How The Grinch Stole Our Hearts
BY LUCRETIA VOIGT INDEPENDENT ARTS WRITER
      Fifty years ago, a man from Springfield, Mass. wrote a simple Christmas tale about a curmudgeon who wanted to spread Christmas misery to everyone in Who-ville, enlisting his poor little dog Max into his army of ill will. First published in 1957, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" by Theodor Geisel, ...
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Painting for Children
by Lucretia Voigt
      Sopist "Gade" Lertwongprasert, born in Chiangmai in northern Thailand, may not speak perfect English. Her universal language, however, is her art. "Since I was a child, I paint whatever," she explained recently in her studio upstairs in the home of Ruth Blount. "But I started to be serious with i...
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Giving the gift of wine
By Leslie-Ann Sheppard
      My mother always told me, "when you're invited to someone's house for dinner, never show up empty handed." This has always stayed in my mind, and though occasionally I bring something I've created, I almost always present the host with a bottle of wine.
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Holiday Recipe Swap
What's on your table for the holidays?
      Do you have a special and/or traditional holiday recipe you'd like to share? If so, we'd like to publish it here. Email, fax or mail yours to: The Nantucket Independent, Sharon Liburd, sharon@nantucketindependent.com, 15 North Beach Street, Nantucket, Mass. 02554. Fax: 508-228-4858. Please b...
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HAVE A HOLLY JOLLY (SAFE, NON-TOXIC) HOLIDAY
      About this time of the year I start panicking. Not that I don't panic every other time of the year, it's just at this time of the year my panic has a real purpose.
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HOLIDAY PET SAFETY
      Some people just can't wait for festive occasions so they can expand on the theme by decorating the house inside and out. Our daughter puts up her Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. I can't keep up with my business neighbor either. My friend Theresa, of Tresses, is always at least one wee...
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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 v...
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for the ARTS record
      MCMANIS AWARDED VERNEY FELLOW Debra A. McManis has been awarded the Nantucket Historical Association's E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship for 2007.
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books
      Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Writers" by Donald Friedman In his autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov described his ability to "hear" colors. "The long a of the English alphabet has…the tint of weathered wood, bu...
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videos
      Orange Street Video 117 Orange Street, 228-5806 "Interview" (Rated R for language including sexual references and some drug use) Since his editor feels that reporter Pierre Peders (Steve Buscemi) has lost his edge, he has been demoted to doing puff pieces. The first of these interviews that Pi...
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