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- Dallas-Fort Worth curling club swept up in sliding stones on ice - Dallas Morning News
Dallas-Fort Worth curling club swept up in sliding stones on iceDallas Morning News, TX - 4 hours agoCurling also is the stuff of Scottish literature and poetry. Poet Robert Burns wrote about it in "Tam Samson's Elegy": When to the loughs the curlers flock. ...
- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 - CBC News
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81. Reaney died Wednesday in London, Ont., after a long illness. Reaney won the Governor General's Award for poetry three times ...
- Remember When: Jersey City in the 1940s were good times, bad times (Fort Pierce Tribune)
These were the good times. Our high school was a parochial school, academically challenging. We were very much into the "Big Bands" and the dances of the times.
- Rediscover the joy of travel by train (Guardian Unlimited)
Comment is free: Stephen Bayley: Certain long-distance European routes offer the prospect of fast, convenient, comfortable journey
- A rare slice of NZ railway history now online (Scoop.co.nz)
A contributor to the last issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine in 1940 wrote that those who had not experienced a railway train had been “cheated†and “failed to share in one of the grandest experiences of lifeâ€.
- Quebec: A Canadian Occasion - TIME
Quebec: A Canadian OccasionTIME - 2 hours agoIf you come for the birthday party, stay for the city's charms. Within Old Quebec — a UNESCO World Heritage Site inside the walls of the city's old ...
- 10 Years of antiMusic: The Queen Of CBGB (antiMUSIC)
We're looking back at 10 years of antiMusic. Today we revisit Trent McMartin's profile and interview with Deborah Olin, also known as The Queen of CBGB. Trent wrote this article in 2005 as the venue was still in a legal struggle for survival.
- Key figure in promoting American Indian literature dies (Miami Herald)
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses.
- Imprentit: 500 Years of the Scottish Printed Word - Art Daily
Imprentit: 500 Years of the Scottish Printed WordArt Daily - 22 minutes agoHistoric figures and landmark events, literary giants past and present, pioneers of self-published fanzines, poetry and political pamphlets sit alongside a ...
- Open mic on the Neck planned for June 5 - Wicked Local Gloucester
Open mic on the Neck planned for June 5Wicked Local Gloucester, MA - 16 hours agoAnyone who would like to come down and play music, read poetry or prose, dance, or do any other such performance is welcome between 5 and 9 pm Come on the ...
- Animal whisperers help you communicate with your pets - Kansas City Star
Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old cats. They ...
- World’s hardest-to-reach vacation spots - MSNBC
Even the ancient Greeks knew that the world is round — but they probably couldn't have imagined just how hard it is to get to some of its most remote spots. Despite modern transportation methods, it still takes days — sometimes weeks — to get ...
- This pop-art always in good taste - Norwalk Hour
NORWALK By HAROLD F. COBIN Hour Correspondent What does knowledge of fruits and vegetables have to do with photography, poetry and the late artist Andy Warhol? Well, for about 80 sixth-graders . . . Sorry, you must be an online or print subscriber to ...
- New York Hosts Yahya Kemal Beyatli Commemoration Night - Turkish Press
New York Hosts Yahya Kemal Beyatli Commemoration NightTurkish Press, MI - 11 hours agoConsequently, he sought out a way to revitalize Turkish divan poetry, in order to create smooth and pure poetic lines.
- Time to gear up for summer reading (The News-Press)
Schools Out and summer reading fun is in! So fill your summer break with ideas of outdoor activities such as camping, water fun and even a family...
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