THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO By Annette Gordon-ReedBook Review by Alice Hathaway The sub-title of THE HEMINGS OF MONTICELLO is “An American Family.” The first known member of that family was a young African woman who was impregnated while being transported to slavery in America in the 1730’s, She named the daughter she bore Elizabeth
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Agave Blood, Poems by Bill Frayer Reviewed by James Tipton Popular Lakeside author Bill Frayer has just published another fine collection of poetry: Agave Blood. The first, and longest, section, “Mexico,” celebrates Bill’s deepening connection with Mexico and its people and his discovery of the “delicious now,” where he is learning “That my present
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DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE One day a father goes to work, and on his way home he suddenly stops for a doll for his daughter. He walks into a shop and asks the sales person, “How much for one of those Barbies in the display window? “The salesperson answers, “Which one do you mean sir?
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STROLLING THROUGH TIME By Mildred Boyd No one traveling between Chapala and Ajijic recently can have failed to be intrigued by it. Over the last few months, a long, blank stretch of drab concrete retaining wall has begun to come alive with color and movement as Javier Zaragoza performs yet another of his artistic
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The World of Wine By Ceci Rodriguez California Wine The wine industry in California is very young. In 1769, Spanish missionaries founded their first mission on what is now US soil at San Diego. They brought the Mission grape, which, while it does not produce fine wine, can survive in difficult climates and needs
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Kay Davis The MousetrapWritten by Agatha ChristieDirected by Roseann Wilshere Mollie and Giles Ralston have a new hotel, snowed in with five guests. Detective Sergeant Trotter arrives on skis to warn the group that a murderer is on his way to the hotel, following the death of Mrs. Maureen Lyon
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PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART By Gudrun Jones, Co-Founder & President of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Cente Those big brown eyes gazing at you in adoration, the cool, wet nose nudging you to get out of bed in the morning and the never ending wag of the tail that symbolizes the joy of
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Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch Of Christmases Past Even if every Christmas can’t be perfect, I suspect we all treasure a few very special ones. Here are three of my favorites. I was four years old, and my mom worked in one of the wartime factories. We were looking forward to Grandma’s, where
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Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “Why not wake up this very moment?” In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, Island, the protagonist Will Farnaby, after being shipwrecked onto the island of Pala (the home of a Utopian community), falls into a sound sleep only to be awakened a few hours later by a
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Planting for the Future By Judy Baehr New Holiday Traditions I admit that one of the reasons I was eager to move to Mexico was to avoid spending the last two months of the year shopping, decorating, baking, cleaning, polishing, cooking, wrapping, mailing…well, you get the drift. Having come of age in the era
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