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...Christmas in 1962 my parents gave me a superb Hallicrafters world-band radio receiver that I might hear German away from my classroom, I was already primed to listen. For a rural junior-high school kid, the radio was a Christmas-day magic box, and once I strung copper wire from the house to a huge white pine far out in the swamp, I grasped that box's reach...
...listening lured me into programming directed at non-American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour-a-day rowboat restoration projects proceed best when the world whispers in my boatshop...
Overseas radio is cheap (a good receiver and coil of copper wire cost less than $300), and unlike the Web, coexists effortlessly with washing dishes, pumping the stepping machine or restoring rowboats, nourishing the mind while the body relaxes from hours-long keyboard pounding. It breaks listeners free of computer-terminal chairs and of the monolingual sterility imposed by address and job, but it rewards best those who know more than English and who listen in the clear-air hours just after five in the morning or after eight at night...
...hundred yards from Larry Nickerson's store on Highway 202, Bruce Coutu sells antiques and hand-made copper items. The walls of his store are lined with shiny copper lamps and fixtures, and the table by the front counter displays a large assortment of New England firefighter's memorabilia, complete with coffee mugs and beer pitchers. A former employee of the Postal Service, he is now 59 years old. Bruce approaches the collection of colorful flags that rest by the front door, and selects his "recession flag," hanging it outside for all of Epsom to see. An old flier nailed...
...show displays both the medium's instruments--etching needle, drypoint needle, copper plate--and demonstrates the distinction between etching and other printmaking processes. In three sixteenth-century works by Albrecht Durer, the differences between etching, engraving and woodcut printmaking are evident. The woodcut is cruder, with broad areas of black and white, and the well-defined line necessarily supercedes tone and mood...