Word: rural
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Wilson has spent most of his life in Johnstown, New York, an ethnic blue-collar town of 9,000 people, located about 45 miles northwest of Albany. The Wilsons live outside the town in a rural house. Behind their house is a cow farm; to the left, a horse farm...
...Wisconsin a lengthy investigation commissioned by the Capuchins said that nine friars stand accused of sexual misconduct at a rural boys' boarding school run by the venerable order. The report, which mentioned no names, disclosed that at least 21 students of the school -- St. Lawrence Seminary in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin -- say they were accosted by clerics between 1968 and 1992. The complaints against six ranged from enticement to intercourse with the children, offenses that would have produced criminal charges if they had been reported...
Bobby Shaw cannot remember when the voices started talking to him. Growing up in impoverished, rural Missouri, he had always been an odd boy, slow yet sometimes excitable, likable but strange. Bobby often wandered into the homes of others; he would sit in their living rooms, as if he lived there, until his father came and got him -- and punished him. "I thought if I whupped him, he would think harder the next time," Bobby's father David told a social worker. Bobby's sister Martha, two years his junior, helped him through first grade after he flunked it twice...
...BOTTOM LINE: A classic of rural Irish life proves equally entertaining, if sunnier, transported to the Caribbean...
...most popular play, which is enjoying a sterling production off- Broadway, Matura uses as his model Synge's finest work, The Playboy of the Western World. The 1921 original was set in County Mayo, in Ireland's remote rural west. The rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura...