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West Volusia Calendar of Events: April 27-May 4, 2013
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4/26/2013 6:34:18 PM
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Saturday, April 27 The Grand 5K’ Walk/Run and Community Expo 6:30 a.m. registration, with 8 a.m. start, at the Duvall Home, 3395 Grand Ave., Glenwood. Event begins and ends at the Duvall Home. Runners or walkers will use the northern portion of Volusia County’s Spring to Spring Trail along Gran ...
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Arts Around Town: Reading Public Museum to host traveling exhibit of Civil War art by Mort Kunstler
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4/25/2013 3:03:23 PM
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Mort Kunstler has a way of making people interested in American history – specifically, the Civil War. His work does not depict battle scenes but rather human interest stories with an emphasis on the Battle of Gettysburg from 1861 to 1865. For three decades, his brush has served as the narrator of his accurate wartime storytelling. The public will have an opportunity to meet our country’s most ...
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A guide to exploring Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn
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4/23/2013 1:17:08 PM
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Some of the sites in Brooklyn associated with Jackie Robinson are his gravesite in Cypress Hills Cemetery; a house where he once lived; the former site of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ ballpark, Ebbets Field (also shown in a July 1954 aerial view), which was torn down after the Dodgers moved to L.A. in 1957 and today is an apartment complex; and a statue of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson at MCU Park ...
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West Volusia Calendar: April 20-27, 2013
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4/19/2013 6:34:25 PM
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Saturday, April 20 Barberville Family Farm Swap and Market 6 a.m.-12:30 p.m. west of the Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts, three-fourths of a mile west of U.S. Highway 17, on State Road 40, Barberville. Call 386-469-9409. St. Johns River Cleanup 8-11 a.m. at sites at Ninemile Point Park, a ...
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History of Cherokee War is top notch
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4/17/2013 2:22:25 PM
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We Americans sometimes forget how new we are to the history of the world. Here in Western North Carolina, for example, we live like other Americans.
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Changes, but a legacy remains
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4/14/2013 8:48:01 AM
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NEW YORK - With the movie "42" bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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A tour of Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn
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4/12/2013 10:21:25 AM
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With the movie "42" bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn: A guide to exploring his past
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4/12/2013 1:28:33 PM
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With the movie "42" bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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Senior Scene
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4/12/2013 4:06:01 AM
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In an effort to meet the needs of seniors, “Senior Scene” includes news items of interest to senior citizens as well as important information about senior centers and Councils on Aging within each of the communities in our region. An abridged...
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Civil War 150 Schedule of Events
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4/9/2013 7:13:15 PM
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(Subject to change) April 20 : At WV Independence Hall: 1 p.m. - “President Lincoln: Life and Legacy Through Dance” An interpretive dance program presented by the Allegro Dance Company to commemorate the life and achievements of Abraham Lincoln. This performance includes three interpretive dance pieces set to music that consist of Mary Todd Lincoln’s reflections, emancipation and the ...
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Stratford Hall alive with history
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4/7/2013 10:16:38 AM
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The Great House, built in the late 1730s by Thomas Lee, is the centerpiece of the 1,900-acre Stratford Hall Plantation. It took about seven years to build the home out of tulip poplars from the property and bricks from local clay fired in kilns dug in the ground.
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