Miscellany

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Farm Fresh
Vermont Fresh Network joins chefs with farmers

A collaboration in New England
is trying to nurture relationships
between farmers and the
restaurants that rely on them.
(New England Travel & Leisure)

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Reel Magic
Filling the silver screen

It may not be Sundance or Cannes yet,
Still, the women behind the Newport
Intl. Film Festival know this baby is
going to be a star!
(Rhode Island Monthly)

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Could Your Kids Get
Into Brown?
What Works Now... And What Doesn't

Dazzling grades and great SATs don't
always cut it. Here's all you need to know
to beat the Ivies' admissions crunch.
(Rhode Island Monthly)

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A Day and a Night at the Opera

When a touring production of Madama
Butterfly comes to Providence, a lot
of drama takes place behind the scenes.
(Providence-Journal Sunday magazine)

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From Stage to Screen

When plays are adapted to film,
the results are sometimes
wonderful (Albee) and
sometimes disasterous
(Altman).
(Diversion)

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Hail to the Chief

Hollywood's recent presidential
landslide of films is a varied lot.
The theme is as old as movies
themselves.
(Diversion)

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This Good 'ol Boy Sets
His Strugglin' Days
to Music

Jon LaChappelle has been through
a lot, from several near-fatal fast-living
accidents to getting rich, and he puts
it all into his country music songs.
(Providence-Journal Sunday magazine)

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Mr. Shipwreck

Jim Jenney's obsession is not only
documenting the sites of shipwrecks,
but compiling a comprehensive list of
every one of them in American waters.
(Yankee)

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Herreshoff Genius Enshrined

A family museum chronicles the
work of the brilliant marine designer
Nathaneal  Greene Herreshoff and the
history of his many America's Cup winners.
(Soundings)

History of the WWII
Life Raft Emergency
Fishing Kit

An appendix chapter recounting the
development history of the Navy's WWII
life raft emergency fishing kit, made by
Ashaway Line & Twine.
(From The Tapestry of My Happy Life,
by Julian Titsworth Crandall)