From banker to tinkerer of antique player pianos
Charles Sebastian, once a South Florida stockbroker and bank vice-president, swerved into reviving old mechanical music. He built Rinky Tink, Inc., a warehouse workshop that repairs and sells turn‑of‑century pianos, jukeboxes, and related machines. Buyers hail from Hawaii to the mainland as rolls and restorations prosper.
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Miami
Fla
Charles Sebastian
Sebastian
South Florida
South Miami
Charlie Sebastian
Rinky Tink, Inc
Hawaii
QRS
Liberace
Roger Williams
Rinky Tink
Vermont Steak House Offer Echoes Grandma’s Dinner
A Bennington restaurant at 716 Main Street invites patrons to dine at The Vermont Steak House with a menu claimed to recall old fashioned value and meals as good as grandma used to make.
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Vermont
Main Street
Ben-nington
Putting Food By review notes updated edition
Carlo Wolter highlights the second printing of Putting Food By by Hertzberg Greene and Greene Press. The updated guide covers canning freezing and preserving with new chapters on tomatoes and safety practices. It blends practical instructions with homey advice, encouraging garden harvests and buying fresh produce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hertzberg
Vaughn & Greene
Stephen Greene Press
Brattleboro
Carlo Wolter
Janet Greene
Rashomon at Encore Playhouse West Dover
Rashomon at Encore Playhouse West Dover stages a theatrical adaptation of the Japanese story with Clay Massey’s set, John Spalla’s lighting, and strong performances by Giaimo Berel Levi Hinchman Spalla. The production runs nightly through Saturday with tickets via box office 464-3392.
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Diana Stagger
West Dover
Encore Playhouse
Clay Massey
John Spalla
Anthony Giaimo
Avrom Berel
Daniel Levi
David Hinchman
Lynne Moss
Phyllis Lehmann
Rore
Betty Spalla
Rashomon
This Nation Under God revue at Old Sturbridge Village
Old Sturbridge Village presents a bicentennial historical revue This Nation Under God in the museum theater daily 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. through Aug 31. The 30 minute program blends diaries sermons songs and paintings to show early 19th century New England life and its link to national growth.
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Sturbridge
Mass
New England
Museum Theater
New Visitor Center
Old Sturbridge Village
New
Margaret Pratt
Her
Virginia Bell
Beatrice Tutino
Arthur F. Schrader
Edward Kemp
Nancy Duval Berube
Robert C. Ekstrom
John Ebesen
Bruce R. Smith
Mary Stark
Massachusetts Council On the Arts and Humanities
CBS ZigZag and Trinity Rule TV Tonight
CBS offers ZigZag at 8 tonight about an insurance investigator dying of a brain tumor who takes the blame for a murder to help his wife, then is cured. Also at 8, The Cowboys on ABC with John Wayne guiding a cattle drive and rookie kids into men.
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George Kennedy
John Wayne
PBS
NBC
Boston Ballet at Jacob's Pillow in August Week
The Boston Ballet Company brings two programs to Jacob's Pillow the week of August 5 to 9 in a mix of classic and contemporary works. The program features The Road of the Phoebe Snow, Tarantella, Concerto, and Rags, with pieces by Beatty, Balanchine, Walker, Stolzel, and Cunningham.
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Lee, Mass
Boston Ballet Company
Jacob's Pillow
Phoebe Snow
Talley Beatty
Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
Tarantella
George Balanchine
Norman Walker
Gottfried Stolzel
Ron Cunningham
Scott Joplin
New England
Boston Ballet
America
E. Virginia Williams
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Victor
Sears Roebuck
Christian Science Publishing Society
By Edward Pinsonneault
Shaftsbury
John Nyquist Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury School
Bennington
Iron Kettle Restaurant
Shaftsbury, Vt
William D. Laffler
United Press International
Nancy Nevins
Barbra Streisand
Tom Cat
Tom Catalano
Miss Nevins
Nancy
Sonny Face
Tom Cat Records
Courage
Sweetwater
Billie
Sam Cooke
Billie Holiday
Lady Day
Sam
Cooke
RCA
Helen Humes
New York
Ellis
Big House
Park- McCullough
North Bennington
Lawrence F. Powers
Powers
Vermont Council On the Arts
Park-McCullough House
National Endowment For the Arts
Federal Arts Agency
Washington, D.C
Old
Rockford Files
Rockford
Jackie Cooper
CBS
London
Golem
THE
Dorset
Wahi
Dorset Players
Harvey
Mary Chase
the Playhouse
Jelly Mill
Rt. 7
Manchester
Arthur Fiedler
Boston
Chicago Lyric Opera
Savings & Loan Association
Dial
Peggy
Featuring
Bennington's Own
Bing Buell
Russ
Lead Guitar
Cal
Kojak" Smed ON
Walloomsac, New York
Potter's Wheel
Water Street
Williamstown
Massachusetts
By Pat Probst
Gilman
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