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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

WHS Grads Start Clothing Line

Putting Peru's Nazca Lines on shirts has put the company started by Dan Barrenechea and David Voshchin, and UMass classmate Erica Baptiste, on the map.

Dan Barrenechea and David Voshchin have been classmates at Westborough High School and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Now, they're business partners, just months after graduating college in May. Nazca Line Apparel -- which the 2008 WHS grads launched with UMass classmate Erica Baptiste on July 25 -- was inspired by Barrenechea's trip to Peru in August 2011 to see his family, his first trip there in seven years. The Nazca Lines are "massive drawings etched into the desert sand that can only be seen from a plane or helicopter. This 2,000 year old archeological enigma is one of the largest works of art in the world," according to http://www.zazzle.com/nazcaline. The trio now sells men's and women's shirts, and accessories such as …

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