The first time Ed Linehan saw his future wife, Synia Carroll, was around 2000. He didn’t know Carroll at the time, but she caught his eye when he and his three sons stopped to watch her tell a children’s story during an arts festival on the village green in New Haven, Connecticut.
“There was something mesmerizing about her. She was bigger than the place,” recalled Linehan, the former president of the Jazz Club of Sarasota, where he is still on the board.
It would be another 10 years before fate brought Carroll and Linehan, both employees in the City of New Haven’s school system, together as husband and wife. After both of their previous marriages ended in divorce, their romance began in one of New Haven’s famous pizza parlors…