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Who Will the Jury Believe in the New England Prep School Rape Trial?
As the trial of former St. Paul's school student and alleged rapist Owen Labrie concludes, the outcome hinges on which side of the story the mostly male jury finds more credible.
by Susan Zalkind
Aug 28 2015, 4:00am
Owen Labrie testifies during his trial in Concord, New Hampshire. Labrie is charged with raping a 15-year-old freshman. Photo via AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool
Over the past week, national media outlets have been swarming over a quaint New Hampshire courthouse as a jury deliberates on a case involving two students from an elite prep school and the time-honored sex game that may have resulted in the rape of a 15-year-old girl. Owen Labrie, a 19-year-old St. Paul's graduate, is charged with raping a freshman two days before graduation, when he was 18. The encounter, which the girl said she at first entered into willingly, was part of what students on campus call Senior Salute—a tradition where in the last weeks of the school year, seniors reach out to younger students to hook up with them. The girl says she went with Labrie to the roof of a school building with the expectation that they would kiss.
Instead, she says, Labrie violently raped her in a room in the attic.
The case has pulled the curtain away from a sordid culture at one of the nation's most elite institutions. Senior Salute encounters, or "slays," as some members of the St. Paul's soccer team called them, were tallied on a school wall. And Labrie's statements to police and testimony from his classmates on the stand suggest some male students had turned the Senior Salute into a competition. Yet UNH Law Professor Buzz Scherr says the national fascination with the trial may boil down to a more basic curiosity.
"We're curious whether rich people, smart people, behave differently to us," he told local news station NH1.
But if you take away the pricey tuition and the decades-old ritual objectification of young girls, the St. Paul's trial essentially boils down to a standard acquaintance—or date rape—trial. These cases, legal experts say, are notoriously difficult to prosecute. Without witnesses to attest to specifics of the sexual encounter, the jury is essentially left to decide whether the alleged victim consented based on he-says-she-says arguments—a gut decision. And a juror's gut may have an ulterior motive. Although lawyers and judges try to weed out jurors with ingrained biases, the jury's assessment of whether or not the alleged victim is telling the truth, or if they even qualify as a victim, is frequently based on factors like gender.
Often, jurors will make a decision based on their own interest of self-preservation. In other words, they'll believe what they want to believe.
"Most jurors come in with a bias [of] not wanting to believe it could happen," says Carla Carlstrom, a prosecutor who specializes in assault cases in King County, Washington. "It's easier to think that it didn't happen or it's somehow the victim's fault."
Believability is a hurdle all alleged victims of date rape face in the courtroom. The now 16-year-old blonde teenager in this case, who spent much of this trial in tears, is no exception. Ultimately, the jury in New Hampshire v. Owen Labrie, consisting of nine men and three women—mostly white and middle-aged—will have to make a decision based on which teenager they think is full of shit.
Labrie faces up to 20 years each for three felony sexual assault charges.
Previously: A Rape Trial Is Revealing the Details of a Competitive Sex Ritual at an Elite New England Prep School
Before closing arguments on Thursday, prosecutors presented physical evidence, as well as testimony from students, school employees, experts, and police. The defense presented only one witness: Labrie himself.
At least until Labrie's testimony Wednesday, it seemed almost impossible for the defense to come up with a believable argument that he didn't penetrate the girl—which, because of their age, meant Labrie would likely be convicted of misdemeanor sexual assault under New Hampshire law.
A nurse testified that the alleged victim had a vaginal tear. Criminologists who examined the underwear she wore that night testified they found Labrie's DNA and sperm on the inside of her panties. Four of Labrie's friends took the stand and testified that Labrie told them he had sex with the girl. Before that, jurors heard about how Labrie made a list of the girls he wanted to "slay" and the girl's name was at the top in capital letters.
Then there are the Facebook messages Labrie sent to his friends.
"How'd it go from no to bone?" asked Tucker Marchese.
"Just pulled every trick in the book," replied Labrie.
The girl took the stand over the course of three days, and described in graphic detail how she says she was raped. Labrie was someone she only knew in passing, a friend of her big sister's, she said. After the cajoling of a mutual friend, she agreed to Labrie's request that she come with him to the roof of a school building for a Senior Salute.
