Film Festival selections announced
Director Robert Benton to be honored with screenwriter's award; Film selections include "Son of Rambow: A Home Movie," "Rocket Science" and "Evening," with Streep, Close and Redgrave
By Marli Guzzetta + Independent Arts Editor
      The Nantucket Film Festival has begun to drive in the organizational tent pegs, announcing Academy award-winning writer and director Robert Benton ("Kramer vs.
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Mixed races, NOT mixed messages
Author Ronne Hartfield discusses the book she wrote about her mother, the daugther of a slave and a plantation master who had an "Emersonian" certainy of herself
By Marli Guzzetta + Independent Arts Editor
      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.
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GALLERY GUIDE
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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 ima...
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Making students into songwriters
Canadian singer/songwriter Katherine Wheatley assists with Nantucket New School's Arts Week and ends her weeklong stay on island with a performance
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      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.
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for the ARTS record
      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, th...
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Handmade crafts make moms happy on Mother's Day
BY LUCRETIA VOIGT INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTOR
      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...
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Media you can Trust
      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...
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WE LIKE IT WE LOVE IT
      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 -...
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REEL TO REEL
NOW PLAYING ON NANTUCKET
      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...
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