here.

The other thing is that people tend to look at this as a very binary thing.

Either you live or you die. Right? The general narrative interpreted by people was that 80% of people will live, and 20% of people are vulnerable— elderly and people with pre-existing conditions.

What we’re learning along the way— we don’t have the robust data because this is just three months into this—is that even younger people, if they do get sick, it can have a much longer-lasting impact on them than a lot of people think. Younger people who have recovered will be listed in that binary formula as the recovered population.

But you’re finding out that they still have 20 to 30% reduced lung function.

Then the final thing is that everyone needs to behave as if they have the virus. I’ve talked about these things, but you’re not always sure that people

are quite getting it. One difference between television and one-on-one medicine is that I don’t get the feedback.

Sometimes through social media you get some sense of it, but it’s still hard to know.

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I was telling a friend of mine the other day: We had a really good childhood, if you think about it.

We were post-Korea, post-Vietnam.

The Gulf War wouldn’t happen until 1991. We were in college at that point and didn’t worry about things. And here my kids—our country has been at war since they were born. There have been two significant recessions.

Climate change is a real topic of discussion.

You know, my middle child used to be the kid who’d say: All right, so here’s how my life is going to unfold.

I’m going to be an architect. I want to have two kids. Here are their names.

This is the kind of guy I’m going to marry. I mean, the whole thing. It was a funny dinnertime conversation. A few months ago, I said, “So how’s your plan going?”

“It’s not happening,” she said, “because I hear that by the year 2030, the world is likely to end.” I never felt like that when I was a kid.

I don’t know what you told your 11-year-old. But I said, “Tell me about your 8th birthday. What was that like?”

She’s like, “I don’t remember my 8th birthday.”

“Exactly. You’ll never forget this.

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H E A LT H

COVID Info for Those 65+ Call 211 (or 1-866-411-6803 for Frederick County-specific information) for accurate information and health, mental health and other resources.

How to Protect Yourself Stay home except to conduct essential business. Wear a mask or a face covering, such as a bandanna, when in a public space.You can still go outside to exercise with your family or to walk your dog.

Wash your hands often, including after touching anything from outside the home. Ask anyone entering your home to wash their hands, too.

Don’t touch your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands. Avoid close contact, remaining at least 6 feet apart from others, which is about two arm lengths.

Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces, including mobility equipment, doorknobs and railings, phones, remotes and switches. Prescriptions can be filled early now. Contact your pharmacy for refills. Keep a 30 day supply of your medications on hand.

Avoid all cruise travel and non-essential air travel.

Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces.

If you have to leave your home to pick up essential items, remember to wipe what you touch in your car.

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tion immediately if you develop emergency warning signs, such as trouble breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, new confusion or inability to arouse, or bluish lips or face.

Food Safety Find out whether your grocery store and pharmacy offer delivery, online ordering or curbside pickup. If you must go shopping, go early in the morning or late in the evening to avoid crowds.

Ask family, neighbors and friends for help when needed. There is no evidence of food transmitting COVID-19.

How to Get Tested If you have symptoms, call your primary health care provider first. Do not go to urgent care or the emergency room without calling ahead. If you are having a medical emergency, call 911.

If your provider thinks you need to be tested, they will give you instructions.

If you need a provider, go to www.

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If you do not have Medicare, check out the free Virtual Visits Frederick Health Hospital is providing for a limited time: www.frederickhealth.org/ VirtualVisit.

Mental Health Make sure you get enough sleep and are still finding ways to enjoy yourself.

Limit news consumption to once or twice a day. Check out the online virtual 50+ Community Center: www. frederickcountymd.gov/virtual50.

If you experience anxiety or fear related to COVID-19 or another situation, call 211, the free 24-hour hotline from Frederick County Mental Health Association, to get support.

Pets As a precaution, if you are sick with COVID-19, wash your hands before and after touching your pet. When possible, have someone else care for your animals while you are sick to avoid contact with your pet.

