Graveyard rubbing expert to lecture in Leverett
LEVERETT Mass A slide illustrated program by Dr Melvin Williams on New England graveyard rubbings and epitaph art will be held Friday May 2 at 8 pm at Leverett Craftsmen and Artists and a field trip to Old Deer field graveyard is planned for Saturday May 3 from 10 am to 2 pm The event includes a copy of his book and is funded by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Williams an English professor at American International College discusses how Puritan gravestones evolved from skulls to depictions of eternal life and he will guide hands on rubbings and share his research findings.
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Leverett
Mass
Elizabeth Bent
Melvin Williams
New England
Hartford
Deerfield
Massachusetts Council On the Arts and Humanities
Leverett Craftsmen & Artists
American International College
Springfield
Williams
Brookfield Craft Center
Connecticut
Journal
National Education Association
Old Deerfield
Book review of J. W. Gitt’s Sweet Land of Liberty
David McConkey reviews J W Gitt’s Sweet Land of Liberty, edited by McKinley C Olson, Jerome S Ozer in New York. The 224 page volume priced at 8.95 appears amid a bicentennial surge of biographies and essays on colonial leaders and political heritage.
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J.W. Gitt
Sweet Land OF Liberty
McKinley C. Olson
Jerome
Ozer
New York
Sweet Land of Liberty by J W Gitt and his editorials
This recollection highlights J W Gitt a York Pennsylvania editor known for publishing the Gazette and Daily for 55 years his commitment to liberty and constitutional rights his stance against racism nuclear testing and the House Un American Activities Committee and his early advocacy of the New Deal consumer rights ecology and international cooperation.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
FDR
New Deal
League of Nations
United Nations
Gitt
York
Codorus
Gazette and Daily
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
The
Gazette
Henry Wallace
Vermont libraries win Elva Smith Grants for children
Three Vermont public libraries Ilsley Public Library Middlebury Fletcher Free Library Hartland Public Libraries win $1,000 Smith Grants to boost children services. Awards approved by Vermont Board of Libraries. ceremony held in Montpelier April 18. Applications for 1976 grants open fall 1975.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Elva Sophronia Smith
John McCrossan
Ilsley Public Library
Middlebury
Fletcher Free Library
Burlington
Hartland Public Libraries
Hartland
North End
Department of Libraries
Smith
Supreme Court
Berkshire Symphony finale in Chapin Hall Williamstown
Berkshire Symphony conducts final season concert under Julius Heggs in Chapin Hall Williamstown at 8 30 p m on Friday May 2 with Susan St Amour viola soloist in Walton Viola Concerto Mendelssohn Italian Symphony No 4 and Haydn Symphony No 98 Tickets 2 at Harts Drugs Williams College students and children under 12 free Call (413) 597 2127 for details Venue hosts Williams Parents Weekend event and honors Thomas P King Artist designation for St Amour.
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Williamstown
Mass
Berkshire Symphony
Julius Heggs
Chapin Hall
Susan St. Amour
William Walton
Williams College
Mendelssohn
Haydn
Ms. St. Amour
Thomas P. King
Pittsfield
Albany Symphony Orchestra
Williams
Oberlin
Indiana University
William Lincer
New York Philharmonic
David Dawson
Berkshire String Quartet
Music Mountain
Walter Trampler
Aspen
Colorado
William Berman
N.Y
Salomon
Felix Mendelssohn
Italy
Harts’ Drugs
Call
At the Movies Twin Cinemas Holiday Film Lineup
The Strongest Man in the World ends today at Twin Cinemas. Escape to Witch Mountain follows as the holiday special continues. Shampoo, a Beatty comedy about life and love in 1968 America, plays at Cinema II. The Four Musketeers screens at Harte The Harte. The Wild Child ends tonight at Nickelodeon in Williamstown. Women in Love begins Friday at Manchester Cinema, running through Tuesday with Scenes from a Marriage in English.
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Walt Disney
Witch Mountain
Warren Beatty
America
Harte
Nickelodeon
Williamstown
Mass
France
Manchester
Bergman
Gitt remembered for liberty themed editorials and local grit
The piece profiles Jess Gitt, editor of the Gazette and Daily, whose essays on American liberty and history education drew praise and controversy. It notes Detroit's Big Three pulling ads after pollution editorials, racist backlash in York County, and the Klan firebombing attempt amid his national recognition. Gitt sold the paper in 1970 and died shortly before learning he was named on Nixon's Enemies List.
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South Vietnam
Gitt
Jess Gitt
The
Gazette
Daily
Detroit
Mason-Dixon Line
York County
York
President Nixon
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Book Review
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Indochina
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J. P. Salomon
London
Mozart
Gap
Walt Disney Productions
Julie Christie
Goldie Hawn
Bennington, VT
Harvest Inn Restaurant
Four Musketeers
Richard Lester
Three Musketeers
North Street
Bennington
Office Products Center
Main Street
Economy Auto Stores, Inc
Main St
Liberty
Olson
Ralph Nadar
David McConkey
Merrimac
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Banner
Pat Tac
Mais
ATL Family Restaurants
Monument Plaza
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