Edmund Fitzgerald sinking recounted in folk song
A UPI report notes the 1975 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior during a blizzard, crew of 29, 26,100 tons of taconite, and Gordon Lightfoot’s folk song. It also recounts the Grand Zenith disappearance off Nova Scotia in 1976, with Coast Guard and allied search efforts, weather, debris findings, and hypotheses about breakup.
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Edmund Fitzgerald
Boston
UPI
Lake Superior
Canada
Cleveland
Ohio
Gordon Lightfoot
Coast Guard
Raymond Massey
Yarmouth
Nova Scotia
Panamian
Providence
R.I
Teesport
England
Charles Winfrey
Newport
T.K. Tsou
Grand Zenith
Moran Shipping Co
Boston Coast Guard
Atlantic
Nantucket Shoals
Argo
Dallas
Cape Cod
Cape Elizabeth
N.C
Bermuda
U.S. Navy
Air Force
Cmdr
John Carroll
Search and Rescue Coordination Center
Hoosac School to host Mark Schwabe sculpture exhibit
Hoosac School in Hoosick N Y will host a sculpture show by Mark Eliot Schwabe in the library from November 13 through December 3 with weekday hours 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A Sunday reception from 3 to 5 p.m. and a Friday November 11 slide lecture in the Lowenfish Auditorium are planned. Schwabe, executive director of the Arts Center of the Rensselaer Council of the Arts in Troy, holds an M A from SUNY Albany and has shown widely in the Capital District and New York City including Ward Nasse Gallery Noyes Van Cline Davenport Albany Institute and Schenectady Museum events in 1975 1976 1977.
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Hoosick
N.Y
Hoosac School
Mark Eliot Schwabe
Lowenfish
Schwabe
Rensselaer Council of the Arts
Troy
State University of New York
Albany
Capital District
New York City
Ward Nasse
Noyes van Cline
Davenport
Albany Institute
Schenectady Museum
Blacklisted Filmmaker Carl Foreman Returns to Hollywood
UPI reports Carl Foreman, once blacklisted in the McCarthy era, returns to Hollywood with three new projects at Universal. He will produce Specter and Kramer's War, and co-create a Mayer and Thalberg TV miniseries. Foreman also wrote Tai Pan and The Day The World Ended, emphasizing strong protagonists and thematic depth.
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Hollywood
UPI
Carl Foreman
England
Foreman
British Film Institute
The
Film Producers Association
Royal Society of Arts
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Winston
London
Universal
Ing Hitchcock
Paul Newman
Audrey Hepburn
Kramer
Channel Islands
Motion Picture Academy
Louis B. Mayer
Thalberg
Gable
New stage set for Oldcastle Theatre Blithe Spirit
The Oldcastle Theatre Company and Southern Vermont College enlarged the stage for Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. They added four feet of stage right and covered the stage with masonite at a total material cost near 1400 dollars. Two SVC students join the production as Edith the maid and the stage manager. Blithe Spirit opens Thurs Nov 17 at 8 p.m. and runs 10 performances over three weekends ending Dec 4.
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Oldcastle Theatre Company
Noel Coward
Southern Vermont College
Night Watch
Oldcastle
SVC
Laurie Buckley
New London
N.H
Edith
Stephen Lonergan Hanna
Pittsford
N.Y
Donated painting worth half a million shocks New Bedford
Jacob Rubin, 82, donated a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington to the New Bedford Public Library in 1970 after buying it for 500. Experts say the life sized 1800 painting is among five known Stuart Washington portraits. Rubin, a Russian immigrant, says he is glad the work will be enjoyed and owes America nothing. Charles Merrill Mount called the discovery potentially the most important of his lifetime.
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New Bedford
Mass
UPI
Jacob Rubin
George Washington
New Bedford Public Library
America
Rubin
United States
Washington
New Bedford Boys Club
Gilbert Stuart
Providence
R.I
Hartford
New York City
Boys Club
Charles Merrill Mount
Stuart
Paper cutting art traced to North China origins
Washington United Press International reports that preschool children make cutout pictures using the ancient craft of paper cutting from North China. The practice, known as window flowers, dates back to about 100 A.D. with red paper cutouts once used to decorate tung oil coated windows for subtle transparency.
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Washington
UPI
North
China
Easy Country Feelings by Tom Eslick Reviewed
Vermont based singer guitarist Tom Eslick releases his third album Easy Country Feelings. The set blends contemporary folk with his own compositions, featuring steel guitar by Rob Hykus and songs about nature, rural life, and urban frustrations.
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Tom Eslick
Eslick
Upstate
New York
Vermont
The
Statos of
Green Mountain Records
Northfield
Burlington
Rob
Luckless Hobo
Woody Guthrie
Bob Dylan
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Library of Hoosac School
Hoosick, N.Y
U.S
al Pacino
Rocky
New England
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Coco
Lonesome Road Band
John Prine
Tin Pan Alley
Kathy
AL Bain
Comfort
Main ST
Bennington
Jane Fonda
the Galaxy
PG. Technico
Elton John
Cat Stevens
Benn
Ingti
Gregory Peck
AMONT
Kathleen Quinlan
Deborah
Bibs Andersson
Kathleen Quinlan Sylvia Sidney Martine Bartlett
Lorraine Gary Signe Hasse
Susan Tyrrell
Diane Varsi
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