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Delray Beach: Cason Cottage needs docents
The Delray Beach Historical Society is seeking docents for Cason Cottage, Delray Beach's historic house-museum. The Historical Society and the city recently restored the cottage, built in 1915. It sits on its original site and has been furnished to...Tags: Beach Vacations, Tourism and Leisure, Delray Beach, Florida
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City gets site where Mohegans captured rival
A spot in eastern Connecticut that marked the apex of fighting between two Native American tribes is now under municipal protection. The city of Norwich took ownership Friday of the Miantonomo Monument, a granite marker that had become overgrown with...Tags: Norwich, Tourism and Leisure, Rhode Island, Connecticut
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Buy a tree and help Leesburg free clinic
Leesburg Regional Medical Center, part of Central Florida Health Alliance's Go Green Committee, has partnered with Cherry Lake Tree Farm in Groveland for a community tree sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Human Resource parking area of LRMC, 600 E....Tags: Clermont, Montrose, Tangerine, Leesburg, Fires
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Corvettes, rallyes, Hobofest
Tribune staffCORVETTES ONLY The Sunburst Corvette Club hosts its annual Corvette Only Car Show Sept. 6 at Reichert Chevrolet, 5220 E. Northwest Hwy., Crystal Lake. Fee is $35 per car. Spectator admission is free. Visit www.sunburstcorvetteclub.com. GIMMICK RALLYE The...Tags: Transportation, Clubs and Associations, Adults, Health and Safety at School, Veterans Affairs
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Famed obelisk restored, home
ADDIS ABABA — Thousands of Ethiopians on Thursday cheered the long-awaited restoration of the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk to its original site in the country's north. The 80-foot piece of carved granite was refurbished over three years in Italy at...Tags: Tourism and Leisure
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Talk On Old Cemeteries
Stanley-Whitman Museum director Lisa Johnson is to speak next week about transforming the city's old cemeteries into living museums, while preserving and repairing the monuments for future generations. The program, sponsored by the cemetery commission,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Death and Dying
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See Hannah Montana 3D concert film
The Minneola Recreation Department will host Minneola Gym Flix today on a large screen at the City Hall gymnasium, 800 N. U.S. Highway 27. The feature will be Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds 3D concert film. Admission is free. Blankets...Tags: Clermont, Music, Tangerine, Montrose, Beverage Industry
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Woman finds calling in repairing religious statues
Special to the Chicago TribuneApril Albrecht was in church one day when she noticed a broken statue of the Virgin Mary. The paint was chipped and a hand was missing. Impulsively, she asked the pastor if she could take it home and "do something with it." He agreed, and a few weeks...Tags: Sculpture, North Carolina, Bridgeport (Chicago, Illinois), Roman Catholic, Christianity
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Where's the electricity? It's UAB week!
FAU Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsHey, buck up, Owl Country. It was just one game. I sense that the fog of melancholy that settled over the landscape following the drubbing out west has yet to dissipate. Take a towel and rub it away. We......Tags: Kevin Miller, Tina Turner, Ike Turner, Tourism and Leisure, Home Depot Incorporated
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Schools' racial makeup divides San Juan Capistrano
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKinoshita and Del Obispo elementary schools are just an athletic field apart, but for many in San Juan Capistrano, the gap is a potent symbol of an issue that has roiled this south Orange County town in recent years: school segregation. The schools are...Tags: Family, Racism, Civil Rights, High Schools, Elementary Schools
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Amy Tan's 'Bonesetter's Daughter' comes to San Francisco Opera House
Special to The TimesDEEP IN the womb of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, a famous novelist is giving a world-class mezzo-soprano a piece of her mind. Dressed in loose-fitting black pants and a matching T-shirt, lots of heavy, silver jewelry and eccentric-looking...Tags: Movies, Meryl Streep, Texas, Music Theater, Wayne Wang
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'September To Remember' As Windsor Celebrates 375th Birthday
Courant Staff WriterAfter 18 months of planning, organizers are ready to kick off a monthlong party today to celebrate the town's 375th birthday. "It's going to be a September to remember," said John Pier, chairman of Windsor 375, referring to a banner with the same...Tags: Paul Revere, Festive Event, Tourism and Leisure, Mark Twain, Abigail Adams
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