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- Elsie Von Maur receives musical farewell at memorial service - Quad-Cities Times
Elsie von Maur might be listening from heaven Monday as friends celebrate her life with a musical memorial service at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Davenport. Von Maur, 106, died May 12, and Monday's service celebrates her passionate love for music ...
- Bill Blanko - Guardian Unlimited
The closest most lobby correspondents get to Scotland these days is a TBL (three bottle lunch) at the excellent Boisdale restaurant in Ecclestone Street or a snifter or 12 at Scotch Whisky Association receptions in Dover House in Whitehall. But ...
- rather whacky chat - Boston Globe
rather whacky chatBoston Globe, United States - 20 minutes agoOne language that we know for sure he speaks is jive, after he claimed the first thing he read to his daughter, when she was 2, was the poetry of Lord ...
- Leading Men (Washington Post)
W onderful moment in John Ford's "The Searchers," from way back in 1956: John Wayne, as the surly, violent Ethan Edwards, signals to his young compadre that it's time to move on in their pursuit of Scar, the Comanche chief who's murdered their family and kidnapped the youngest daughter, Debbie.
- Local personalities share their books of summer - Burlington Free Press
Maybe your 10th grade English teacher was onto something when she assigned "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." But reading Twain on the front porch in the cool of a July evening is somehow more satisfying. Summer reading helps shape the season for ...
- O'Shaughnessy: Prisoners' last words haunt writer (New York Daily News)
James McSherry vaguely remembers his stepgrandfather pushing him on the swings in the playground 40 years ago. That was his image of the old man, Michael O'Rourke, who had come from County Cork to the Bronx after the Irish warred with the British and then with each other in the 1920s.
- Out & About (Nanaimo Daily News)
The Nanaimo Arts Council hosts Creative Currents on the second Saturday of every month at the Nanaimo Art Gallery Downtown from 2-4 p.m. Sunday Aug. 31. Pioneer Plaza, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Market, workshops, music, entertainment.
- Religion calendar (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Poetry and Music Workshop: The Episcopal Church of Reconciliation will host a workshop about the healing power of poetry and music from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at 8900 Starcrest.
- Local author releases third children's book (New Jersey Herald)
NETCONG -- Since she was 2 years old, Stanhope author Diana Tuorto has had a passion for horses. "Every year, since I was 2, I asked my parents for a horse," she said.
- Gail Bottoms speaks at Gilmore Center (The Thomaston Times)
Author, speaker and advocate, Ms. Gail Bottoms of Griffin, holds her book of poetry, From the Inside Out, after a special reading of her poetry at the Gilmore Center last Thursday.
- Local educator publishes children's book - Daily News Journal
Dr. Jan Hayes, an award-winning educator and professor emeritus at MTSU, has published her first children's book, "The Split Tongue Sparrow," a traditional Japanese folktale, that is was illustrated by Franklin-based graphic designer Bobby Dawson ...
- Student awarded in poetry contest - Pensacola News Journal
Student awarded in poetry contestPensacola News Journal, FL - 2 hours agoFor the second time, Washington High School junior Barrett White has won a national award for his writing. Barrett, 16, won a silver medal for a collection ...
- A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ... - Hartford Courant
A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ...Hartford Courant, United States - Jul 16, 2008Both Billington and Ryan referred to parallel traditions of American poets — the expansiveness of Walt Whitman, and the reclusiveness of Dickinson. ...
- Georgia on Our Mind - Dissident Voice
Georgia on Our MindDissident Voice, CA - 2 hours agoThat the US is today forced to go to the UN to broker this dispute straddles the border between surrealism and poetry. The second most important point is ...
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st centuryMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 38 minutes agoFirst of all, you're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing." No website captures that concept better than Cassette ...
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