Reading to Mr. White
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A nurse's aide recalls the time in 1984 when she got a job in the Brooklin, ME, home of the author E.B. White, then 85 years old and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Most of her job consisted of her reading to him, including highly emotional times for both when she read from his work.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1995
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The other side of the coin
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Sculptor James Earle Fraser was chosen by the US Treasury in 1911 to design a replacement for the Liberty Head nickel. Fraser came up with the idea for the Indian Head-Buffalo nickel, which was so admired the Treasury ordered vending machine slots widened to accommodate it.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1993
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The young man and the sea
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Young Ernest Hemingway was clearly impressed by the maritime life he experienced as an 11-year-old when his mother took him from Iowa to Martha's Vineyard in Sep 1910. He wrote a fictional Martha's Vineyard sea adventure upon returning to sixth grade.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1993
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