In her testimony, the girl said she blamed herself for not being stronger, and for not saying no more forcefully.
After they spent a few minutes taking in the view, Labrie brought her back inside to the attic, a dark room roaring with the sound of the building's industrial machinery. Though she claims she said "no" three times and insisted on keeping her underwear on, the girl alleges that Labrie proceeded to finger her, "scraping" the inside of her body. When he began to lick her vagina, she says she "froze" and that he then proceeded to penetrate her with what she thought was his penis (she deduced this because she could see his hands). He then stopped to spit on her when wasn't able to get all the way in, she claims.
Later, when she messaged Labrie about wearing a condom, he replied that he wore one, and asked if she was on the pill. She was not.
"Praise jesus I put one on halfway," Labrie replied.
In her testimony, the girl said she blamed herself for not being stronger, and for not saying no more forcefully. Instead, she said she was polite to Labrie, before and after the alleged assault, because she didn't want "to come off as bitchy" to one of the most popular boys in school. Later she said she replied to his flirty messages because she was in denial, and didn't want him to contact her in person. "I wanted to tell myself that I had the control in this situation," she told the court.
Labrie has changed his appearance from last spring, when he was a shaggy-haired 18–year–old. He got a haircut, and at the trial wore a collection of navy and tweed sports coats, along with a pair of thick-rimmed glasses.
When he took the stand, Labrie told the court he was the only child of a broken family, that his mother is a school teacher, his father a landscaper. He had a full ride at St. Paul's, and had been on his way to Harvard, where he had won a scholarship and planned to eventually study divinity.
Perhaps it was because of those humble beginnings, at least compared to his trust fund baby peers, that Labrie became so devoted to steeping himself in St. Paul's culture. He was a prefect. He won a character award for his "selfless devotion to the school."
He also tried to excel in the school's more unseemly traditions, according to testimony from students at the trial and the messages they exchanged on Facebook.
What Labrie said next on the stand will either make jurors think he is a real-world version of the protagonist in The Talented Mr. Ripley or the victim of an elaborate plot: His invitation to the roof of the deserted Lindsay building wasn't really a Senior Salute, he said. "It was my understanding that Senior Salutes were between two students who sort of missed each other and hadn't had time to connect." This was different, because he knew the girl, he said, and they were "friends."
"I wanted to ask her out," he told jurors.
Except for a "romantic" scene that Labrie painted of the couple exploring old school artifacts, up until the point of alleged penetration, Labrie's and the girl's stories more or less match up. There was kissing, and dry humping, though the duo's interpretations differ. Labrie "thought she was having a great time," while the girl insisted she he was petrified. He described romantic foreplay, and she said he was "chewing" on her breasts.
But where Labrie's story and the alleged victim's really diverge is on the question of contraception. He says sex was something the two of them "talked about performing"—before he had second thoughts. When Labrie first spoke to police last year, before his arrest, he described it as a moment of "divine inspiration," and said he had "sprinted" off with the condom still on.
In court, he added that he may have also prematurely ejaculated.
"I had a second thought while I was looking down trying to put on a condom," he said. Though he claims the girl seemed interested in going to the next step, he decided sex was not a "smooth" thing to do in that situation. "I lost of little bit of my erection standing there," Labrie added.
He went on to say he suggested to the girl that they should "check the time," that they realized they were late for an acapella concert, kissed, got dressed and left. As he was walking to the concert, Labrie said he realized the condom was still on and discovered his "shorts were wet."
When the girl later asked him about birth control, Labrie told jurors, he was just trying to comfort her, and thought she may have felt some of the precum too.
In a classic defense move in rape trials, his lawyers says the alleged victim is simply not credible.
In his own way, Labrie accounts for all the evidence. And in a classic defense move in rape trials, his lawyers says the alleged victim is simply not credible.
The girl's roommate told police that before the encounter, she said, "I'll probably let him finger me and at most I'll blow him."
The defense attorney recalled to jurors that when he asked her about this, she told him, "I don't remember." This, Labrie's high-powered defense attorney Jay Carney said in his closing statements, was evidence that she "deliberately and intentionally lied to you under oath."
