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...best deal I've ever come across in my vast experience as a Christmas maven was a local bank that took pictures of kids (any age) with Santa, then sent you packing with a gift, food and a candy cane pen. Although the pen has long since dried up, the food digested and the toy discarded, the family still has the pictures of Santa and the clan. Some things never change...
...Parlange well extended the known limits of the Tuscaloosa Sand, which is named for the Alabama county where it crops to the surface. In Louisiana, the "trend" (main potential gas-producing formation) lies four miles beneath the green bayous and sugar-cane fields and stretches 200 miles from Lake Pontchartrain to the Texas border. Because of its depth, high temperature and geological history, the Tuscaloosa Sand has produced mostly gas, very little...
Graham, whose cancer seems to have been contained for now by radiation therapy, maintains a full schedule. She makes guest appearances on local TV, has lectured at medical schools, continues to drive-although she must walk with a cane-and plans to turn her columns into a book. Despite periodic bouts of gloom, her courage never flags. "I am coming put of a long siege of metastasis [spreading of the cancer] and subsequent treatment and I am tired and sometimes in pain," she wrote recently, "but I am not dying. I don't feel I am going...
...only on rare occasions. Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done for the past ten years, he will spend the winter in Florida cutting sugar cane ?backbreaking ground-level work that makes the loftier labor of apple picking seem easy by comparison...
...Back Room at the Idler shamelessly describe to me as "the best singer in Boston," sings at the same next Wednesday, starting at 9 p.m. Rishell is a good blues guitarist and plays some slide; he's got a great version of the Irving Berlin song "Walking Cane," popularized of late by Leon Redbone. Molly Malone, whose picture ran on this page some weeks ago so I needn't remind you of her 40s blues style, plays tonight and Sunday night at the Back Room. Gene Stamell, a warm, animated folkie sings and plays guitar in a Martin Mull...