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Instead of the usual small gathering, the hotel held its fifth annual Harvest Moon Celebration yesterday. The all-day festival was attended by about 14 New England farmers, six chefs and more than 20 exhibitors of homemade products and crafts trying to sell their goods, said Martha Sullivan, the event's organizer...
Potato, the small terrier owned by street musician Ned Landin--a.k.a. Flathead--has been a Square fixture for two years, but she was lost six days ago near The Harvest, the Brattle Street restaurant...
...They were asking whose dog it was," Landin says, and they took down the phone number of the restaurant but the Harvest bartender "didn't get their number, draft...
...Part of the problem is a cultural revulsion against the idle rich," says University of Montana economist Thomas Power. "In our culture there's something noble about people who make their living sweating, risking their fingers and lives and limbs, harvesting logs or digging minerals out of the earth. Somebody living on retirement income, somebody working in a service industry, we begin to wrinkle our noses." However, Power sighs, "very few of us in future are going to mine the earth, harvest logs or work in blue-collar manufacturing, and we'd better get used...
...deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes $100 of taxpayers' money to get a dollar where it's needed...