In his closing, prosecutor Joe Cherniske responded, "So what? Does that mean she can't change her mind?
"She can agree to kissing without being fingered," the prosecutor added. "She can agree to taking off her pants without taking off her underwear."
Carney dealt with the most damning testimony against his client—the accounts from four of the accused's friends who testified that Labrie told them he had sex with the 15-year-old—by saying that the young man had lied to his buddies. Sperm got on the girl's underwear because he prematurely ejaculated while dry humping, said Carney; it was embarrassing, and his client didn't want to tell his friends, "I think I might have prematurely ejaculated in my shorts, [and] then when I got up to get a condom, my penis was losing my erection, so I said I don't know I think we better head out."
Carney also conceded that Labrie exaggerated about his sexual escapades regularly while making nice with the mostly male jury.
"I'm not trying to be a traitor to my gender here," he said, adding that lots of men exaggerate about these sorts of things.
But will playing a diluted " boys will be boys" argument—that they brag about objectifying minors but don't actually do it—work with a jury that's 75 percent male? One might argue Carney—and Labrie—would have been better off with a majority female jury.
"Women are harder on other women, they're just much harder," Lisa Friel, the prosecutor in charge of New York City's Sex Crime unit from 2007 to 2011, said in a 2011 documentary called Sex Crimes. The National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence reports that many prosecutors share this belief as well.
A 2004 study by the American Journal of Criminal Justice—"Women's hostility toward women in rape trials: Testing the intra-female gender hostility thesis"—found that more than any other factor, the gender composition of a jury can predict which way its members will rule in rape trials. And female jurors are significantly more skeptical of women who allege rape than male jurors are.
The reason for this bias, the study suggests, is because of an unconscious desire not to believe sexual assault could happen to them. "Because women find rape threatening, they may try to increase the psychological distance between themselves and the victim," the authors conclude. Women who have experienced some form of sexual assault without realizing it may try to diminish their own trauma by diminishing the impact that a similar event may have had on someone else.
Carlstrom says that in her own work, she tries to look for "individual jurors" and weed out biases in both men and women. Her main concern trying date rape cases involving young people is looking for jurors who "know what kids do and don't do." Most worrisome are "old-fashioned people," or those who don't understand the modern-day hook-up culture.
(Save for one youthful-looking man with a shaved head, the jury in New Hampshire appears to be entirely middle-aged, and it's not clear the nine members are as excited about this case as the national media is. One juror reportedly fell asleep during the testimony of an ER doctor. Another asked for a bathroom break during the prosecution's closing arguments.)
Earlier in his direct examination, Labrie told the court "scoring" was synonymous with dating. And "slaying" a girl didn't mean sex, it could be as innocent as a kiss.
The prosecution pulled up a letter to his friends asking them to join him on "an exploration into the innermost meaning of the word sleeze-bag."
"You would agree that it would take a sleeze-bag to take advantage of a 15-year-old girl?" asked Prosecutor Joe Cherniske.
"Yes," said Labrie.
"It would take a sleeze-bag to have sex with a 15-year-old girl?" asked Cherniske.
"It would take a sleeze-bag to slay a 15-year-old girl?"
"Not necessarily."
"Right," retorted Cherniske. "Because that would mean a walk in the park."
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Rail regulatory reform: What can Indonesia learn from Australia?
13 May 2013 - Ken Devencorn, Aurecon's Rail Leader, will be sharing insights from Australia's 20-year journey to rail regulatory reform and the lessons Indonesia can draw from its experience at the inaugural Australasian Railway Association (ARA) Heavy Haul Rail Indonesia 2013 conference.
The conference will take place at the Hotel Borobudur, in Jakarta, Indonesia from 15–16 May 2013.
Two decades ago, the Hilmer Report precipitated an economic revolution in Australia leading to fundamental changes in the business of rail, telecommunications, ports, water, local government, and electricity. This regulatory reform has been internationally identified as one of the power-house strategies of Australian international competitiveness.
Professor Frederick Hilmer led the National Competition Policy Review Committee, established in 1992 by then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating to undertake an independent Inquiry into a national competition policy. Studies by the Australian Productivity Commission have shown that the Hilmer reforms delivered a substantial boost to productivity. Today Indonesian rail is poised where Australia was at the start of this same road to regulatory reform.
