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...idea of quitting collectively came 12 years after the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer, low birth weight and coronary disease. Lynn Smith, a newspaper editor in Monticello, Minn., and a former smoker, wrote editorials in the 1970s urging others to quit. Smith, who once told the New York Times he started smoking "as a teenager by picking up butts from the street during the Depression," organized a local event called "D-Day," or "Don't Smoke Day," in 1976. The next year, the California chapter of the American Cancer Society sponsored a similar...
...prize went to Annette Gordon-Reid’s work “The Hemingses of Monticello,” which profiled Sally Hemings’ family, which had several ties to the Jeffersons, according to Gordon-Reid. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...first book. I wrote some interesting facts and a motto for all 51 states. For Virginia, I said the motto was "The Old Dominion," which was very arrogant of Virginians, as the true Old Dominion was an empire of mole-men who lived underground. The mole-men built Monticello, of course. Virginian gentlemen still retain some of the old fashioned Southern gentlemanly Molemanic habits, such as when they greet each other, they touch each other's faces as though they are blind. In the book I promised to write more about mole-men later. 700 mole-man names seemed like...
...Jersey City, N.J. Asked about the recent New York-area flux of bigger festivals, which are much more popular in the western part of the country, Hogan answered simply, “It’s probably just about time.” ATP NY is being held in Monticello, NY, about two hours from Manhattan, from September 19th through the 21st.In addition to performing, My Bloody Valentine is curating the third night of the three-day festival. Each ATP is curated by one or more bands or celebrities, who are asked by Hogan to select all the bands, musicians...
Then fresh out of college and eager to tackle his first presidential race, Trippi - who has worked on every contested race in Iowa since 1980 - had organized all of Monticello's youngsters to caucus for Kennedy. His rival, Hogan, host of the county's largest caucus, had likewise organized the precinct's parents to caucus for Carter. When none of the kids dared defy their parents' wishes, Kennedy lost the precinct - and the county. "I remember being in the kitchen a few weeks before that when Ethel Kennedy came to visit our house, campaigning for Ted," James Hogan, Jr., Jimmy...