We’re Thinking Sunshine! Volunteer
As A Fresh Air Host Family
Fresh Air summers are fi lled with children running barefoot through the grass, gazing at star-fi lled skies and swimming for the fi rst time. This summer, join volunteer host families in the area Northwest of Boston, and open your heart and home to a Fresh Air child. Each summer, thousands of children from New York City’s low-income communities visit suburban, rural and small town communities along the East Coast and Southern Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Towns Program.
Harlen, age 9, has visited the Tornatore family for two summers. Host dad Albert shared, “Harlen has defi nitely learned to try new things. I remember our fi rst summer. He was nervous but by the end of the fi rst week, Harlen and my son were having adventures and having so much fun. We went to the aquarium, amusement park, and the kids love the beach.”
“My kids get so excited when they get to see Harlen. This summer we went to a drive-in movie, and we were all in the backseat with blankets, pillows and popcorn, snuggled together. Harlen is simply part of our family,” says host mom Allyson.
The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profi t agency, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Fresh Air children are boys and girls, from seven to 18 years old, who live in New York City. Children who are reinvited by host families may continue with The Fresh Air Fund through age 18 and can enjoy extended trips.
For more information about hosting a Fresh Air child this summer, please contact Lisa Sajedi at 978-760-0006 or visit
www.freshair.org.
Love’s Philosophy I.
The Fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law devine In one another’s being mingle— Why not I with thine?
II.
See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-fl ower would be forgiven If it disdain’d its brother: And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Berkshires’ Best Buys, Business & Beyond • February 7-20, 2017
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