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Combining words and images in a narrative of love and new beginnings, A Party at Silver Beach situates the reader at a party where visual images of the guests lead to their words. By clicking on graphic images of guests, objects, or views from the windows, you move through the story like a guest at a party -- speaking to some guests, overhearing the conversations of others. As if at a real party, you are invited to either stay for only a short time or to spend a longer time. As at any party, where many of the guests are strangers, you are likely to discover only a few of the mysteries of their lives. Lovers come and go, missing each other, finding each other. And sporadic dark conversations punctuate the generally joyous experience of the celebration of the wedding of a painter and a curator. Simulating your arrival at a party, the first room you enter offers multiple entry ways to other rooms -- with more than one icon leading elsewhere. In the other rooms, only the icon directly before the ? leads to another room. The ? always leads to the table of contents and guide to the work. (which you are now reading) If you use Explorer, icons which lead to text which has not been viewed are bordered in red. (note that it sometimes takes a while for the border to disappear after the text associated with the icon has been accessed.) 1. The main room: The story begins in the main room of a house by the sea where the wedding celebration of Dorothy Abrona McCrae and Sid Seibelman is in progress.
2. The front deck:
"in the sun, the afterglow of the champagne, 3. A side deck: "so I started with the idea that World War II loomed larger in our lives than either of us have ever openly acknowledged" 4. The beach: "two women sitting side by side..." 5. The gallery: "the gallery reflects our marriage" 6. The main room: "Will you dance with me?"
The brief quotes from songs in file two are from the Album
A Party at Silver Beach
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Dorothy Abrona McCrae
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