Last Sunday, hundreds gathered along the river to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox with music, poetry, and an improvisational sax serenade from an illuminated sun-moon boat floating down the Charles. The Revels RiverSing drew an eclectic crowd of families, friends, and lovers—so our Roving Reporter went to talk to pairs of revelers about, well, each other.

Nita D. Sembrowich ’79 and Michael Higgins

Roving Reporter: Can you tell me how you two met?

Nita: We live in a co-op in Riverside and that’s how we met. Michael always says we met by the garbage cans. I moved in in ’94 and you moved in in...’86?

RR: Why did you decide to live in the co-op?

Michael: We had some control over our destinies.

Nita: We didn’t have to deal with landlords.

RR: And Michael, what would you say is your favorite thing about Nita? I’m putting you on the spot here.

Nita: Something civilized.

Michael: Something civilized? I’d say ... her presentation on Sunday mornings.

Nita: That’s all you can think of?

Charlie A. Rowe and Chris H. Rowe

RR: How old are you, Charlie?

Charlie: I’m four. About to be five.

RR: You’re very tall.