Guess what I found in the NY Times achives?

I was searching the archives for the New York Times and found this wonderful article from 1992 with references to a couple of people that I didn't know then -- but have since had the great fortune to become friends with.

...And one person especially that I was VERY fortunate to marry 3 years later :-)

Baha'i Faithful Prepare for World Congress

"...Some 30,000 Baha'is from around the world are expected at the four-day gathering, which marks 100 years since the death of the Baha'i prophet, Baha'u'llah. It is only the second world congress in the history of the faith; the first was in London in 1963. There are five million Baha'is in the world, 110,000 of them in the United States and fewer than 1,500 in the Greater New York area.

Brad Pokorny, a spokesman for the Baha'i gathering, said New York was chosen because it is the home of many races and religions. "We want to show the world that there can be unity out of this diversity," he said."

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"...One dancer, Frank Robinson Jr., a 24-year-old student from Plainville, Conn., wore a bandanna around his head. He said that Baha'is accept the larger culture as long as "it doesn't remove you from God."

"Our goal is to have salvation in the world, not in isolation," he said. "If we were to live in isolation it wouldn't do the world much good."

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"...Baha'is reach out through periodic home gatherings they call Firesides. At one such meeting earlier this week in Highland, N.Y., near New Paltz, N.Y, 18 men and women sat in Christine Krug's living room. Dan Nossa, 18, spoke about the Baha'i notion of "progressive revelation," which contends that God sends messengers to earth in each era and that the prophecy of each builds on that by predecessors."

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