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Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...
...Many critics in the Manhattan art scene, however, find him stubbornly irrelevant. "Wyeth's philosophy is Poor Richard's Almanack," sniffs Henry Geldzahler, former curator of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "His skies have no vapor trails, his people wear no wristwatches. He is the Williamsburg of American painting -- charming, especially when seen from a helicopter...
...College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, has established the Eddie Murphy scholarship endowment, which will provide financial aid of between $500 and $1000 to minority students from the greater New York area, the campus newspaper reported...
Iacocca, on the other hand, has promoted what he calls an "ethnic Williamsburg" concept in the restoration. His toughness softens as he describes his vision of having visitors "see exactly what your mother or father or grandparents saw. You would walk into the Great Hall and meditate and pray, because it is like a church--it is just beautiful." There would be exhibits explaining why Ellis had become "an island of tears," and "you could punch a computer and find out what boats your parents came on." Park Service officials in turn dismissed this as "an ethnic Disneyland...
...Williamsburg, Hasidic Jews lined the steets with their families. I hoped they were praying for me. One woman with a long skirt and a scarf over her head was passing out candy to the runners. "Have some candy for energy," she said...