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...patient who was particularly inspired by Levenson was Janice Munro, a former nurse who had bilateral breast cancer. When Munro arrived for her first radiation session four years ago, she spotted Levenson in the corner, painting. "There was so much energy and life in those murals, and that's what I wanted back in my life," she recalls. "When I looked at his murals, I forgot about the cancer and felt healthy. He lives life to its fullest every single day, and I realized that's what I had to do too." Today Munro, 62, acts as Levenson's assistant...
...Massachusetts College of Art but left during the Depression. The only work he could find was shining shoes, working in ditches installing water pipes, felling trees and stripping hides in a tannery. After landing a job during the New Deal with the federal Works Progress Administration, he helped paint two historical murals in Danvers, one depicting the battle of Bunker Hill...
Then there's the commercial aspect. The rise in creative holiday celebrations coincides with the coming of age of the events-planning industry. "Twenty years ago, events planning was in its infancy. Today you can get a college degree in it," says Howard Givner, president of Paint the Town Red, an event-planning company in New York City. Add to that the multitude of sophisticated consumers who put a premium on their time. "It's worth it to many boomers to pay someone else to do the work," says Givner. "In the end, a turkey's a turkey. Who cares...
...entrepreneur a lot of potential for growth. "People thought I was crazy, a girly-girl like me who is careful with her hair and makeup working with truckers and going into such a 'guy' kind of business," says Letizia, who has two grown children. "But I don't paint, garden or sew, and I wanted to make my mark on the world in a way that made sense to me, even if not to everyone else...
...what the city got was a collection of eyesores: about a hundred World War II--vintage barracks and buildings with asbestos in their ceilings and yellow lead paint flaking from their walls. Most of the acreage has no water or sewer lines to support new buildings. Federal and local money to rebuild, plus add roads, has been slow to arrive; so far, only $4.2 million has been spent. "Down here the land has no value because it has no real infrastructure," explains Sandy Sanders, executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority. The vacant post, Sanders says, wound up being...