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Collector gives presentation on 19th century artist at Singer Society gathering
Ray Snouffer, artist, docent and instructor at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and avid collector of 19th century American art, recently spoke at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. His program to the Singer Society, the volunteer...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums, Fine Arts
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Books for Lent
Lent's mortifications are getting a little, um, much right about now, aren't they? We're in 33 days, by the Western church's count, and those meatless Fridays, those extra prayers, and that seemingly fabulous idea at the time (one too many hurricanes on...
Tags: Authors, Book, Chicago Tribune, East Haven, Graham Greene
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Cops kill suspect in deadly NY shooting rampage
HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in upstate New York stormed an abandoned building Thursday morning where a man suspected of a deadly shooting rampage at a car wash and barbershop had been holed up for hours, killing the man after he fired on a police...
Tags: Shootings, Andrew Cuomo, New York City, Prisons
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Irish 'Bard of Peace' Tommy Sands back in Bethlehem
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA conversation with Irish folk singer Tommy Sands reveals yet one more reason why he is known by many as the “Bard of Peace.” The man who has dedicated his life to the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland has a voice that, even in... -
Bless this painting
When Ruth Mayer first heard from the Vatican, she brushed it off as a hoax. "'I'll be in my gallery in two weeks,'" she recalled saying into her kitchen phone. "I heard a chuckle and thought, 'Oh, definitely a joke!' I didn't think any more about it."...
Tags: Arts, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, The Pope
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Speaker shows examples of his American landscape paintings
The Singer Society, the volunteer association of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, held its monthly meeting Jan. 10 in the museum’s Bowman Gallery. Showing examples of his work, the guest speaker was Philip Koch, a modernist-influenced...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Arts, John Wallace, Arts and Culture
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On the edge with Billy Martin
During a midday hike along the cliffs of northern New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson River, drummer Billy Martin walks on isolated paths spotted with melting snow. "It's really beautiful," he says, panting. "There's nobody here." His breath becomes...
Tags: Grateful Dead (music group), John Scofield, Phish (music group), Fort Lauderdale, Music
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'The Orchardist' inspires a rumination on the role of place in literature
Hi, my name is Alan, and I'm drunk with landscape. I've just finished teaching a writing workshop in how to deploy setting in modern fiction, mainly, the modern novel, so I couldn't easily get the subject off my mind in any case. And now, just as the...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Authors, John Dos Passos, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment
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'Dr. Ruth, All The Way' Much More Than Sex Talk
The Hartford CourantThe first thing actress Debra Jo Rupp wants you to know is that her new role in a solo show about Dr. Ruth is not about sex. Well, not all of it anyway. But it's hard not to deal with the subject, especially given the playful title: "Dr. Ruth, All the...Tags: Debra Jo Rupp, Arts and Culture, Radio, Ruth Westheimer, Germany
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N.J. DEP issues fishing, boating advisories
Lehigh Valley WildFrome N.J. DEP : Due to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, several waste water treatment facilities in the state are off-line, resulting in the temporary runoff of effluents into certain waterways. As a public health and safety precaution, the Department... -
‘Sailor Twain’: Mermaid tale explores murky depths of the heart
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comGraphic novelist Mark Siegel intertwines themes of obsession, loss and redemption in “Sailor Twain: The Mermaid in the Hudson,” a ...... -
Spiny water flea confirmed in New York's Lake #Champlain
Lehigh Valley WildThe presence of the spiny water flea, an aquatic invasive species, was confirmed in Lake George, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced today. “DEC has worked with its partners on the Lake Champlain Basin Task Force to...
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Original site for Hudson River topic gallery.