Word: lancasterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is fall in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, and Jacob Stoltzfoos is working his field much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the...
The News and Sentinel has been chronicling Colebrook since the paper was established in 1870. Fred and Esther Harrigan, John's parents, ran the paper for many years. For several years after John bought the Coos County Democrat in Lancaster, 30 miles south of Colebrook, he competed with his father...
When the shooting began, staff members at the News and Sentinel were putting their latest issue to bed, and Harrigan was on his way back from Lancaster, where he had been filling in on that paper for a staff member whose mother had died. "I heard the whole thing unfolding...
Overpopulation, overdevelopment, herbicides, pesticides, deforestation, poaching, rampant pollution--and let's not forget we on Earth haven't the foggiest idea how to dispose of spent nuclear fuel safely. Just think, in 20 years or less, we'll have our very own Mars! CHERYL Y. ESBENSHADE Lancaster, Pa.
Unlike Henry Fonda or Burt Lancaster, Stewart did not have the luck to star in melancholy-twilight masterpieces; his final films were mostly amiable and mundane. He eased into late maturity with rueful good humor, telling director Peter Bogdanovich, "After 70 it's all patch, patch, patch." And he remained...