-Frederick County Government

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Things to Know and Do HAVE CABIN FEVER from staying indoors during COVID-19? While you might not be able to go out and see the sights, you can see some of them from your own home thanks to Frederick County’s Virtual 50+ Community Center.

Visit FrederickCountyMD.gov and search ‘Virtual 50+’ for a whole host of things to do without stepping foot outside.

Want some ideas for healthy recipes now that you’ve got more time to make them? Watch episodes of the county’s Silver Platter Cooking Show for delicious, interesting ideas.

Missing your workout class the gym or at one of the county’s senior centers? You can watch many—tai chi, Zumba, yoga and more—online and follow along.

Plus, listen to TED talks, virtually visit the National Zoo, and explore NASA’s video library. ***

THE DEPARTMENT OF the Treasury (Treasury) announced that Social Security beneficiaries who are not typically required to file tax returns will not need to file an abbreviated tax return to receive an economic impact payment. The IRS will use the information on the Form SSA-1099 to generate $1,200 economic impact payments to Social Security beneficiaries who did not file tax returns in 2018 or 2019.

Treasury, not Social Security, will make automatic payments to Social Security beneficiaries. Beneficiaries will receive these payments by direct deposit or by paper check, just as they would normally receive their Social Security benefits.

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What to Do When Someone Dies

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f you’ve discussed end-of-life plans with nurses and counselors who’ve encouraged you and your family to deal with arrangements, you are one of the lucky ones.

Unfortunately, when grieving a loss, some folks, on top of coming to terms with a loved one’s death, face aides who can’t legally declare a parent’s death, calling 911, hosting emergency personnel and dealing with police investigating a potential crime—elder abuse. Only when paramedics arrive can the body be removed and resuscitation attempts stopped.

Keep a sad eventuality from becoming more painful: Get a legal pronouncement of death.

How to do so depends on whether the person dies at home as opposed to an institution, such as a hospital or hospice. If a doctor isn’t present, you’ll have to contact someone and may need to call 911. If your loved one has a do-notresuscitate document, the paramedics won’t start emergency procedures. They will take your loved one to an emergency room for a doctor to make the declaration. In most situations, a doctor is needed to pronounce death.

You may have to arrange for transportation of the body. If death has been pronounced and no autopsy is needed, a mortuary can pick up your loved one, and must first provide pricing over the phone.You may want transportation to a crematorium.

Check the deceased’s driver’s license to see whether he or she was an organ donor. Because organs can degrade quickly, this is a priority. Make sure a doctor or county coroner has been notified.

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relatives.You may need to have conversations with dependents.You may also need to decide what to do with your loved one’s pets.

If your deceased relative or friend was working, you can call the employer and request information about benefits and any pay due. Ask whether there was a life insurance policy through the company.

In a few days after death: Arrange for the funeral and burial or cremation. This may entail a search of the decedent’s documents to see whether a prepaid burial plan exists.

Go with a family member or friend to the mortuary. Prepare an obituary.

If your loved one served in the military or belonged to a fraternal or religious group, contact the organization.

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Ask a friend or relative to keep an eye on the person’s home, answer the phone, collect mail, throw food out and water plants.

Create a memorial page online— most funeral homes offer this option and can help you do this.

Consider the purchase of a casket or urn. Caskets can be very expensive, so it may be a good idea to have a friend along as the voice of reason, so the recently bereaved don’t buy a needlessly costly one in the throes of grief.

Within 10 days after death: Take the will to the appropriate country or city office to have it accepted for probate.

If necessary, the estate’s executor should open a bank account for the deceased’s estate.

Contact a trust and estates attorney to learn how to transfer assets and to assist with probate issues.

Ask police to periodically check the deceased’s house if it is vacant.

Contact an accountant or tax preparer to see whether an estate-tax return or final income tax return should be filed. Check in with Social Security and other agencies, such as Veterans Affairs, about benefits, to stop payments and to ask about applicable survivor benefits.

These are details that we would much rather never have to deal with, but it’s better to be informed. File this checklist to use when a sad event occurs to help it from becoming even more painful.

