Word: lewiston
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...year-old core customers--aren't much interested in old-school labels like Dewar's or Wild Turkey. Catching their eye means selling at bars; bars in turn influence retailers. That's why the bar show is a must for firms like White Rock Distilleries of Lewiston, Maine, which flogs such novelties as schnapps in flavors called Poison (Wild Berry) and Sting (Sour Raspberry). Because the slogan for the new line is Have You Had Your Shots Today?, samples are served by statuesque blonds in white-vinyl nurse uniforms and thigh-high stockings. The visual becomes even more apt after...
...Pierian Sodality has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Conductor, Modeste Eugene Alloo, of Cambridge; president, Wilfred Jacobs Brown '17, of Plymouth; vice-president, Albert Sprague Coolidge 1G., of Pittsfield; secretary, Winfield Scott Libbey '18, of Lewiston, Me.; treasurer, Philip Dudley Woodbridge '17, of West Newton; manager, David Oakes Woodbury '18, of Ogunquit, Me.; assistant manager, Leo Berthier Drake '18, of Lewiston...
Your story on how Somali immigrants are moving into Lewiston, Maine, described some of the resulting tensions in the town [LETTER FROM MAINE, Oct. 28]. The problems that the town had absorbing 1,100 Somalis showed a good reason to support an immigration time-out. The era of Ellis Island is past. Today's immigrants are coming to the third most populous nation in the world. America is unable to absorb any more immigrants. What's more, some of these people represent a groundswell of cultural change that their homelands obviously need. Enabling them to emigrate will only prolong...
...Somalis, some carrying LOVE THY NEIGHBOR! signs, recently joined one another in a Sunday walk from a downtown church to the local mosque. Hibat, one of the speakers at the march, told the gathering, "No matter what color, race, ethnicity or religion, we are all Americans and citizens of Lewiston...
...trying too. Mohamed recalls that last year a policeman asked her husband to call if he had any problems after Sept. 11, and a concerned teacher asked Hibat if she felt scared. Mohamed says she nods hello to her neighbors and they usually smile back. Indeed, she likes Lewiston so much that she talked it up to her brother in Atlanta, who now lives in the area...