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That's the town Hawley thought she was moving to, but in her years here she has caught but one glimpse of the place. It happened, she tells the group, in 1992, when Columbia Pictures came to town to shoot old-time street scenes for the movie version of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. The film crew closed off downtown and spruced up the old buildings, turning the place into a roseate vision of itself--and attracting hundreds of Wilmingtonians to Main Street. "People were mingling, striking up conversations and laughing," says Hawley, "and suddenly they could remember what...
...youth-gang problem. Newcomers and old-timers are seeing their visions of small-town life clash, with cultural battles erupting in school-board and city-council meetings. "I moved here because I wanted the cohesiveness and convenience of a town where you could walk to everything," says Marcy Hawley, 49, a Bostonian who came to Wilmington in 1978 and runs a boutique publishing house on Main Street. "But that town is almost gone now. Sometimes it feels as if life here is spinning out of control...
...Wilmington's Design Review Board, Chamberlain discovered that the town's "good-ole-buddy network" of businessmen and politicians isn't always grateful for fresh perspectives. Teaming up with a preservationist group led by two other outsiders--John Baskin, 56, a ruminative writer from South Carolina, and former Bostonian Hawley, whose Orange Frazer Press specializes in books about Ohio--Chamberlain became involved in a crusade to create a downtown shopping-and-entertainment zone. Mayor Eveland and the city council liked the idea, but never came up with a way to finance it. The activists also tried to persuade Eveland...
WHEN I SAW THE PICTURE OF MY cousin Andrew Hawley on your cover, I was reminded of the situation in which my grandfather (Trooper Hawley's great-grandfather) was placed during the early years of this century. The perceived threat was in the Philippines, and a Republican President, wielding a "big stick," wanted to ensure peace and maintain American interests. Some have called the Aguinaldo Philippine insurrection and its aftermath America's first Vietnam. I guess things really never change over the course of a century. STEVE ARMSTRONG Lincolnshire, Illinois Via E-mail...
...both Serbia and Serb-held Bosnia must be destroyed, which will prevent Serbia from furnishing weapons and fuel to proxies in Bosnia. The arming of Bosnia must occur, with logistical support from Western powers. To continue with empty talk just buys Serbia time to implement its fascist agenda. GORDON HAWLEY Ottawa...