Reading Corner | Georgetown teens win national prize for ‘Night of the Living Libarary’
Wed, 02 May 2012 16:14:08 -0700
T wo Georgetown teenagers won a national prize recently for making a short film, “Night of the Living Library.”
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The President's Daughter
Fri, 18 May 2012 11:56:40 -0700
February 14, 1884, should have been a joyous day in the Roosevelts' New York home. But Teddy's mother, Mitte, was believed to have contracted typhoid and had been bedridden for weeks. During this period, Teddy's wife, Alice, had given birth to their first child, a daughter, also named Alice. Typical of the times, Alice had helped tend to her mother-in-law right up to the hours before she herself ...
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Blood, gore, tourism: The ax murderer who saved a small town
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:05:50 -0700
This is a story of murder and tourism and ghosts. Of civic failure and the illusion of certainty. It’s a Midwestern story that begins in 1912, before the state of Iowa became a patchwork of vanishing villages, before Interstate 80 and the World’s Largest Truck Stop. It is the year the John Deere company begins building tractors and Arizona enters the Union and a surprising number of Republicans ...
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