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The Importance of Being Hans:
Hans Hofmann Modernizes the Moderns

Friday, April 13th, 2012
by Ann Rebecca Bleefeld on Playing Around

Painter, teacher and mentor Hans Hofmann’s considerable reputation as an innovator of ideas and methods, as well as one of the great influences on American

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Hampton Terrace—Southern Hospitality
In a Quaint New England Town

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Living Around

My husband John and I have now been married so long that every anniversary is “a big one.” So we pondered where we should go

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The Golden Age of Retailing

Friday, July 16th, 2010
by Claire McCurdy on Living Around

“The Charles Broadway Rouss Building shall keep everything calculated to make a man fashionable, a lady irresistible, and a family comfortable.”    Charles Broadway Rouss,

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Romantic Reads for Valentine’s Day — And Any Day

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
by Robin Weaver on Reading Around

Rupert Brooke, the World War I poet, once wrote in thinking of his beloved, “Today, I have been happy. I held a memory of you.”

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Mean Girls: The Evolution

Sunday, January 24th, 2010
by Aimee Garn on Living Around

For one year, a few decades ago, I was a very mean girl. I stopped speaking to my best friend, Sandy; I turned away when

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