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The Arts June 22, 2005
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Clara’s Whimsy
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.
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Passionate Neudert keeps it contemporary
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.
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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.
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An Ideal World
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
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