NY TIMES VOWS COLUMN COMES TO MAPLEWOOD

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The famed New York Times Vows column, a staple of many brides' and would-be brides' Sunday news diet, threw some love to Maplewood today, specifically Prospect Church.

This week's rather lengthy column offered the story of 70-somethings Margie Goldsmith and Jamie Anthony, who got hitched at the church last month.

The story revealed, in part:

Margie Goldsmith is known for her firecracker energy and a keen sense of adventure. One friend recalled that the lithe Ms. Goldsmith entered a triathlon in Cuba so that she could explore the country on an athlete’s visa. Another remembered that after she learned the rudiments of playing blues harp, she would perform exuberantly on her harmonica at every opportunity — with Pygmies in Uganda, at a pub in Ireland, at a bar in New York.

Jamie Anthony is tall and courtly. A longtime friend said Mr. Anthony, a Sandy Springs, Ga., native and a retired insurance executive, had the quintessence of charm and the bearing of “a gentleman of the South.” Now 71, his three major passions are family, motorcycles and producing and listening to blues bands.

But what initially brought these two people together, on July 3, 2012, was a message telescoped by a T-shirt.

Read the rest HERE.