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FINDING TERROIR
By Leslie-Ann Sheppard
      Touring around the southern Rhone Valley in France is a true reminder and reinforcement of the concept of terroir. Aterm borrowed from the French language, terroir is used to sum up the geographic and environmental conditions of a particular place, and assumes that these conditions impart distinct...
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Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
      ONLOCATION The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation is removing several structural elements on the east end of its theater building to prepare for the possible showing of movies in its back parking lot At the April 22 Historic District Commission meeting,
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ON VACATION
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
      Early Monday evening, driving along Cliff Road, a red tail hawk glided across the road, not much above windshield height and maybe 200 feet in front of the car. Even in the steely gray of the prerain sky, its russet tail stood out dramatically as it honed in on a fencepost and slid in to a perfect...
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