Tree of Life novel marks frontier journal insight
John Cunningham reviews Hugh Nissenson’s The Tree of Life, a 1811 frontier tale featuring Thomas Keene, educated ex-minister, and Johnny Appleseed ally John Chapman. The narrative blends diary entries and sketches about survival, faith, desire, and life among 26 settlers in the Ohio Territory, with vivid frontier detail and moral tension.
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John Chapman
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Nissenson
Fanny
Tree of Life
John Cunningham
Freedance
Famed organist Carlos Curley to perform in town
Internationally known organist Carlos Curley will give a concert at St. Andrew's By-the-Sea Episcopal Church on Tuesday December 17 at 7 p.m. He has played to full houses at London's Albert Hall and venues in Copenhagen Ipswich and Godalming Surrey and recently at the White House. Curley recalls more than 100 works from memory and has made several recordings. he is praised as extrovert, exciting and musical by the London Express and News.
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Godalming
Surrey
White House
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London Express
Mary Lou Biopic Lacks Depth and Focus
The book about Mary Lou Retton titled Mary Lou Creating an Olympic Champion presents a glossy arc from child gymnast in West Virginia to 1984 Olympic gold. It overemphasizes cliches, shifts focus to Bela Karolyi, and omits detailed family sacrifices and emotional stakes.
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Doug Flutie
Babe Zaharias
Dorothy Hammill
Joe Louis
Bob Richards
Mary Lou
Mary Lou Retton
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Bela Karolyi
John Powers
Boston Globe
West Virginia
Houston
Karolyi
Bela
Nadia Comaneci
America
Scripps Howard News Service
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