6. When I left the Blue Moon, I headed over to the Jasper Street Art Center where I often worked for a few hours in the late afternoon helping Elsie with office work. I needed to save as much money for college as I could over the summer, even though whether I was going to college at all was still a subject for debate in the Silva household. Neither of my parents had been to college and only one of my three older brothers had had any interest in going. And even Michael only made it as far as Cape Cod Community College. I had higher aspirations. I wanted to get off-Cape and go to a real art school. JSAC was irresistible to me and I would have helped Elsie even if she wasn’t paying me for it. I loved wandering through the closed gallery and sniffing around the pungent studios where so many young artists had started their careers. I loved being a part of the place, belonging to it, at least a little bit. Finn’s and Tess’s parents, Elsie McGavrock and Rudolph Rosenberg, had moved from New York City to Provincetown twenty years ago to open the Art Center on the grounds of a sprawling old inn they’d purchased with the proceeds from Rudolph’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.
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