Three calendar weeks will do most of the work this summer. If you live here, you already feel the first one pulling tight: bunting going up on Prospect Street, the carnival rigging on Wednesday morning, the smell of fryer oil and fresh donuts crossing Washington. After that, two more big weeks define what comes next, and the gaps between them are where most of the season actually happens.
This is not a list of forty things to do. It is a map of how the summer is shaped, written for the people already living inside it.
The Three Dates That Shape Everything Else
Plan the rest of the season around these and the in-between weeks become easier to use.
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