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EDITORIAL: Pint-sized public servant
The York Dispatch, Pa.Thumbs up: Seven-year-old Mateo Amil Maldonado has this community service thing in the bag. The York Country Day School first-grader organized Mateo's Litter Critters, a volunteer group that so far has collected 78 bags of garbage in York City --...Tags: Earth Day, York (York, Pennsylvania), Colleges and Universities, Labor Day, Human Interest
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Author of book that inspired 'Lincoln' visits Norfolk
The Virginian-PilotLet us imagine that you have 20 minutes to interview Doris Kearns Goodwin about her upcoming talk at the Norfolk Forum. You catch her on her cellphone in Boca Raton, Fla., on her way to the airport, where she may or may not be allowed to fly home to...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Millard Fillmore, Entertainment, Lyndon B. Johnson, Daniel Day-Lewis
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History and Hollywood combine during weekend-long event in Petersburg
The Progress-Index, Petersburg, Va.Hollywood and history intersected along the cobblestone streets of Petersburg during a weekend-long event that weaved together stories of the filming of "Lincoln" and Petersburg's own integral involvement in the Civil War. Petersburg Cultural Affairs...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Colonial Heights (Colonial Heights, Virginia), Wars and Interventions
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From the Art
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.It was a mad scramble into the Abraham Lincoln Elementary gym in Medford on Tuesday night as kids, unaccustomed to seeing dividing walls across the basketball court, looked for their artwork among the 500 pieces on display. At the schoolwide Art Show,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Painting, Arts
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Gettysburg prepares for tourist spike during 150th anniversary
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteNorris Flowers and Bob Kirby have a right to be nervous. As two of the principals planning the 150th anniversary of one of the most important events in American history -- the Civil War battle fought in July 1863 outside this town -- they've been...Tags: Arts and Culture, Armed Conflicts, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Health and Safety at Work, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Hampton slaves set sail for Haiti
When Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler decided to give three runaway slaves refuge at Fort Monroe as "contraband" of war in May 1861, he barely described the incident in his daybook. But by 1863, the epic consequences of his landmark order could be...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Illinois Wesleyan University, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Fort Monroe, Slavery
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Freedom planted under Hampton oak
Few of the thousands of fugitive slaves who lived in Hampton’s vast Civil War refugee camps were taken by surprise when — on Jan. 1, 1863 — they received word that President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. A hundred...
Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Norfolk State University, The New York Times, Colleges and Universities, Hampton Roads
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Mail Call - April 29
“Interesting story about the city and the utilities, the water and sewer. I cannot believe they let 402 people go without paying and then finally they levied down on them, and 218 paid up. That is irresponsible for anybody that can’t pay a...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), U.S. Senate, Preakness Stakes, Civil Rights
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The Bush legacy
Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He kept us safe." Not quite right....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), NATO, International Military Interventions, L. Paul Bremer III
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Guardian Angels help slain Navy vet's family search for killer
Naval Petty Officer Alonzo M. Gladden Jr. had been back home for only four hours last October when an unknown person opened fire on him — killing him shortly after he dropped off his grandmother in South Baltimore. Months later, his killing...
Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. Navy, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Phylicia Barnes, Shootings
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Letters: FDR, Jews and the war
Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...Tags: Bill Clinton, Religion and Belief, George W. Bush, Human Rights, Politics
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Art Callaham: Can't take the hills out of this W.Va. boy
Since I’ve been writing this column — more than two years now — I’ve wanted to write about West Virginia. You see, as much as I love Maryland and the Hagerstown/Washington County area, I’m still a West Virginian at heart. I...Tags: U.S. Congress, Marshall University
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