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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills of Corsica. Another detachment is moving to new headquarters at Aubagne, a suburb of Marseille -marking the first time that the Legion has been stationed on the French mainland in peacetime. "Transporting the Legion from Sidi-bel-Abbès is like uprooting a gnarled olive tree," says Legionnaire Colonel Alberic Vaillant. "It requires care and attention to make sure the old tree will flourish in new soil...
Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: The Vinegar Tree with Faye Emerson...
Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Margaret O'Brien in Under the Yum-Yum Tree...
...spent half of almost every year on the Mediterranean island of Ischia. His Ischia landscapes are among his best works, but they were more the landscapes of a dream than of nature. No sun bathed them; they seemed to be lit from within. And sometimes a tree or a mountainside would take on the shape of a bird, a face or a giant eye. Gilles painted Ischia's fishermen, but they were as lonely as his gods, as tortured as his Ophelia and Lear. Whatever his subject, it was thick with melancholy...
...square miles in breadth and two centuries in depth, veined with the spilled blood of successive owners-the Indians, the Spanish, the French for a moment in time, then the Anglo-Saxons, "roaring with Protestant scripture and boiled whisky, changing the face of the earth: felling a tree which took 200 years to grow, in order to extract from it a bear or a capful of wild honey...