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...Stafford Springs, Connecticut, was originally discovered by the Mohegan and Narraganset Indians, who said the waters made them feel lively. The springs contain iron held in solution by carbonic acid, native alkali, marine salt and sulfur. These chemicals, according to a local expert, give the spring waters "a strong ferruginous taste and when first drunk frequently occasion nausea, even to puking," but they are "best for skin afflictions and ulcers of all kinds, dropsies in the first stages, debility, weakness of eyes and several kinds of fits." The springs can be reached by a stagecoach that leaves from The Sign...
...Rick Stafford came to Harvard when he was 18 but he never took a course. Instead he's been working here full-time for the past 25 years. He feels he grew up here--he loves Harvard. His grandmother told him, "you either go to a big university or you work for one," but Rick hasn't gotten the education she hoped he would absorb from hanging around these ivy walls. He worked his way up from a caretakers job in the animal labs to his present position as photographer for the News Office. He wanted to be a photographer...
...pictures to take at the field and the Science Center and Bok's office all at the same time. You have to move quickly and figure how long something is going to be cooking and can I afford to be late for that or will I miss it," Stafford says. Now life is a little easier--he can send his lab assistant, Dave Bailey, on assignments if he has a real conflict. But he still can't do his job on a 9 to 5 schedule, so he misses his family often and feels bad because, financially, he says, "they...
...Rick Stafford often thought of leaving his public relations job and finding one that was more journalistic, or trying free-lance photography. But in January he was told he has been ill with diabetes and hypertension for a long time. As he lay in the hospital he mulled over his goals and his work, and the old dreams faded. "I thought about it for a while and decided I'm well-suited for what I'm doing and I like it. I don't mind the words 'Public Relations.' I like the University." So he'll stay here and dream...
Sarah Caldwell does not like photographers around when she's conducting, so Rick Stafford, peeking at her from the balcony above, knows he has a tough assignment on his hands. Caldwell is seated on a throne-like chair on the ground floor of the Busch-Reisinger Museum with her orchestra and chorus amassed before her. She bellows out instructions to the soloists on the balcony and all heads turn upward. Rick brings his camera to his eye and is very tempted to shoot while he can see their faces, but he can't risk being heard and ordered out before...