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Off the grid in Amish country
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI scrambled out of bed at dawn's first light, dashed to the barn to milk a cow, stopped by the chicken coop to collect fresh-from-the-hen eggs, then doubled back to the farmhouse for breakfast. Six of us gathered around the table at Verdant View Farm B&B,...Tags: Road Transportation, Farms, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Music, Travel
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Thanksgiving, an American meal
When Thanksgiving spread around the country in the mid-19th century, it was in the hope that holiday good feelings would heal the rift between North and South. So, the Thanksgiving menu had a certain amount of can't-we-all-get-together culinary...Tags: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Cake, Holidays, Christianity, Breads
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Paul Soldner dies at 89; ceramicist known for American raku
Paul Soldner, a ceramicist and longtime Scripps College teacher who introduced a pottery technique called American raku, died Monday at his home in Claremont after a period of declining health. He was 89.
"He was one of the greats in California...Tags: Building Material, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan, Arts, Colleges and Universities
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The Actress: Sherie Rene Scott on truth and artifice in 'Everyday Rapture'
NEW YORK — Just before Sherie Rene Scott debuted in "Everyday Rapture" at off-Broadway's Second Stage last spring, she panicked.
"I thought to myself, 'Oh, God, this could go really, really badly,' " the 43-year-old actress recalls about a...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Minority Groups, Celebrities, Martha Washington, Judy Garland
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The spin on Levi Leipheimer, an American cyclist you oughta know
OutpostsAn earlier post took note of cyclist Levi Leipheimer???s fund-raising brainstorm King Ridge Gran Fondo. Now here???s a look at the man behind the wheels: [Part 2 of 2] Ask most Americans if they know who Levi Leipheimer is and...... -
Hopis Expel Mennonite Missionaries
The Daily MirrorNov. 19, 1909: The Moquis of Arizona, now known as the Hopis, throw some Mennonite missionaries out of Oraibi.... -
'Mennonite in a Little Black Dress' by Rhoda Janzen
Rhoda Janzen begins "Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home" with a trifecta of midlevel tragedies: a hysterectomy, an automobile accident and a failed marriage. None is quite epic enough on its own to derail her, but together they...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Christianity, Dresses (clothing)
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Carlos Reygadas' films search for authenticity beyond reality
Two or three years ago, if you asked the so-called Three Amigos -- Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu -- to name the most promising young contemporary Mexican director, their voices would unite in praise of Carlos Reygadas....Tags: Movies, Guillermo Del Toro, Entertainment, Christianity, Mexico City
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Loving the big empty of Manitoba
Times Staff WriterEVEN though we had called ahead, they just weren't expecting us in Winnipeg. At the airport, the Canadian customs officer couldn't believe the city was our destination. "Oh, right," she said in a can't-fool-me tone, "You're just going to hang around...Tags: Taj Mahal, Arts and Culture, Family, Christianity, Trips and Vacations
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Fertile imagination in Iowa
Times Staff WriterOn a sunny Sunday in June, I found myself at the Field of Dreams, watching as the pinstripe-clad Ghost Players baseball team appeared out of a cornfield. Wearing 1919 Chicago White Sox uniforms, they emerged from the corn just as the ghost team did in...Tags: Maytag Corp., Death, Sausages, Chicago White Sox, Colleges and Universities
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