On the last day before winter break, a routine school assembly became something altogether different. A childhood poem, a visiting folk band, and a name called out across a crowded cafetorium created a moment that would eventually become difficult to distinguish from a dream.
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A/V
After years of probation, the intern finally earns his credentials. Armed with a key, a loaded cart and a Bell & Howell 16mm projector, a fourth-grade A/V technician discovers that sometimes growing up begins when someone trusts you with the equipment.
Friday Night Atari
A Friday night in Syracuse, 1983. Pitfall gives way to Robot Tank, and a ten-year-old boy discovers a new dimension just before his own world is about to change.
The Cr’apple
Some lurked in closets. Others scratched at bedroom windows during summer storms, fed by half-heard conversations and imaginations running far ahead of reason. The Cr’apple is the story of one such creature, and the quiet revelation decades later that transformed a family tree into a family legend.
