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- At 114, Mary Ray was oldest person in the US - Boston Globe
Almost until the end, Mary Josephine Ray would take song requests, crooning traditional Acadian tunes from her childhood and Tin Pan Alley standards. From her New Hampshire nursing home, she played cribbage with a youthful zeal, tallying every point ...
- BBC death list shows its true royal colours - Evening Standard
It's half the attraction of believing in an afterlife, if you ask me. Imagine! Looking down on the lamenting masses: women, crazed with grief, rending their clothing in the streets; men reading poetry with trembling lips… The important thing about ...
- Spring training: Starling in the making - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteSpring training: Starling in the makingPittsburgh Post GazetteIn the form of poetry. Then, the scout catches himself. And he remembers all the five-tool talents who ended up working at five-and-dimes. ...
- Weekly Concert--International Women's Day Edition - DAILY KOS
I am going to move my semi-regular Sunday Concert series up a few days this week in honor of International Women's Day being celebrated this past Monday. With that in mind, today I'm going to focus on the lives and works of female composers. Unlike ...
- Students compete for Mr. and Ms. Black UConn - UConn Daily Campus
Students compete for Mr. and Ms. Black UConnUConn Daily CampusThe African American Cultural Center hosted their annual Mr. and Ms. Black UConn Pageant on Friday in the Student Union Ballroom. Contestants were judged on ...
- Daily Report - Baton Rouge Business Report
Baton Rouge dropped three spots in a national scorecard that measures traffic congestion in U.S. metro areas. The city was ranked 35th in the INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, down slightly from its 32nd place finish in 2008. That ranking came ...
- Neil Pearlberg, The Perfect Write: Speaking with board-shaping legend Johnny Rice - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Neil Pearlberg, The Perfect Write: Speaking with board-shaping legend Johnny RiceSanta Cruz Sentinel"It is a triangular wave, and inlaid within the wave are the colors black, red, yellow and white, that are a part of my Indian heritage that represent the ...
- Aztec Two Step performs in Minstrel coffeehouse, Morristown - Bridgeton News
Allan Holdsworth, rock and jazz guitarist, performs at The Community Theater, 100 South St., Morristown, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 27. He has developed a new baritone guitar: a custom six-string design and invented electronic components for the ...
- Daughter offers take on Welles - Columbus Dispatch
NEW YORK -- No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. His memory is preserved, imperfectly, through a shelf of books that Feder said have yet to capture her father's many-sided life ...
- Using art to educate and enlighten - The Hindu
The HinduUsing art to educate and enlightenThe HinduA musical about Malayalam poetry from the early days of folksong to the present day was one of the main attractions of the three-hour show. ...
- Program proves to be inspirational - Gadsden Times
Program proves to be inspirationalGadsden TimesA group of 20 young people who attend the Boys & Girls Club participated in the program, singing and reciting poems about those who have paved the way for ...
- Senior poet laureate contest under way - The Salinas Californian
Senior poet laureate contest under wayThe Salinas CalifornianEntries are now being accepted for regional winners in the 18th annual National Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 or older, ...and more »
- University Park Elementary: Attempting to balance literacy and ... - Denver Post
Twit — the grump from the Roald Dahl book "The Twits." There are lantern lights, couches and walls decked with Robert Frost poems. in this class are reading full chapter books. Another student, from Burkina Faso, is learning English.
- A Santa who understands responds to a deep hurt - Syracuse Post-Standard
A few months ago, Karen Wright asked about 130 eighth-graders at the Danforth Middle School to begin meeting with second-graders from some Syracuse schools. The older children worked with the little ones on their reading skills. As a seasonal finale ...
- Anna Wang finds a calling in guitar pop - Isthmus
Anna Wang finds a calling in guitar popIsthmus"I used to write poetry, but nothing is as good as writing a song. I used to cry about not being able to write a good song." Wang spent much of 2009 writing ...
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