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Boredom Busters

GUESS WHO

A B C D E F G H I J K L MN O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

CRY PTO FUN

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I am an actress born on May 26, 1966 in London. I am known for my many eclectic roles.

I rose to fame in “Fight Club,” appeared in many Tim Burton flicks and also showcased my singing chops in “Les Miserables.”

Determine the code to reveal the answer.

Clue: Burger addition

C. Clue: Type of bread

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Clue: Sustenance

I am a comic, writer and actress born on May 18, 1970 in Pennsylvania. In school I was involved with the drama club and student newspaper. As a professional, I became the first female head writer at “Saturday Night Live.”

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I am an actress born in Hawaii on June 20, 1967, but most people think of me as a native Australian. My breakthrough role came in a 1989 psychological thriller opposite Sam Neill.

Answer: Nicole Kidman

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Answer: Tina Fey

Clue: Meat sandwich

Answer: Helena Bonham Carter

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Answers: A. hamburger B. topping C. bun D. food

Solve the code to find words related to burgers.

Each number corresponds to a letter.

(Hint: 24=o)

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I am an actress born in Italy on September 20, 1934. I was a finalist for a beauty pageant at the age of 14. I’ve been in many notable films and I am the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English speaking performance.

Answer: Sophia Loren

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Curved symmetrical structure 5. One’s partner in marriage 11. Male admirer 12. Spend in a period of dormancy 16. Popular Easter meal 17. Doc 18. Bearing a heavy load 19. Gratitude 24. The Mount Rushmore State 25. Driving 26. Girl 27. British thermal unit 28. Makes a mistake 29. A defined length of time 30. Lions do it 31. Large quantities 33. Become less intense 34. Famed peninsula 38. Emerges 39. Rare Hawaiian geese 40. Dance style 43. Drove 44. Measures speed of an engine (abbr.)

45. Yankee hero Bucky 49. Midway between west and northwest 50. Monetary unit of Samoa 51. Makes clothing 53. Spielberg’s alien 54. Agreeable to the taste 56. Injury treatment protocol 58. Cools your house 59. Imaginary line 60. New convert 63. Some do it to their windows 64. Wore away 65. Work units CLUES DOWN 1. Remove body tissue 2. Harvester 3. Roadside living quarters

4. Excessive self-confidence 5. Lapp 6. Bicycled 7. Entrance to a passage 8. Western U.S. state 9. Grain towers 10. “Westworld” actress __ Rachel Wood 13. Commercial 14. One who left a will 15. Makes it through 20. Within (prefix) 21. Sea patrol (abbr.)

22. Cigarettes (slang) 23. A doctrine 27. Constrictor snakes 29. Atomic #73 30. Baseball stat 31. Female sibling 32. A soft gray metal (abbr.)

33. Southern constellation 34. Belgian city 35. Go in again 36. In a different, more positive way 37. A place for sleeping 38. Blood type 40. Syrian news agency (abbr.)

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CROSSWORD ANSWERS (FROM PAGE 18) SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. Arch 5. Spouse 11. Beau 12. Aestivate 16. Lamb 17. MD 18. Laden 19. Appreciation 24. SD 25. Teeing 26. Lass 27. BTU 28. Errs 29. Term 30. Roar 31. Scads 33. Abate 34. Arabia 38. Arises 39. Nenes 40. Samba 43. Teed 44. Tach 45. Dent 49. WNW 50. Sene 51. Tailor 53. ET 54. Palatability 56. Rehab 58. AC 59. Axis 60. Proselyte 63. Tint 64. Eroded 65. Ergs SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. Ablate 2. Reaper

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KEYS, continued from 6 “OUR GAME-DAY STAFF members are an integral part of the Frederick Keys experience,” said Dave Ziedelis, Keys’ general manager. “Our senior employees provide an example to each of our staff members on how to interact with fans the right way. They bring so much passion and joy to each game, and their extensive knowledge is timeless. We can’t thank them enough for their work and attitude…”

Ron Little has been an usher for 14 years. “I’m a big baseball fan, and I am involved in just about everything that has to do with baseball,” he said.