Severe road congestion is hampering Indonesia's economic development with cities choking under the cost and community burden of a road-based economy. Road transport is the predominant freight and passenger mode, accounting for about 70 per cent of freight tonne/km and 82 per cent of passenger/km (Source: World Bank).
A move towards greater use of rail (heavy haul, freight, and passenger) can help significantly reduce road congestion, the cost of goods to market, traffic fatalities, and greenhouse gas production. Indonesia's newly enacted Railway Law and other regulations provide support for this modal shift to grow rail transport from its current sub 10 per cent base.
But Australia made many false steps in its transport economic development. Ken said: "Indonesia is in a wonderful position to learn from Australia's mistakes and see the benefits of our competition reform journey from 20 years on.
"There is a strong possibility that Indonesia will rapidly catch-up and perhaps mature to where Australia is in a four to five year period, with Australian lessons providing a good path to follow and useful insights to sidestepping some of the not-so-obvious obstacles along the way."
The conference will be held in association with Indonesia's sole operator, Kereta API and will examine the challenges and opportunities in planning, funding and constructing a heavy haul network for Indonesia, including the unique operational challenges for the region. The conference provides an avenue for the global rail industry to explore significant opportunities that exist off the back of Indonesia's growing coal trade.
Aurecon is a leading practitioner in rail across delivery, rail infrastructure design, rail economics, simulation and modelling, and operations development. Aurecon prides itself on being able to provide complete design services across all phases of the rail project delivery chain, founded on sound operational deliverables.
A review of Australia's 20-year journey to rail regulatory reform and the lessons Indonesia can draw from its experience
Presented by: Ken Devencorn
Conference day one: Wednesday 15 May 2013 at 2.40
If you would like to attend, please visit the conference website.
If you are unable to attend, please visit Aurecon's rail services page to find out more about our offerings or contact Ken directly.
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In all, Ramani captured 2900 line kilometres of road and over 580,000 panoramic images which will all be used for map validation and asset collection.
All this data capture is useless unless there's an easy-to-use tool available for the Production team and end clients to view and analyse the data. Ramani are using a variety of viewers, including XMAP, tuned for simple map viewing all the way through to workflow-driven data extraction. The Online Services team have been fine-tuning these tools.
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The XCAM G1 is available for other companies around the world to adopt for short or long term projects. Simply contact the GeoXphere team for more information.
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János Vilmos  pfalzi választófejedelem 1690 és 1716 között.

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A pfalzi örökösödési háború miatt nem a heidelbergi várkastélyben hanem a düsseldorfi kastélyban élt.

János Vilmos 1697-ben megkötötte a rijswijki békeszerződést XIV. Lajos francia királlyal.

Düsseldorfot János Vilmos  alatt újjáépítették (de az öccse, III. Károly Fülöp, elköltöztette székhelyét újra Heidelbergbe).

Házasságai, gyermekei
1678. október 25-én Bécsújhelyen János Vilmos feleségül vette Habsburg Mária Anna Jozefa főhercegnőt, III. Ferdinánd császár leányát. A házasságból fiúgyermek született, mindketten meghaltak születésük órájában:

 ismeretlen nevű fiú (*/† Düsseldorf, 1683. február 6.)
 ismeretlen nevű fiú (*/† Bécs, 1686. február 5.)

Mária Anna Jozefa  1689. április 14-én Bécsben meghalt.

1691-ben János Vilmos másodszor is megnősült, április 29-én képviselők útján Firenzében, majd június 5-én Düsseldorfban személyesen is feleségül vette Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici toszkánai hercegnőt (1667–1743), III. Cosimo de' Medici nagyherceg leányát. Gyermekeik nem születtek.

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In May 2014, Colorlines began our Life Cycles of Inequity series. Over seven installmants, we have explored the ways in which inequity shapes the lives of black men, from high school forward. This week, we conclude the series with a hard, but necessary conversation about mortality.
