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A chance meeting on a river trip last year helped Jamie Abbott get to know her predecessor as the executive director of Carbondale Arts, Amy Kimberly, and what it would take to bear a special torch.
Though Abbott’s pending application at the time to take on the position wasn’t discussed, those days on the river did provide a mutual glimpse through each other’s windows to the nonprofit arts world.
“Carbondale Arts is an organization that serves to connect the community to the opportunities art has to offer and to build community through art,” Abbott said of what attracted…