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- Maya loved life and beauty, and fought injustice - Daily Journal
Maya Fleischner died one month before her 101st birthday in January 2008. Many friends and family celebrated her life at 100. Surrounded with so much love, she wished for another 100 years. In the 1960s, as part of a profile for The League of Women ...
- 'The Earl Sande Saga' chronicles legendary jockey - WMI Central
SPRINGERVILLE - Summer of 1916. Hot, dusty. The rough and rowdy town of Springerville is pursuing its favorite sport - matched horse racing. It's a chance for working cowboys and ranchers to put their money on the cow ponies they've been "bragging on ...
- Religion Calendar: 06/14/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- On Poetry: Trees at their 'Loveliest' - Traverse City Record-Eagle
The cherry trees are having their short burst of glory, which always makes me think of this poem. Several times I have walked around the Mall in Washington when the cherry trees are in full bloom and said this poem to myself. It was written by A.E ...
- Fiona MacCarthy on Edward Burne-Jones's The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon - Guardian Unlimited
'Something that can never go out of the heart' ... detail from The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones Central to Arthurian legend is the notion that King Arthur never died, but slept on in Avalon awaiting the moment when the nation most ...
- Young Poet Tells of Joy In Marbles (The Lakeland Ledger)
I have always enjoyed poems that celebrate the small pleasures of life. Here Max Mendelsohn, age 12, of Weston, Massachusetts, tells us of the joy he finds in playing with marbles.ODE TO MARBLES I love the sound of marblesscattered on the worn wooden floor,like children running away in a game of hide and seek.
- Katie's Goodbye - Daily Beacon Online
I couldn’t wait for this article. I was pumped that I got to write a senior goodbye and that I got to say something profound to the entire student body. I’ve got nothing profound or funny, just my heart and memories that I want to point out one ...
- Striving to make Shakespeare family friendly - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Alison Eliel Kalmus wants to make the Bard more appealing to the MTV generation, but she will not dumb down William Shakespeare's glorious language. "We want to make Shakespeare accessible to families," Kalmus said. "Our actors do not speak in that ...
- The Month In: Techno (Pitchfork)
You don't have to be a former raver to mourn the complacency behind today's dance music-- to mourn the atrophy of a particular sense of optimism, of possibility, once encoded in the ceaseless advancement of electronic music's shifting stylistics-- so we went loooking for some good news by asking a few dozen electronic music aficianados to cure what's ailing this music. read more
- From Trash to Treasure ... and Back Again (East Bay Express)
There's an old African proverb: "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing." This is as opposed to, say, walking around stiffly, with the cold skewer of civilization lodged deep in your bowels. Like most of us do. The lesson is that art is not a specialist profession.
- ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER - OCRegister
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTEROCRegister, CA - 4 hours ago... who has been immortalized in poetry, art, drama and music, is utilized to express society's changing attitudes toward women, love and politics. ...
- Much ado as £15m book is recovered - Northern Echo
Much ado as £15m book is recoveredNorthern Echo, UK - 2 hours agoIt's great news for librarians everywhere and great news for people who love Shakespeare." The library called in the FBI. Durham Police were alerted by the ...
- Thinking about Mother’s Day - La Crosse Tribune
I was just thinking about my mother since Mother’s Day is approaching, and thought of a line I’d written in a poem I wrote her when I was a child. It read, “Thanks for scrubbing on your hands and knees and giving the dog a bath so it won’t ...
- Funniest graduation ever - Malta Independent Daily
The funniest-ever graduation in the University of Malta’s 500-year history took place yesterday at the Jesuits’ Church in Valletta as Roberto Benigni was bestowed with the doctorate of literature (honoris causa). The congregation of academics ...
- A Memorable Evening With Safdar Hamdani - South Asian Link
A Memorable Evening With Safdar HamdaniSouth Asian Link, Canada - 1 hour agoInstead of writing poetry of Madah(in appreciation of administrators) he has composed poems of Naat (in admiration of Prophet). ...
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