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<!-- Page Number: 22--> The Nantucket Film Festival has begun to drive in the organizational tent pegs, announcing Academy award-winning writer and director Robert Benton ("Kramer vs. More ... <!-- Page Number: 22--> It is a matter of personal significance for author Ronne Hartfield to be speaking on her memoir "Another Way Home" at the Atheneum, where Ralph Waldo Emerson once spoke. "I learned a language for the way my parents thought when I read Emerson. More ... <!-- Page Number: 25--> The Nantucket Historical Association houses the most complete visual record of Nantucket history in existence. The image here is from our collections, and may be one we cannot identify, wish for more information about or just want to see if people can identify. Many more images are available for viewing and identification at www.nha.org. More ... <!-- Page Number: 26--> After graduating from Queen's University with a geology degree, Canadian singer/songwriter Katherine Wheatley spent five years in the northern Saskatchewan gathering rock samples, then another seven months on a geological survey in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi. More ... <!-- Page Number: 27--> Food for Thought: Bob Felch As part of Historic Preservation Month, the Nantucket Historical Association's last "Food for Thought" Lunchtime Lecture will feature longtime 'Sconset resident Bob Felch, who will speak on the topic of Saving Sankaty Lighthouse. Built in 1850, the lighthouse is now resting dangerously close to the 'Sconset bluff. More ... <!-- Page Number: 28--> Mother's Day is this Sunday. Now, I know most of the people that read this article are mothers, so the first part of this article is for you. Mother's Day is supposed to be all about us, but I can't help but want to do something for my kids on Mother's Day. A neat tradition to start is buying a special book every year to share with your kids. More ... <!-- Page Number: 30--> BOOKS Mitchell's Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman" August 18, 1945 Siasconset, Massachusetts "... suddenly there was a shout at our back lane...the door flew open - and thirty-five people crowded in... More ... <!-- Page Number: 30--> We make the pick (or advise against it) "Super Paper Mario" RATED E FOR EVERYONE FOR COMICMISCHIEF MILD CARTOON VIOLENCE; FOR NINTENDO WII GAMECUBE This Mario game will probably draw you in from the start with its charming art style and numerous references to older games - not to mention its ability to shift from 2D side-scrolling to 3D exploration at a moment's notice, More ... <!-- Page Number: 33--> Hoax" (Rated R for language.) Fresh from the uproar he caused in India for kissing a starlet on the cheek in public, Richard Gere stars as Clifford Irving, a struggling novelist who conned the world into believing he had been commissioned to write the biography of Howard Hughes in the 1970s. More ... |
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