Field Notes
GERMAPHOBES UNITE!
By Peter B. Brace
      The Maria Mitchell Association is here to help parents and their children understand the human immune system with a twohour workshop called "Grossology," part of its hands-on science program for children in grades one through six and their parents. This month's offering, on March 24 from 12 to 2 p...
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YACK on: Farewell
Grant Sanders
      Every now and then, Flint Ranney, our excellent Steamship Authority Governor and island representative sends a number of people, me included, Web links to stories that have to do with the S t e a m s h i p A u t h o r i t y . Sometimes he sends them out via email and sometimes he posts them on YAC...
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e t c e t e r a
1. A number of unspecified additional things; 2. pl. additional items, odds and ends
      YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS COMPETE Students from the Cyrus Peirce School Math League recently competed in the state's southeastern chapter finals with students from 21 other schools. The Nantucket students were selected on the basis of a CPS Math League competition.
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THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
      Not to belabor the obvious, but the political season has arrived on Nantucket. Like the national political races, this particular season seems a bit longer than usual. Maybe that is because the special election is barely behind us. On the other hand, the election is just three weeks away and the A...
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Identify This
Georgen Gilliam Charnes
      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 vi...
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KIDS AND PETS
      I shouldn't speak ill of my customers, but just this once, I will. Every now and again, we get a family from hell in the shop.
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