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• Finding Obama

  - 2009-01-18

  Places that presidents call home often become major tourist attractions, from estates at Mount Vernon and Monticello, to Hodgenville, Ky., where Abe Lincoln's log cabin once stood, to Bill Clinton's boyhood home in Hope, Ark. So what's the equivalent of Barack Obama's log cabin? Probably a 10th-floor...

• 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; ...