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Artist creates a fantasy animal kingdom By Laura Raskin Independent Arts Writer Clara Urbahn uses the word “present” a lot, as in gift. She is quick to use it to describe the effects of having Stargardt’s disease, the most common form of inherited macular degeneration that meant Urbahn began to go blind in her teens. More ...
By Laura Raskin Independent Arts Writer The Nantucket sculpture artist Billy Sherry credits Dörte Neudert for establishing his career and taking him under her wing after a co-op gallery he was in closed about five years ago. More ... NES children stage play in memory of Rebecca Sayre By DeWitt Smith Contributing Writer In a burst of end-of-the-year creative energy, Nantucket Elementary School students are putting on a play in memory of a former Nantucket student. More ...
Author and historian Neil Baldwin talks about learning from the past By Laura Raskin Independent Arts Writer Neil Baldwin has written seven books, but after Sept. 11, 2001, the founding executive director of the National Book Foundation was compelled to leave the 15-year post to write one in particular. The devoted historian needed to redeem his own faith in democracy and in a c More ... |
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