Yoon S. Byun

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Members of the Zanesville Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society practice in the basement before performing at the Twin City Opera House in McConnelsville, OH.
   
Angela Fowler playfully misses while spoon feeding her fiance, Frank Hook at The Blue Bell Diner. "I hate it here," says Hook bluntly, a McConnelsville, OH native and auto mechanic who moved away to a nearby larger city, Zanesville but recently moved back. "I'm moving here to start my life with you," he says to Fowler, his former client and now girlfriend for one month.
  
"Shake your booty," says Jeannette Cox, 12, to Morgan Bizeau, 12, center, at the Hilltop Farm Fest in Suffield, CT. Proceeds go toward supporting the Friends of the Farm organization made up of volunteers and toward making Hilltop farm a premier agricultural facility and learning center.
     
  
Meredith Manning, of Portland, ME, left, and Pam Grady, of Augusta, ME, right, stand with General Mills mascots before the beginning of the Nextel Cup in Loudon, NH.
   
Polar plunge participants charge toward the ocean on Saturday afternoon at the oceanfront in Virginia Beach, VA.
   
Natalia Mikhailova and Arkadi Sergeev of Russia compete during the Ice Dancing Original Dance Tango competition during Skate America at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, CT. The pair placed 10th overall.
     
  
Nikki LaRossa of the Southington YMCA competes during the floor competition for a USA Gymnastics meet at Old Academy School in Glastonbury, CT.
   
"It hits home for everybody," says Maryann Kurth-Garza holding her daughter Mia Garza, 6, both of Windsor, during a community 9/11 remembrance ceremony called "Windsor Walk of Light" on the town green in Windsor, CT. On this fifth anniversary of 9/11 each of the 2,973 luminary bags represented a person who lost their life on 9/11 and were decorated by Windsor residents of all ages.
   
Waterbury firefighter Nate Schulde rests on the floor after finishing with a 6:06 minute time up 37 flights of stairs which he completed wearing his helmet and jacket at CityPlace in Hartford, CT during Lea's Foundation's Giant Steps for Research: The Big Climb Fundraiser. Schulde had the overall best time in the competitive time staircase and his fire unit as a team came in first place. In its seventh year running, participants, either as individuals or groups, climbed the steps of CityPlace and raised $26,927 supporting Lea's Foundation's goal to find a cure for leukemia and related diseases.
     
  
Tour guide Josh Wolff, of Big Onion tours, talks to his group about the Eldridge Street Synagogue on the lower east side at the beginning of the tour in New York, NY.
   
Deyanira Goiz, 10, greets her sister, Quetzali Goiz, 3, as Quetzali wakes up in their parents bedroom. The Goiz family has been in New Britain for eight years, and are part of a growing Mexican community in New Britain, CT. The family was in New York for three years before New Britain.
   
Freshly picked flowers sit in a vase at an alternative nursing home in Peabody, MA. Four elderly people, strangers to each other with the exception of two sisters, moved into a ranch style home filling their days with day care, knitting, crossword puzzles and other activities. Part of the intention with the home is to give the group a sense of independence as well as a sense of home.