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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piano series featuring Steve Heck is set to occur on the main level of the bookstore from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays for the next two weeks...
Rawlins was a member of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC), whose members believed the council's main purpose should be as a voice for liberal causes. Many representatives from PUCC were elected in 1995, in largely uncontested house elections...
...tractors just keep coming around the corner of Mulberry and Main in downtown Wilmington, Ohio, a sputtering battalion of Oliver Super 55s, McCormick Farmalls and Minneapolis Molines--the stars of the Clinton County Corn Festival's 1997 parade. Families line the sidewalks, children wave to the farmers as they pass, but after 20 minutes Kathy Wiley has seen enough. A sylphlike executive secretary at Warner Bros. in Burbank, Calif., Wiley, 31, switches off her videocamera and wrinkles her nose at her husband Jim, who is busy snapping photos...
...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 this town had been like, and see what it could be again." She pauses and shakes her head. "Then Columbia Pictures left town, and everybody forgot all about...
...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...