“I have a large card collection. I do fantasy baseball.”

Living in Annapolis at the time he was set to retire, he decided to move to Martinsburg, West Virginia, to get away from the traffic. While looking for potential job opportunities, he decided to apply with the Keys. For a month and a half before his move, he commuted from Annapolis to work at the games.

Prior to this year’s season being postponed, on average, Little worked about 40% of the home games—about eight to 10 a month. He enjoyed being able to see the games while also being involved, as well as interacting with the fans. “It’s always nice to work in games where there is going to be a large crowd,” he said.

SHARE ISN’T SURE how he got the nickname “Scoreboard” or who came up with it. “I’d never heard it until last year, and all of the sudden it’s ‘Scoreboard Stan’ everywhere I go,” he said, laughing.

Share has stories aplenty from his two dozen years at the scoreboard.

Once there was a connection problem for the scoreboard in the press box, so he went up in a cherry picker out in right field.

“I had the radio with me to make sure everything was correct, but that was pretty fun,” he said. “Even though I don’t like heights, that was a pretty good time up on the cherry picker doing the scoreboard.”

He worked for the school system

in Montgomery County for 37 years.

The people have been his favorite part of his job with the Keys. “You get to meet a lot of people from all different walks of life,” he said. “Since I’ve umpired baseball [Little League up to college level], I’ve always wanted to talk to the umpires all the time.

“I’m a big baseball fan, and I am involved in just about everything that has to do with baseball. I have a large card collection.

I do fantasy baseball.”

–Ron Little

Over the years, I have developed a lot of friendships with a lot of the umpires, and there are a lot of them in the major league right now. That type of friendship sticks around for awhile.

When they come into town, they give me a call. ... It’s nice to keep in touch with them.”

He has visited more than 70 minor league baseball stadiums across the country to stay in touch with friends he made through his work with the Keys. Some of the towns are ones he never thought he’d ever go to, like New Orleans. He’s planning a trip to Wichita, Kansas, for next year.

“I just enjoy baseball,” Share said.

“My heroes were all baseball players back then [growing up]. It just kept me into the game for a long, long time.

Just going to the old stadiums ... and just watching the games. Watching kids grow up and play the game and watching their careers. Some of them got drafted, some of them went on to play major league ball.”

A part of the Frederick community since 1989, the Keys have attracted more than 260,000 fans to their home games, despite losing 10 to weather cancellations, leading its league in attendance.

Over the past eight seasons, the team ranked either first or second in attendance.

ART, continued from 5

Manet had his friends come to his studio to pose and that among those who appear in the finished canvas are an art critic (Theodore Duret), a composer (Emmanuel Chabrier) and a collector (Albert Hecht). Manet even painted himself; he’s the man with the blondish beard second from the right. So although Manet’s painting presents a different kind of party crowd, it is underwritten by some of the same spirit of friendship and mutual support as the Renoir.

It is hard to look at these paintings now, or at earlier crowd masterpieces by the likes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (“Peasant Wedding Feast”) and Veronese (“The Wedding at Cana”).

Full of life and local color, of appetite and eros, of sweat and sweet scents and all the secret pockets of rapport that form unexpectedly among people at concerts, crowded parties, parades and festivals, they remind us of all we are missing, stuck at home as we are in our Hopperesque isolation. It hurts.

a tightly packed group of men in top hats and a number of women of various backgrounds. They’re all attending one of two masked balls held annually at the Paris Opéra on the rue Le Peletier— a building that burned down later that year.

The Manet, painted indoors rather than outdoors, is a small, horizontal canvas, and it’s very much a city picture, in contrast to Renoir’s shade-dappled countryside scene. But it shares more with the Renoir than you might think.

Even though the crowded interior Manet depicts has a slightly sordid, transactional atmosphere—the men appear almost sinister, and some of the women were selling sex—it actually portrays many of Manet’s closest friends and supporters, just like the Renoir.

ART HISTORIANS are not entirely confident in their attempts to identify the top-hatted figures. But we know

–The Washington Post

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