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...songs and stories. Tourists will also want to see the Pepin Historical Museum and its displays of local history. The town sits on Lake Pepin, where youngsters can follow Laura's footsteps, picking up pretty pebbles like the ones she collected in the pocket of her red calico dress so long...
...good questions. There are speculations that the shroud's image may have been created by a "burst" of energy at the time of the Resurrection. Could such a burst have altered the fabric in a way that would affect the outcome of this modern dating method? JONATHAN SMITH Calico Rock...
1970s Victorianish dresses of calico and gingham with ruffled hems
Homer shows them learning skills (sailing, fishing, farm work) and getting their education in the schoolhouse. Henry James found Homer's "barefoot urchins and little girls in calico sun-bonnets...almost barbarously simple" and "horribly ugly," but conceded that they won you over: Homer "has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial, as if they were every inch as good as Capri or Tangier...he has incontestably succeeded." Homer was one of the key figures in whose work Americanness ceased to be an embarrassment. The cultural cringe before Europe vanishes and is replaced by a robust confidence in American...
...Chelsea and Bill, she took to compensatory cookie making on an industrial scale. Stung by Whitewater allegations, she did penance by giving a press conference in girlish pink. What can we expect if the Gingrich remark provokes yet another make-over? A floor-length Mother Hubbard gown of handloomed calico...