Word: clapboard
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...perfect morning for a wedding in tiny Dolgeville, N.Y. A soft breeze tames the July sun; birds do tremolos from above the clapboard cottages of a village so quaint it holds an annual Violet Festival. Beneath the narrow spire and wooden beams of the United Lutheran Presbyterian Parish, Carolyn Bergeron, 29, and Sujeet Desai, 25, are about to take their vows. "There is news today," says the Rev. James Paulson. "Love," he says, can't be stopped by cultural differences or different faiths. "Love can't be stopped by Down syndrome...
...greet Williams: "What cheer?" Visitors[an error occurred while processing this directive] to Providence, an hour's drive southwest of Boston, will find many answers to that question. Think of Providence as an eminently walkable museum - bring good shoes to handle the hills and cobblestones - with exhibits built in clapboard, bricks and mortar. One must-stroll is Benefit Street, lined with colonial-era houses and grand Victorian mansions that radiate the wealth of the 1800s, when Providence was a jewelry and textile center. There's good people watching here, too: Providence is home to the liberal bastion...
McLoughlin is quick to point out, however, that there will be a lot more to Hilles’ sound proofing than clapboard and paint. Sound-absorbing material in the walls and carpeted flooring will dampen normal conversation, he says, and white noise generators should cancel out the din of Salient editorial meetings. I expect that if one were to shout at the top of his lungs he would be overheard, but for the most part, organizations’ conversations will be confidential...
...trip to Ororicua, the shantytown in the mountains outside Tuxpan where his grandmother was born, highlights just how far Coria has come. His grandmother's people still live in sloping clapboard shacks with dirt floors. Coria's home in Tuxpan is a porticoed five-bedroom residence in the center of town, and he drives a late-model Nissan Pathfinder. In the front of his vast garden are orchids and lilies he brought from the Hamptons. In the back are groves of guava, orange and avocado. But Coria's pursuit of success has taken a heavy toll. Being just about...
...Texas National Guardsmen and Michigan cops on a search-and-evacuate mission through postbellum homes gussied up by modern-day gentrifiers. "Police! Police! Open up," one officer yelled as another stood nervously in the street, holding his gun at the ready. They busted in the door on several clapboard homes after smelling something foul, fearing that bodies were inside. "One lady told us to go to hell," says Staff Sergeant Vincent Rodney of the Oklahoma National Guard, "but they're all gonna have to leave...