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The Big Read announces $1 million in grants for 2013-14
The National Endowment for the Arts announced $1 million in grants for the Big Read projects taking place across the U.S. in 2013-14. The Big Read was launched in 2005 to help create one-city-one-book-style projects; for each title on its list, it...
Tags: Physiology, Google+, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ray Bradbury
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Bernice "Bernie" Bender Bartholomew, 92, formerly of Salisbury
Bernice "Bernie" Bender Bartholomew, 92, died May 31, 2013, at Emeritus Senior Living in Towson, Md. Born on Aug. 27, 1920, daughter of the late Effie Miller Bender and Mark Twain Bender, Bernice graduated from Salisbury High School in Salisbury. She...Tags: Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Worth, Dwayne Johnson, Crime, Law and Justice
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Historic Oregon County mill vandalized
Doniphan, Mo. – Information is being sought on vandals that damaged Mark Twain National Forest’s Falling Spring Mill, located in Oregon County. According to Doniphan/Eleven Point Ranger District Ranger Tim Bond, the vandalism was...
Tags: Vandalism, Forestry and Timber
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'I'm Connecticut' Shows The State Has Its Funny Side
The Hartford CourantThe show: "I'm Connecticut" at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex First impressions: Would the romantic comedy by the Emmy Award-winning writer-producer of "The Simpsons" — and Connecticut native — Mike Reiss, be as hysterically funny as when I...Tags: Entertainment, Storrs, Alzheimer's Disease, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Annie Hall (movie)
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Robert Frick Left Historic Mark On Twain House
The Hartford CourantThe Mark Twain House in Hartford was many things after the famed author left in 1891; private home, school, warehouse, apartment house, branch library and fledgling museum. By the late 1950s, it was a casual affair, a mix of visitors and a few residents...Tags: Renovation, Human Interest, Old State House, Bethpage, Museums
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7 states need 'innovative thinking' in Colorado River drought
As everyone knows, Mark Twain said: In the West, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting. But with drought strangling the Colorado River, the seven states that depend on the river need to cooperate as never before in sharing and conserving this...
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A German mouthful bites the dust
BERLIN -- Some German words, as Mark Twain observed in despair, seem not to be words at all but "alphabetical processions." He would have been delighted to hear that Germany’s longest official word has just become obsolete, ironically, at the stroke...
Tags: European Union, Germany, China, Crime, Law and Justice
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READER SUBMITTED: "The Loveliest Home that Ever Was: the story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford"
PlymouthSaturday June 15, 2 p.m. - "The Loveliest Home that Ever Was: the story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford." Local author Steve Courtney will be discussing the making of the official guide to The Mark Twain House and Museum, this volume tells the...Tags: Mark Twain House and Museum
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READER SUBMITTED: The Flowering Of A Base Ball Field
HartfordThe 1870s was a decade when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and the sport of base ball (yes, it was two words back then) was being played in earnest by everyone from young lads and men's social clubs to women's college teams. In fact, base...Tags: National League, Baseball, Government, Politics, Executive Branch
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The voice of Ernie is heard again
Tuesdays with MitchThe flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land Every spring, Ernie Harwell slid into baseball season by reciting that biblical verse on the radio. And now, every spring,...Tags: Comerica Park, Entertainment, Hal Holbrook, Brooklyn (New York City), Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Review: 'Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic' a keen look at gifted comic
Richard Pryor died in 2005 at the age of 65 from a heart attack related to multiple sclerosis. The unexpected thing, given his life and habits and health, was not that he died so young but that he lived so long. Marina Zenovich's enlightening...Tags: Entertainment, Multiple Sclerosis, Jesse Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks
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Murder suspect goes free after conviction is overturned
ghartley@schurz.comOZARK, Mo. -- A woman convicted of murder is free on bond while she awaits a new trial this fall. Paula Hall has been in jail or prison for the last seven years for the murder of Freda Heyn. Heyn disappeared from her home in Oldfield in November 2003. ...Tags: Murder, Justice System, Prosecution, Trials, Judges
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