Background color here is #cc8b65 - rusty orange

Color Palette - Muted - From Shutterstock.com      
          See the sample literary piece on bottom half of this page
           This is a test of a new palette for future use - by Mike - 11-7-22

Let me practice with new colors in the next few sections.   These colors came from Shutterstock,com.   

Palette Display from Shutterstock.com     Using their sample called # 29 - Muted          The background for this section is Alabaster #fcfcfa which is nearly white

Whitewash #ebeced
(from French Connection

#ebeced

Off-White #f7f1f0 

#f7f1f0

Mauve #c3a6a0

​#c3a6a0

Robust Orange  #a15c38 

 #a15c38

Chocolate brown # 262220

#262220

​FICTION

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

this is a Content color box with color Off-White from the Muted Shutterstock  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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