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...Sunday best to the quayside, the big draws at this year's Seafest were not fishing vessels but Viking warrior re-enactments, candy stores, carnival rides and a palmist called Amalia Lavengra. The largest boat in the harbor was not some weathered trawler, but the Donara II, a 34-foot yacht owned by Andy Stewart, Commodore of the Arbroath Sailing and Boating Club. "It's mixed emotions," says Alex Smith, a former Arbroath fisherman who sold his boat last year, and who offered "Pleasure Cruises with Skipper Alex Smith" on a small craft during this year's Seafest...
Last September, the development firm purchased the 10,500-square-foot lot, which is surrounded by seven Colonial Revival houses, with the intention of building a 5,250-square-foot single-family residence...
...night at Bremner Field in Durham, NH. The likely explanation? Negotiating play with new teammates, especially on the offensive end. After mustering 12 shots combined in two losses last weekend, the Crimson had 19 cracks and its first goal of the season Wednesday. That first tally came off the foot of sophomore Katherine Sheeleigh, Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Crimson scoring leader a year ago. Katherine Kuzma, another one of the valuable rookies that helped push Harvard to its 10-win season last year, picked up the assist on Sheeleigh’s game-winner.Junior Laura Dale started...
...centerpiece of the 19-by-24-foot trashscape is a mountain of discarded mattresses. Shredded, torn and piled one on top of another, he renders them both distasteful and somehow comforting. Adding a few strokes to capture a surprising softness of one brown fouton, Liu steps back and looks over his work. "Everything has been used by humans," he says. "You feel it in your heart...
...food. But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. She embodies the most basic American myth - Jefferson's yeoman farmer, the fantasia of rural righteousness - updated in a crucial way: now Mom works too. Palin's story stands with one foot squarely in the nostalgia for small-town America and the other in the new middle-class reality. She brings home the bacon, raises the kids - with a significant assist from Mr. Mom - hunts moose and looks great in the process. I can't imagine a more powerful, or current, American...