Joie de Livres a gallery/bookstore in a comfortable space at the back of Salisbury Wines was the scene on Saturday evening, August 7, of the opening of an exhibition of photography by the renowned photojournalist Ida Wyman, 84, who flew east for the occasion from Madison, Wisconsin.

Three generations: Nancy Nathan, up from New York, her mother, the photographer Ida Wyman, and Nathan's daughter Heather Garrison who, along with Wyman, lives in Madison, Wisconsin.


Ahsley Rowe and Turi Rostad, artist and owner of the gallery Turi's on the Green, in Norfolk; Becky Belcher, and her husband Peter Feen, co-owners of the soon-to-open Peter Becks Village Store in Salisbury, with Warren Carter


Donna Aceto, Ida Wyman, and Jody Potter; gallery owner Meredith McGregor with Megan Huddleston


Scott Garrison and Jan Shepard; Thomas Grogan and S. Michael Austin


Deborah Sherman and Kevin Flach; Helen Simon and Ida Wyman
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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