Archive for June, 2008

New village all about the old - Owen Sound Sun Times

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
New village all about the old
Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 54 minutes ago
Martin, the longest serving interpreter, has been a mainstay in the 1850s log cabin for decades, portraying Mrs. O’Hara, a married early pioneer with three

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John Shearer: Checking Out Minnesota - The Chattanoogan

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
John Shearer: Checking Out Minnesota
The Chattanoogan, TN - 30 minutes ago
While there, we stayed in a very interesting place, a large and historic log cabin at the Breezy Point Resort on Pelican Lake. The whole complex once had a

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From the Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times
Chicago Tribune, United States - 30 minutes ago
The homesteading Starretts (Jean Arthur, Van Heflin and Brandon de Wilde as Joey), helped by the loner Shane (Alan Ladd), had to battle that formidable

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Wyoming’s legendary set - Chicago Tribune

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

THE Grand Tetons held sway over me for 20 years — before I set ever eyes on them. The breathtaking backdrop for a mythic American landscape has been etched on my consciousness since, as a 10-year-old, I sat mesmerized by a Saturday matinee showing …

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Coaxing something magical from a mess of a property - Philadelphia Daily News

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The classified ad caught Ilse Ackerman’s eye: “Lincoln Heights Fixer-Upper. Artist Vision Required. On cul-de-sac.” No address was listed. Intrigued - and determined - Ackerman and her husband, Meeno Peluce, drove to every cul-de-sac in the area …

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (319) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Guardian has a lovely write-up , with lots of photographs, from Rudyard Kipling to AS Byatt. The one above is Hanif Kureishi’s, who writes: Above the desk there’s a very sexy picture of Kate Moss. I think every writer needs a picture of Kate Moss …

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (317) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Guardian has a lovely write-up , with lots of photographs, from Rudyard Kipling to AS Byatt. The one above is Hanif Kureishi’s, who writes: Above the desk there’s a very sexy picture of Kate Moss. I think every writer needs a picture of Kate Moss …

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Then there were none - Athens Daily Review

Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Then there were none
Athens Daily Review, TX - 7 minutes ago
By Rich Flowers News Editor The City of Log Cabin has not discharged its police department. It’s just reloading. Mayor Pro-Tem Weldon Wallace said earlier

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (311) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

If [Obama] moved to the center on abortion, a knowledgeable religion journalist remarked to me last week, he could win half of evangelicals under 40. But can he move to the center on abortion - by flip-flopping on partial-birth abortion, say, while …

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (308) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Sullivan thinks it’s impossible to imagine that we could have this sort of long-standing military presence in the Mideast without perpetual fighting. Perhaps he doesn’t realize that the U.S. already has a string of bases in Kuwait, Qatar, the …

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