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• Nostalgic toys set to work magic again

  - 2008-11-25

  NEW YORK -- Counting dollars this holiday season, Tom De Santes wants to avoid buying high-priced techno gadgets as gifts for his two sons. Instead, he is going to buy the boys, ages 6 and 7, a classic from his own childhood: Lincoln Logs. ...

• Alta Log Homes Receives LEED for Homes Certificate

  - 2007-11-08

  Alta Log Homes First Log Home in the U.S. to Receive Coveted Certificate from U.S. Green Building Council HALCOTTSVILLE, N.Y. -- Alta Log Homes, a leading builder of "green" log homes for over 35 years has gone one shade greener with its elegant Greenbriar model, which has received...

• TWO LOCAL TEAMS REVVING UP FOR SOAPBOX RACE

  - 2007-09-23

  Excuse Tom Valentine's wife if she thinks her husband's life is in the toilet this week. Actually, it is. Valentine will be sitting in a soapbox racer shaped like a giant toilet Saturday at the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Seattle. ...

• Toast 'Sopranos' finale with Italian-American fare

  - 2007-06-06

  AMERICA'S favorite crime family, the Sopranos, is finally singing its swan song. When the last episode airs on Sunday, fans of the show will gather around the tube, waiting to see who will get whacked. In true Italian-American style, it seems fitting to share one last...

• Lincoln logs diversity: festival lineup includes Kabuki classics.(Lincoln Center Festival)(Brief article)

  - 2007-03-07

  Helmer Robert Wilson's version of La Fontaine's fables, a one-man "King Lear" from Taiwan, two Kabuki classics and four Spanish-language productions are among the theater offerings at this year's Lincoln Center Festival. Annual fest, running July 10-29, also includes music, dance and...

• Cobuying a Home

  - 2007-02-06

  What you learned in kindergarten about sharing could help in your quest for a home. But this time around, rather than sharing your Lincoln Logs, you'll be sharing your home, with a cobuyer. Once the domain of married or committed couples, more and more homebuyers are discovering the...

• American toys and games

  - 2006-07-01

  When European families first settled in the New World, among the things they brought with them were toys. These were a source of comfort and distraction for the children, and a commodity to present as gifts to the locals. The toy industry as we would recognize it today...

• Classic toys made over in candy.(Christmas Profit Preview: Part 2)

  - 2006-05-01

  Stylus introduces four classic toys made with candy. Barrel of Monkeys features a plastic barrel filled with cherry gummi monkeys. Lincoln Logs are candy logs that can be used to build cabins, while Connect Four includes candy checkers playing pieces. ...

• The Achievers.(Movie review)

  - 2006-04-10

  A Lincoln Log production. Produced by Christian Harrison, Troy Hauschild, Abraham Lim. Directed, edited by Abraham Lira. Screenplay, Lim, Michael Golamco, based on the stage play "Achievers" by Golamco. Camera (color, HDcam), Lim; music, Gabrial McNair; music supervisor, Tim Hugh; ...

• Mystery picture puzzle.

  - 2006-04-01

  ball ping pong paddle football boomerang swim fin canoe lincoln log balloon ...

• Caption only: High hopes for Habitat

  - 2006-03-15

  UVSC students Jeff Sorensen, left, Briant Frye and Skippy Jessop race to see who can build the tallest free-standing Lincoln Log structure in one minute as part of Tuesday's UVSC kickoff fund- raiser for a Habitat for Humanity home. The three-bedroom, two- bathroom home will be constructed by UVSC in...

• Lincoln logs 'Druid' bow.(LEGIT BITS)('DruidSynge' on Lincoln Center Festival)(Brief article)

  - 2006-03-02

  "DruidSynge," the complete works of J.M. Synge ("The Playboy of the Western World") staged by Garry Hynes ("The Beauty Queen of Leenane"), kicks off the Lincoln Center Festival on July 10. The Druid Theater's daylong marathon, with an ensemble including Marie...

• Mark Schnuck: Developing a New Market

  - 2006-03-01

  When your family business is the tenth largest privately-owned grocery store chain in the United States, the odds are pretty good that your future ties in supermarkets. But if you're also the fourth out of six kids, you need to find your own special niche, if you want to make...

• Toy trivia

  - 2005-12-02

  -- A woman named Lizzie Maggie had the original idea for Monopoly, yet died penniless, while the "inventor," who took Maggie's idea to Parker Brothers, retired a multimillionaire. -- Play-Doh was first produced as a commercial wallpaper cleaner. -- Silly Putty was developed as...

• Couple of corrections.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)

  - 2005-12-01

  I look forward to every issue of Rider, so seeing my article Lincoln Log in the October issue was a real thrill. Your art staff and Bill Tipton did a fabulous job with layout and artwork. I do need to make a couple of...

• Most kids do their best thinking inside the box

  - 2005-11-30

  Anyone who has ever been a kid knows the best gift of all is the box it came in. Any big box, for that matter. The folks at the Strong Museum in Rochester, N.Y., finally figured that out and have given the cardboard box an honored place in...

• Do your holiday shopping in Europe's Christmas markets.(Going Places)(Seniors)

  - 2005-11-13

  Byline: John Hilferty Daily Herald Correspondent Tinker Toys and Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs and Lionel trains. Kewpie dolls and Betsy Wetsy, who, you might remember, "cried real tears." Ah, the Christmas toys of childhoods past. They hardly compare with...

• Lincoln log: day-tripping on the Father Road.

  - 2005-10-01

  Early in the last century, one highway paved the way--literally and figuratively--for the roads we enjoy today. More patchwork quilt than a continuous ribbon, it was stitched together from existing roads to create a route from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San...

• Clarifying Lincoln's roots.(Letter to the Editor)

  - 2005-06-22

  I recently received the Spring 2005 issue of National Parks and, as usual, enjoyed its articles and photographs. I was struck, however, by the photograph of Abraham Lincoln's home on page 12. As a student of Lincoln-related buildings, I feel obligated to note that the photograph...

• Outsmarting locked phones and other old newspaper memories

  - 2005-06-03

  Dettlebach, CynthiaCleveland Jewish News06-03-2005By taxi, car and subway they came. To the unfamiliar Turkish restaurant onConey Island Avenue, mere blocks away from the high school they hadattended half a century before.Most had rarely, if ever, been back to Brooklyn since college or graduateschool. Many live up and down the East...

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