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August's local and national holidays include Lizzie Borden Liberation Day, celebrated in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,; Big Band Sunday, in Cornwall, Pa.; Wausau's Funday and Possum Festival in Chipley, Fla.; National Smile Week in San Antonio; the International Zucchini Festival in Harrisville, N.H.; as well as the Army Nurses Pay Raise Anniversary and the birthday of Joseph Justus Scaliger, described by loyalists as "the founder of scientific chronology...
...made to pay, and those who seek to terrorize should be stopped. I agree that now is the time for Americans to show what we are made of, to be at our best. But our best is not rage and retribution. Our best is hope and justice. BARRY MITCHELL Wausau...
...Three fetched mammoth prices at Christie's; the fourth is on its way. Magnolias on a Wooden Table, bought by a Racine, Wis., resident for $5, will fetch $200,000 to $300,000, Christie's estimates, at auction on May 25. Two Magnolias on Blue Plush, which cost a Wausau, Wis., man $29, sold at Christie's last May for $882,500. And Magnolia Blossoms on Blue Velvet and Cherokee Roses were purchased together in Tucson, Ariz., for $88. They sold at Christie's in December...
...recently. Green Bay? Too cold, said N.F.L. players. Too isolated. Too white. Too old. "Coaches used to threaten us," says White. "Shape up, or we're shipping you to Green Bay." Lost on some people are Wisconsin's other blessings: the pride in workmanship that links towns (Oshkosh, Kohler, Wausau) to products, the ingenuity that created the democratic charter of the Packers, the loyalty that keeps Lambeau Field sold out through thick and thin, the spirit of the people who shovel the snow out of the stadium for free...
EVIE ROSEN, 69; WAUSAU, WIS.; retired needlework-shop owner Disheartened by news stories about the homeless, Rosen wanted to do something to help: "Almost every home has little balls of yarn. I thought if we all could knit 7-in. by 9-in. rectangles, we could stitch them together and make a lot of afghans." She started Warm Up America in 1992, getting the word out to churches, retirement homes and craft shops. Last year, with help from other organizations, the group distributed 16,000 afghans...