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...fans who may not have experienced the pleasures of wine, Richard Childress, owner of three Nextel Cup teams and two Busch series teams, has turned his Lexington, N.C., vineyard into a racing enthusiast destination. He markets to race fans with his Fast Track Wine Club and RCR (Richard Childress Racing) collection bottles, and NASCAR fans stop in for tastings during race season. This year he will release the Childress Classic, a checkered flag-labeled cab merlot blend aimed at the first-time wine drinker. He's also going to put his vineyard logo on a few cars. "Wine...
...Harvard Salient. He will provide a critical look at the absurdities and inanities of the post-modern academy here at Harvard in his column, which will run on alternate Mondays. "Hub Happenings": Stephen C. Bartenstein ’08 is a government concentrator in Lowell House and a proud Lexington, Mass. native. His column will provide mischievously mordant commentary on Bay State life as it relates to the Harvard scholar. On alternate Mondays, Stephen will opine on everything from breaking state news to the more outlandish stories unique to the People’s Republic. "Thoughts en Masse": Malcom...
...KIRBY ’09 of Lexington, Mass. and Pforzheimer House Associate Sports Chair...
DIED. Bradford Washburn, 96, climber, cartographer and aerial photographer who in 1951 founded the all encompassing Museum of Science in Boston; in Lexington, Mass. Labeled "a roving genius of mind and mountains" by outdoor photographer Ansel Adams, Washburn mapped the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, using prisms and lasers to measure depth; and in 2000 he helped revise the height of Mount Everest, up to 29,035 ft., a 7-ft. correction...
...survived the Battle of Lexington and Concord and crossed the Delaware alongside Washington, but Colonel Loammi Baldwin—who received his master’s degree from Harvard in 1785—now sees his legacy in danger, according to one local official. A memorial in nearby Woburn commemorating the life of the war hero may be downsized due to road expansion. “So much for the thanks of a grateful nation,” said David W. Edmonds, member of the Woburn Town Planning Board and the primary force behind the fight for the memorial?...