Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. By Gerald Milnes. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 245. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-577-6.) Gerald Milnes seeks to restore the folkways of German speakers in southern Appalachia to their rightful place for readers already interested in the customs and beliefs...
The future of transportation will be the main topic at the third annual Lane County Energy Round-up, which takes place today at the University of Oregon from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Our Transportation Future: Electrical Vehicles, Local Biofuels, Mass Transit? How Can We Prepare? will feature a...
Dear Heloise: I am a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Southern Maine, and I enjoy reading your column in the Morning Sentinel, which is the newspaper in my hometown of Waterville, Maine. My hint is in regard to brown paper bag lunches. I use these to...
American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. By Susan Freinkel. 2007. University of California Press. (ISBN 978-0-520-24730-7). 294 pp. 1 black and white photo, 1 line drawing, 1 map. Hardcover. $27.50. Available under $19. This book outlines the history of Castanea dentata after the...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Now on the main stage again, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Surely they understand what people are going to say if this one turns out badly. It's not just No.5 Ohio State at No.1 Southern California on Saturday night at the Coliseum. It's the...
Classes at Southern University at New Orleans have been canceled today in anticipation of the threat of Hurricane Gustav. University personnel, however, will continue regular business hours through 5 p.m. today. SUNO will reopen the campus on Thursday, and all university personnel and students should monitor...
It's a long way between Baton Rouge and Vermont in more than one sense: geography, politics, population, winter, accent, culture and culinary habits. But they share this much: Both locales have lost many of their best and brightest young people to bigger cities, and they're looking for ways to...
The "quantitative revolution" in human geography which swept across so many universities in the 1950s and 1960s had its main diffusion centers in a few locations which were to have global significance. Two critical early centers were the University of Washington in the Pacific Northwest and Lund University in southern...
FOLLOWING A PERIOD OF VIOLENT TRAGEDIES AT HIGHER ED INSTITUTIONS, it's easy to forget that public safety directors mainly handle everyday security concerns on and off their campuses. Five security officers share what affects their departments today and what they anticipate in the near future. MEET THE RESPONDENTS...
OPENING THIS WEEK -- Thursday Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery (Braithwaite Liberal Arts Center, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, 435-586-5432) -- "The Tempest: Anatomy of a Production," featuring costumes, props and scenery created by the Shakespearean Festival Properties, through Aug. 30. Saltgrass...
July [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] July 6-9 National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators 2008 NASFAA Conference Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Orlando, Fla. Web: www.nasfaa.org July 23-27 UNITY: Journalists of Color...
Here are some of the biggest potential costs of failing to act against global warming, according to a new study: -- $950 billion in increased water costs, mainly in the Southeast and West, because of increasing drought conditions -- $422 billion in damage in...
TED KERASOTE, author of "Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog," will read from and sign copies of his book, Monday, 7 p.m., The King's English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East. MICHAEL GILLS and JENNIFER SINOR, poets, will read from their work Wednesday, 7 p.m., Salt Lake...
The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement. By Richard M. Valelly. American Politics and Political Economy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c. 2004. Pp. [xviii], 330. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-226-84530-3: cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-84528-1.) The Voting Rights Act, signed into law on August 6, 1965,...
Danny and Life on Bluff Point: The Conflict, Book Six in the Danny and Life on Bluff Point Series Mary Ellen Lee iUniverse, Inc. 2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68512 ISBN 9780595448081, $13.95, 1-800-288-4677, www.iuniverse.com "Danny and...
The West The Railroads Made Carlos A. Schwantes and James P. Ronda University of Washington Press P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, Washington, 98145-5096, USA 9780295987699., $39.95, www.washington.edu/uwpress The innovation of railroads in the early nineteenth century transformed America from a nation...
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