The sad reality is that life itself is both raced and gendered in the United States. Black Americans overall die earlier than all other racial and ethnic groups, and the lifespans of black men in particular lag far behind that of the rest of the nation. Strikingly, that disparity most profound in our nation's capital, where the racial gap in life expectancy is the larger than any state in the country. One reason for that depressing statistic in Washington, D.C., is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. And in the video above, the final in our series, two HIV positive men living in D.C. share their own journeys and lessons on how to stay healthy and stay alive as black men.
If you've not viewed our entire video series, we urge you to visit our Life Cycles of Inequity page, where you can view all of them. There, you can also dive into the investigations, infographics, essays and reportage that accompanied each installment. We developed this series as part of an ongoing conversation about our nation's respect for the value of black life–not as the final word in that conversation. So we hope that the videos and stories we've published over the past year will fuel and inform you, as you carry this urgent conversation forward in your own communities.


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England's so-called 'lock and key' port is experiencing a renaissance – an expert's guide to Dover
The iconic White Cliffs of Dover Credit: iStock
Eleanor Keymer
29 November 2018 • 4:52pm
Why go?
With its iconic cliffs, captivating castle and smattering of Roman ruins, Dover has always been more than a gateway to the continent. Nevertheless, this busy port town has undergone something of a renaissance of late. Large-scale investments are funding a burgeoning bar and restaurant scene, transforming the waterfront, and creating a new marina pier, meaning there are plenty of places to explore before, during or after your cruise.
Cruise port location
The town of Dover nestles between the Western Docks, where Dover's two cruise terminals can be found, and the Eastern Docks, where passenger ferries depart for Europe.
The Port of Dover is the UK's second largest passenger port after Southampton, and is used by 20 cruise lines including Fred Olsen and Saga. Cruise ships dock alongside three berths; soon to be four following a £250 million redevelopment project to be completed in 2019. Terminal two is used by the larger cruise ships while Terminal one is located in the former Marine Railway Station, which still retains many of its original features.
Can I walk to any places of interest?
Frequent shuttle buses drop passengers at the Market Square in the centre of town. Once in the town, the majority of sights are within walking distance of each other.
Dover is compact enough to walk around although there is a reliable bus network linking the main streets. Taxis and buses can take you up to the top of the cliffs and the castle.
Dover Castle, another Norman engineering feat Credit: iStock
Dover is approximately 70 miles from London and, if you are driving, take the M20 motorway which merges into the A20 at Folkestone. Follow the road and you will see signposts to the Dover Cruise Terminals.
Trains frequently depart from London St Pancras to Dover Priory station and take approximately 65 minutes. It is about a 25-minute walk between the station and the cruise terminals, so a taxi is advised. Gatwick is the nearest international airport which is approximately 78 miles from Dover (a one hour and 20 minute drive) via the M20 and M25 motorways.
For those wanting a luxury stay in the centre of town, the Best Western Dover Marina Hotel and Spa is located on the seafront with excellent access to the cruise terminals and a first-class restaurant and spa on site.
The historic city of Canterbury drips in Chaucer-soaked charm Credit: iStock
Another city centre offering is the family-run Hubert House Bed and Breakfast; a Grade 2-listed Georgian townhouse situated in a quiet square close to the port with single, twin, double and family rooms available.
Located just outside Dover in the pretty village of St Margaret's at Cliffe, The White Cliffs Hotel is a 16th century inn offering 16 rooms, a popular restaurant, strong links to the local community and the occasional art exhibition.
What can I do in four hours or less?
If you're tight on time, head to the Dover Museum in the centre of town and marvel at the remains of a Bronze Age boat thought to have sailed the seas some 3,000 years ago. Combine this trip with a visit to the Roman Painted House with its impressive murals and informative displays. Staffed by volunteers, it is worth calling ahead to check opening times.
Visiting Broadstairs is always a pleasure, because it's like stepping back in time Credit: iStock
Alternatively take a short taxi ride to Dover Castle where adults and kids alike will love the recreated medieval palace, spooky tunnels and incredible sea views.
What can I do in eight hours or less?
With more time, passengers can really stretch their legs with a bracing walk along the famed White Cliffs of Dover. If you're feeling energetic, you can walk to the Langdon Cliffs and back (two miles east of Dover) or St. Margaret's Bay (four miles east of Dover), while there are a myriad of shorter paths skirting the cliff tops for those who don't want to venture too far.
