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May 2009

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• 05.26.09
  …TELL IT GOODBYE Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Fairfield Ludlowe's Jonathan Servilla watches Westhill's Stanley Paul's home run sail over the right field fence at Westhill Tuesday. 5/26/2009 FCIAC tourney action. Yep, it's that time of year already. Ludelowe's Servilla made a decent attempt at scaling the right field fence, but it was a fruitless effort as Paul's towering home run ended up in the center field...the softball field's center field. –CP
• 05.26.09
  HUMM BABY: A SENIOR MOMENT Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Senior Nicole Memale, hugs a teammate after scoring following her triple in the fifth against Wilton. 5/21/2009 Not once in the five years, eleven months and seventeen days of my employment at the Advocate have I covered a softball game at Westhill High School. Until today. Sure, I've shot the team countless times, but never a home game. Photographer Kathleen O'Rourke assured me the field was great for photography because of decent sight-lines but I found myself sitting in the dirt atop a couple of boxes of game balls and way too close to the on deck 'circle' for comfort. The last thing ...
• 05.26.09
  RUN, DON’T WALK Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Waiters from the Capital Grille take a break to watch the start of the Annual RFR Realty 5K Corporate Run/Walk in Stamford. 5/21/2009 This year I had a pretty good vantage point from the top of a Bartlett Tree Experts truck to shoot the start of this annual 5K race. From the roof of the truck,I saw a couple of waiters from the Capital Grille excited about the start of the race. Later, I did try to track them down to get IDs but a manager-type assured me, there was no possible way that any waiter could possibly have been out there ...
• 05.26.09
  “JIMMY, OVER AND OUT” Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Stamford resident Jimmy Nestor, a WWII veteran, long-time veteran's advocate and past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9617. Jimmy is pretty much everybody's favorite veteran in Stamford. He's always glad to see you, always full of crazy stories – many unpublishable – and he's always willing to give credit where credit is due. Though he manages to get his name in the paper quite a lot, he really didn't want to pose for this photograph without the other veterans who are instrumental in the VFW's effort to place flags on veteran's graves each Memorial Day. But I ...
• 05.04.09
  JUST CALL ME STEVE Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Ashley Wilson, 21, an NCC student, responds to a text message during a photo shoot with the Advocate Monday. 5/4/2009 My neighbor is going to be on MTV. Today, I was handed an assignment bearing the familiar address of my own building. Apparently we – or the GT, anyway – are doing a story on her. I knew she was going to be on an upcoming episode of Room Raiders because a few weeks ago, a mess of hipster tv people were here and she popped out of an SUV jammed with equipment and more production people and said to me "Steve, I'm ...
• 05.03.09
  THE BOYS OF SUMMER Uncategorized | (0)

  ABOVE: Jack Singer, 12, Billy Schreiber, 11, and Stephen Torrellas, 12, line up for the Pledge of Allegiance during the opening day ceremonies for the Stamford American Little League on Sunday. 5/3/2009 Given the bleak, damp weather it seemed unlikely that this Sunday I would be both consumed by Colson Whitehead's new Summer novel, Sag Harbor, and tasked with recording the events of a Little League's opening day. But as the rain continued unabated so did the familiar rituals; the color guard, the pledge, the first pitch, the blowing of bubblegum. Play ball. –CP

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