I know the new season is underway because the Blue Moon
has been reopened for several weeks now, and just recently Lori’s Café
reopened in the CAMP courtyard, but with all the snow and ice of the last
few weeks, I’m having a little trouble believing that spring is really
just around the corner. We did venture out into the “blizzard of
2003,” however, because Kelley Harp was hosting a birthday party for her
four year old son Brandon at Cloud 9 and had asked if I would be a clown.
With the town closed up tight for the storm, the few people out did double
takes when they saw me fighting my way through the snow drifts in clown
face. With the kids on the dance floor, and the bar open for the adults,
it was actually a great way to wait out the storm.
Another harbinger of
spring was the annual Beach House Rush Party in Washington. The Rush Party
provides a venue where those with beach houses to rent or those looking to
join a beach house group can get together. More importantly, however, it
was a great opportunity for summer friends to see one another and get
ready for a new season at the beach. This year, the Love 2003 committee,
under the direction of Bill Alldredge, joined CAMP Rehoboth in producing
this event. My thanks to Bill and company for their hard work. On a
related topic—Beach households wishing to be included in this year’s
Beach Book can find a form on page 68 of this issue, or on our Web site at
camprehoboth.com.
One of the most exciting
projects of CAMP Rehoboth continues to be our plans to build a bigger and
better Community Center on our present location. On May 31, our annual
Community Center Founders’ Circle event, The Black and White Beach Ball,
will again take place at the Atlantic Sands on Baltimore Avenue. As a part
of that event we will again be auctioning fifteen paintings created
especially for the event. This year’s theme of “Summer Love,” and a
diverse group of artists, promises to make the 2003 HeART of the Community
art project another success. Cards produced from last year’s paintings
are still available as a boxed set at CAMP Rehoboth. For information about
the Community Center, The Founders’ Circle, or The HeART of the
Community Art Project, contact Andrea Andrus at CAMP Rehoboth.
The CAMP Rehoboth
Women’s Project’s third annual conference is the next event on the
CAMP horizon, and with all the hard work going into its production, I know
it is going to be another big success. With entertainment both Friday and
Saturday nights, numerous workshops all day on Saturday, and a Brunch on
Sunday, the weekend of April 11-13 will be a busy one. For more
information on the Conference and related events see page 6. For
reservations, call or stop by the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center.
Murray
and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary this summer (which is why this
year’s Sundance will be called The Silver Rainbow, though that’s a
story for another day). Like most couples, we’ve developed our own
little habits, like time in the mornings to feed the dog, exercise, drink
our coffee, and discuss the state of the world. With the “state of the
world” not so good these days, we’ve found ourselves turning to some
of our favorite things as a means of escape. Being good gay men, one of
those things is, of course, the musical, and especially the musical of the
moment, Chicago. With its great cast, direction, and fast paced editing,
it’s a wonderful movie (whether you like musicals or not) and well
deserving of its 13 Academy Award nominations. More importantly, it seems
to have come at just the right time to get us all out of our winter
doldrums. How can the day not be better when you start it with someone you
love and “All That Jazz!”
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