While on the cliff top, you can explore Fan Bay Deep Shelter tunnel complex on a guided tour, which served as accommodation for an artillery battery during World War II.
Explore Leeds Castle which is known as "the loveliest castle in the world" Credit: iStock
Families, meanwhile, will love the South Foreland Lighthouse with its kite-flying opportunities, giant games played on the extensive lawns and excellent tea shop.
Further afield, popular day-long excursions include exploring Canterbury with its magnificent cathedral, cobbled streets and timber-framed houses or Hastings with its 11th century castle and Battle Abbey built on the famous 1066 battlefields (located eight miles north of the town). Art lovers should head to the Jerwood Gallery, found in the picturesque old town.
Leeds Castle, known for its associations with Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is in beautiful location with extensive gardens, including a maze, and year-round family-friendly events.
Sunset in Dover Credit: iStock
What can I do with a bit longer?
Although you can easily travel from London to Dover, early arrivals should explore the glorious Kent countryside before embarking on their cruise. There are some charming seaside towns such as Margate and Broadstairs, with their independent shops and boutique hotels, fascinating maritime heritage sites such as the Historic Dockyard Chatham, and, perhaps unsurprisingly given that Kent is called the Garden of England, an abundance of gardens such as those at the home of Charles Darwin.
Unsurprisingly, seafood is the order of the day in Dover. You can sample the town's namesake, Dover sole, at the Hythe Bay Seafood Restaurant, located on the beach for the freshest of catches.
In a further nod to the up-and-coming food scene, the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has recently opened not one, but two, new restaurants in Dover. Wheeler's Fish and Chips lends itself to a more relaxed dining experience while Mr. White's English Chophouse serves meaty favourites in elegant surroundings.
Stop to admire the South Foreland Lighthouse, the first lighthouse to have been lit by electricity Credit: iStock
Don't leave Dover without…
Purchasing nautical knick knacks and history-themed souvenirs at specialist shops in the town centre, at the Dover Museum shop or at the Dover Castle Visitor Centre. That said, your best present maybe the photographs you take atop the cliffs gazing over at our continental cousin.
Most visits are trouble free, if you take the usual precautions.
Cruise departures run from February to November. The annual Dover Community Regatta takes place on the August Bank Holiday weekend where you can watch nautical races, wander along the seafront sampling local food and drink and stock up on local crafts and produce.
Most museums and shops open daily.
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The May 25 Grayslake Late Night Flea Market welcomes Parker Stevenson!
His first notable screen appearance was a starring role in the 1972 movie A Separate Peace and it was then that he was first credited as Parker Stevenson. After graduating from Brooks School and Princeton University, where he studied architecture, he moved to Hollywood and landed a role opposite Sam Elliott in the 1976 film Lifeguard.
Stevenson became well known from starring with teen heartthrob Shaun Cassidy in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries series, produced by Glen A. Larson's production company through MCA-Universal Television (now NBCUniversal) under license from the Stratemeyer Publication Syndicate, from 1977 to 1979 on ABC. In 1983, he co-starred in the movie Stroker Ace as Burt Reynolds's brash race-car driving nemesis, Aubrey James. The film was a critical and financial failure.
In 1986, Stevenson starred as Billy Hazard in the television miniseries North and South: Book II. He co-starred with his then-wife Kirstie Alley, who portrayed his sister Virgilia Hazard. He starred on the short-lived 1988 TV series Probe in the lead role of Austin James. He was part of the original cast of Baywatch in the 1989 season, returning for the syndicated 1997 and 1998 seasons. He had a recurring role as a computer tycoon on Melrose Place during the second season. He starred in Legion. In 2014 he had a guest role on the Western/Mystery series Longmire.
Stevenson has been a photographer since he was young; his work can be found at his photography website, shadowworks.
The May 25 event will be held at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 1060 E. Peterson Rd., Grayslake, IL 60030. The event hours are 3pm to Midnight. Parker Stevenson will be present to greet guests from approximately 3pm to 10pm. Times subject to change. Please call 715-526-9769 or visit our page at https://www.zurkopromotions.com/grayslake-illinois-moon-liter-flea-market/ for more information.