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...Nantucket's east-most point is the town of Siasconset (called 'Sconset by all the locals). This is really a small town within the larger town of Nantucket. Artists and literati are often seen here. Street painters can also be spotted out in front of the bookstore or around the small post office which marks the way to the beach...
...editor of the March of Time from 1941 to 1946, then joined Newsweek as a senior editor and six years later retired to write fiction, producing three novels, including Tower in the West, a parable of brotherly love, which won the 1957 Harper novel prize; of a stroke; in Siasconset, Mass...
...reads the shingle over the door of a little inn at Siasconset, Mass., on cool, sandy, windswept Nantucket Island. Within, the sessions of the 'Sconset Summer School have been going on for many weeks. The school was founded in 1922 as "The School of Opinion" by Frederic C. Howe, political economist, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Immigration. Its first three periods of the 1924 season were devoted to Psychology and Psychoanalysis, to Art and Literature, to Politics and International Affairs. Last week the fourth session, on Opinion, began...
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