Background color here is #cbc5c1 - Cashmere

Color Palette - French Connection
          See the sample literary piece on bottom half of this page
           A demonstration with this original palette used on V&B for issues 1 to 10  - by Mike - 6-9-21

Let me practice with new colors in the next few sections.   These colors came from Canva.com, which Jane used to pick the first palette used on V&B.  
​This palette was used for most of Issues 1 to 10.     (Fall 2015 to Fall 2020)

Palette Display from Canva.com     Using their sample called French Connection            The background for this section is Alabaster #fcfcfa which is nearly white

Whitewash #ebeced

#ebeced

Pampas    #e6e5de  

#e6e5de

Denim  #4c586f

​#4c586f

Cashmere  #cbc5c1  

 #cbc5c1

Gunmetal  # 3e3e3b 

# 3e3e3b

​FICTION

Springtime   -   Weebly.com                                    

Springtime  -  
When a Young Man's Fancy Turns To  .   .   .   
by 
Nick Vitelli

this is a Content color box with color Whitewash from this French Connection color palette.    let's see if it is  ok for a text box

Sure!  I can remember a few years back when I was young.  Well, OK, maybe a little bit more than a few years ago.  But, still, I can remember some things.  

Can't you, Dear Reader? 

The grass in everybody's lawns was turning a little green. After a long cold winter. With snow, and icy roads, and the coal bins for the furnaces in the peoples' basements nearing empty.  And Gus, the delivery man for Atlas Coal Company was limping a little when you would see him come into the Rochester Coffee Shop.  For his mid-morning break.  

"Hey, Gus!" Maybelle, the longtime waitress at the coffee shop would yell out. "Ya got anything to keep me warm on these chilly nights?"

"Honey Chile," Gus would sometimes reply, "What I got, would give you a fever! And your old man wouldn't want you suffer that way agin."

Then, Maybelle would go up to Gus and give him a light kiss on his forehead. And they would both laugh.

I saw their act probably a hundred times when I was growing up in Rochester. Did you have any town characters like Gus and Maybelle? When you were growing up?    

(story could be continued)

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Nick Vitelli spent 40 years as a sports journalist.  He worked for Newsday, based in Long Island, NY when he first started in the field.  He worked for Inside Basketball for the last 10 years of his career.  He has been an OLLI member since 2018 and serves on the Curriculum Development Committee.

Other pieces in this Issue:  
Nonfiction​
Do You Really Want to Know? 
(The inside story of the 49ers)

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