Interview by Marianna Randazzo

GMM : Tell us about your lives before your year long sojourn in Italy.

We were retired, but involved in our community on Long Beach Island, NJ. Both of us were volunteers at the LBI Foundation for the Arts & Sciences. We chaired fundraising events and Nancy enjoyed working at the clay studio where she was exploring sculpture. John was on their board and started the Science Initiative, to put more science into their offerings. We started a winter lecture series called Science Saturday. In summer we created Barnegat Bay Day, to educate islanders and visitors about the environment. And with a small group of other volunteers we wrote a small book about the island's ecology and what people would do to preserve it.

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