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Bostonians Rachel and Tom Claflin wanted to go to California last Christmas to visit three of their children. But what about Tom's parents, who lived three blocks away and, at 86 and 89, couldn't manage on their own? No problem. Rachel and Tom were able to take their trip, secure in the knowledge that the elder Claflins had volunteers available to check on them daily, a round-the-clock emergency phone line and access to discounted nursing care, drivers and home repair, among other services...
...annual income of less than $45,000). "Even though my in-laws live three blocks away and we help them in a variety of ways, it alleviates some tension to know that they have someone in the neighborhood who can help them out if they need anything," says Rachel, an artist who helped found the organization and serves on its board. "Novel concepts like Beacon Hill Village can really help people take care of their aging parents...
Even the work of Rachel St. Hilaire, the professional artist at the center of a show otherwise comprised of student art, engages in a similar sort of dialogue with its viewers...
...temperature" of the last three years, says co-curator Judith Nesbitt. And she senses some powerful currents in the work of artists of all ages and career stages, one being "the interrogation of the everyday." As well as Ataman's flower fanatic and Yokomizo's Strangers, there is Rachel Whiteread's plaster casting of the inside of a flat and the space under a staircase. Margaret Barron paints tiny cityscapes on adhesive tape that are stuck on handy surfaces somewhere near the actual locations. Several are sited in the Tate environs, at risk of being peeled off or fly-posted...
Abby Gardner, Beauty Director of YM Magazine, and Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, also presented at the seventh annual public forum, entitled “Body Image, Culture, and the Media: Shaping the Women of Tomorrow...