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Day Trips from the Lehigh Valley
DAY TRIPPIN' •Eagles/Carolina pre-season game, Aug. 15. $80. Whitehall-Coplay PTO, Rhonda, 610-266-1995. •"Noah," lunch at Shady Maple, July 24. $88. Landis Valley Village, Wilbur Chocolate, Sturgis Pretzels, lunch, Aug. 20. $74. "Motown,"...Tags: New York Yankees, Trips and Vacations, Holiday Vacations, Music, Alburtis
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In the Galleries -- May 19, 2013
In Aberdeen Aberdeen Recreation and Cultural Center Gallery, 225 Third Ave. S.E.: Pottery and ceramics show. Hours are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays. 605-626-7081. Dacotah...Tags: Paleontology, Weddings, Groton, Fossils, Artists
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: Criminals, University of California, Los Angeles, Trials, The Getty, UNESCO
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder
It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather's spirit was content in the Pennsylvania town where his body has lain for six decades. "Grandpa...
Tags: Museum of Natural History, Politics, Carbon County, Human Interest, National Government
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Saving soldiers' lives: Tour, exhibit and festival honor Gettysburg work of Daughters of Charity
When the Daughters of Charity awakened June 27, 1863, the pastoral grounds of their Emmitsburg, Md,. property had become a Union Army encampment for thousands of Union Army officers and men destined to fight during the Battle of Gettysburg. This would...
Tags: Breads, Human Interest, Nursing, Armed Conflicts, Medical Specialization
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Smithsburg still thriving after 200 years
julieg@herald-mail.comChristopher Steiffel Smith ended up dying in a poorhouse, but the town he founded 200 years ago — Smithsburg — is thriving today. Smith, who had been a stone mason, was believed to be in his early 60s when he bought Shadrach’s Lot...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Georgetown, Arts, Distilling and Brewing Industry, Landforms
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Re-opening for Center in the Square
reporterAfter years of planning and hardwork, Center in the Square is open to the public. Roanoke's cultural center re-opened Saturday morning to lots of fanfare with a ribbon cutting by city and center leaders. Center in the Square closed down while a multi-...Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Arts, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Architecture, The Getty, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Recreation and Outdoors calendar
Canoe/kayak Today, May 19: USA Canoe/Kayak Whitewater Slalom Team Trials and Deep Creek Open, Adventure Sports Center International, Deep Creek Lake, Garrett County. Admission: free. Children's Adventure Series and Kids Day at The Races, 11 a.m.-2 p.m....Tags: Somerville, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Somerset County (Maryland), Garrett County, Perry Hall
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Go eye a kite
Frequent visitors to the beaches of Delray and Boca Raton may spot above the coastline the distinct appearance of floating ocean creatures. Drifting high in the daytime breeze are 60-foot-long whales and 90-foot-tall squids. These hand-stitched,...
Tags: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Arts and Culture, Arts
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A. Quincy Jones, overlooked genius? Hammer Museum makes the case
The Hammer Museum exhibition opening May 25, "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," redresses what curators consider a major omission in the history of Los Angeles Modernism. Jones, they argue, had as much, if not more, influence on Southern...
Tags: Architecture, Religion and Belief, Anglicanism, Museum of Modern Art, Christianity
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Reno County Museum needs new place to store artifacts
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe Reno County Museum needs your help to get some historic items out of a dark room and on display. The museum outgrew its current building in 2009 and they have been using temporary storage since then. But now they needs a new place to store some of...Tags: Arts and Culture
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