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Roger Lantagne, a medic with the 101st Airborne, married a Frenchwoman when the war ended and retired nine years ago to Enghien-les-Bains outside Paris after more than three decades of military service in Korea, Viet Nam and Europe. Lantagne, a native of Lewiston, Me., remembers that he was tending German and American wounded in a village church not far from Utah Beach when the village was recaptured by the Germans. "A high-ranking German, accompanied by troops with automatic weapons, suddenly burst into the church. They looked at us, at the bloodstained pews and the German wounded, then...
Peter Vendrillo Lewiston...
...pinning his hopes on Maine's relatively few 78 percent overall unemployment rate and on the conservative Republican instincts of the state's many small farmers. Both sides agree that the outcome could hinge on Emery's ability to hold on to traditionally Democratic voters in mill towns like Lewiston. Portland and Westburg--voters who have backed him for the House, but who now fear that their jobs may be the next...
This is not Denes' first tilt with environmental art. In 1979 at Artpark, a cultural complex in Lewiston, N.Y., she sowed a rice field, wrapped chains around a grove of trees, and near by buried a time capsule containing 40 existential questions. Samples: "Which do you think will prove ultimately more important to mankind-science or love?" "Do you believe mankind will become extinct one day?" In similar performances at a private site in 1968 and at Artpark in 1977, she buried samples of her haiku and other writings...
Christopher Keene, 35, of the Syracuse Symphony and Long Island Philharmonic. The most flamboyant of the five, Keene has already held a variety of music directorships, including those of the Spoleto Festival and of Art park, a state park for the arts in Lewiston, N.Y.; he frequently conducts at the New York City Opera. Keene is a master of the grand gesture and can make the sparks fly even in a piece as reflective as Britten's War Requiem. An exponent of new music, he led the U.S. premiere in 1981 of Philip Glass's visionary opera, Satyagraha...