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LETTER: Why Landscape Butchery Along Highways?
For months now, I have watched the edges of roads and highways become more and more depleted of the beautiful trees that line them. While I understand that, in some cases, branches hanging too low over roads or select old trees perhaps leaning too...Tags: Middletown, Earth Day
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News briefs for April 23
‘Audubon In Kentucky’ talk set at library Friends of the Library continue its spring program series at 4 p.m. Wednesday with Sarah Vahlkamp’s presentation, “Audubon in Kentucky.” The program will be held in the Community...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Field has mulled selling artifacts
When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....
Tags: Research, Environmental Issues, Princeton University, Political Fundraising, Colleges and Universities
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in the Florida Keys
ReutersKEY WEST, Fla (Reuters) - The Florida Keys are the end of the road, where the legendary U.S. Route 1 stops for the ocean at mile zero, a classic American road trip. For many, it did end here, a place where ships crashed and wreckers saved sailors and...Tags: Islamorada, Ernest Hemingway, Key Lime Pie, Music, Arts and Culture
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10 things you might not know about Abraham Lincoln
Chicago Tribune reportersSteven Spielberg's film about a long-limbed, inspirational figure is finally coming to theaters. No, it's not a re-issue of "E.T." It's "Lincoln," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Here are 10 facts about "Honest Abe": 1 Lincoln detested the nickname Abe, and...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Arts and Culture, George W. Bush, Africa, Wars and Interventions
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The beauty — and sorrow — of an empty nest
The lithographs in Joy M. Kiser's "America's Other Audubon" are works of great beauty and scientific accuracy. But behind them is a tragedy — the story of a hugely ambitious undertaking begun in heartbreak and completed in grief. The art book...
Tags: Smithsonian Institution, Libraries, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture, FBI
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Hoover named to PGC board
It's official. Southeastern Pennsylvania has a new member on the board of game commissioners for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Brian H. Hoover of Glenolden, Delaware County, will represent District 6, which includes Lehigh and Northampton counties,...Tags: Environmental Issues, Culture, Ceremonies, Arts and Culture, Game
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Historic document thief sentenced to 7 years in prison
Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, was sentenced seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents from archives and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast. The 64-year-old...
Tags: New York City, Prosecution, Karl Marx, Arts and Culture, War of 1812
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A natural history that almost wasn't: 'America's Other Audubon'
Jacket CopyAs a little girl in Ohio in the mid-1800s, Genevieve "Gennie" Jones would accompany her country doctor father in his buggy as he visited patients. Along the way they'd discuss the natural world, which turned into a lifelong passion. Then...... -
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Dickens featured on today's Google doodle
![Today's <a href="https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google doodle</a> honors Charles Dickens on his birthday. On the letters, you can see characters such as Tiny Tim of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=U3gPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=dickens&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lWQxT_zoM8Og2AW__6S5Bw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=dickens&f=false" target="_blank">"A Christmas Carol"</a> (one of my favorite works, in all forms, including the movie Scrooged and the Mr. Magoo cartoon). I always appreciate Google's playfulness; it's a great way to enliven a dull page.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/177965000-07100224.jpg "Today's <a href="https://www.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Google doodle</a> honors Charles Dickens on his birthday. On the letters, you can see characters such as Tiny Tim of <a href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=U3gPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=dickens&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lWQxT_zoM8Og2AW__6S5Bw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=dickens&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">\"A Christmas Carol\"</a> (one of my favorite works, in all forms, including the movie Scrooged and the Mr. Magoo cartoon). I always appreciate Google's playfulness; it's a great way to enliven a dull page.")
Today's Google doodle honors Charles Dickens on his birthday. On the letters, you can see characters such as Tiny Tim of "A Christmas Carol" (one of my favorite works, in all forms, including the movie Scrooged and the Mr. Magoo cartoon). I always...Tags: Bastille Day, Google Inc., Charles Dickens
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Adventure events set at state parks
If you’re looking for some winter adventure, the Kentucky State Parks have numerous outdoor events planned in January and February to get you outdoors and moving.
They include elk viewing tours, hikes, looking for eagles at the Land Between the...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Caves and Caverns, Landforms, Gardens and Parks, State Parks
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