I attended the Pell Awards at The Foundry in Providence as guests of Nuala and Dallas Pell. Liza Minnelli was honored for lifetime achievement in the arts, and a crowd of more than 400 turned out for the event, which has benefited the Trinity Repertory Company since the first award, the year after Claiborne's retirement. Besides Nuala and her daughter, Grandson Clay attended (pictured with his grandmother and aunt), along with longtime aides Jan Demers (pictured with Clay and Minnelli) and Dennis Riley and his wife, Senators Jack Reed (who was instrumental in the biography) and Sheldon Whitehouse Academy Award-nominated actor Richard Jenkins, Providence mayor David Cicilline, and many more. With me in the photo beneath the poster of Pell is Yolanda.
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