Missing Those Long, Hot Camp Visits:
I never went to camp, and had my parents tried to send me, I would have had Marxian – Groucho, not Karl – sentiments about going to some camp dumb enough to accept me.
Shoppers know Michael Givelekian as the good natured, ever-smiling, charismatic jeweler and salesperson at Royal Jewels of Rye. He embarked on his career five years ago when he started working with his father John, the master jeweler and owner of the shop at 56 Purchase Street. Michael’s apprenticeship, however, began long before.
The intricate and whimsical paper sculptures of Irving Harper will be shown in a solo exhibit at the Rye Arts Center this fall.