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    Aug 14, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  1. Hoover named to PGC board

    It's official. Southeastern Pennsylvania has a new member on the board of game commissioners for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Brian H. Hoover of Glenolden, Delaware County, will represent District 6, which includes Lehigh and Northampton counties,...

    Tags: Wildlife, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Game, Walnutport

    2. Feb 6, 2012 |Column| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  2. Animal art gets a boost from Nature

    Most American wildlife artists don't think twice when it comes to taking the super-realistic path pioneered so spectacularly by the great John James Audubon in the early 1800s.
    Most American wildlife artists don't think twice when it comes to taking the super-realistic path pioneered so spectacularly by the great John James Audubon in the early 1800s. No one had ever seen anything like his closely observed, disarmingly lifelike...

    Tags: Entertainment, Animals, Arts and Culture, Music, Arts

    3. Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  3. A natural history that almost wasn't: 'America's Other Audubon'

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    As a little girl in Ohio in the mid-1800s, Genevieve "Gennie" Jones would accompany her country doctor father in his buggy as he visited patients. Along the way they'd discuss the natural world, which turned into a lifelong passion. Then......
    4. Jan 6, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Got $10 million? The world's most expensive book could be yours

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    A first edition of the book "The Birds of America" by John James Audubon will be auctioned later this month by Christie's; in 2010, a copy of it sold for $11.5 million....
    5. Aug 15, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Edward Hopper painting to become U.S. postage stamp

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    New U.S. postage stamp inspired by Edward Hopper painting...
    6. May 17, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  6. LETTER: Why Landscape Butchery Along Highways?

    For months now, I have watched the edges of roads and highways become more and more depleted of the beautiful trees that line them. While I understand that, in some cases, branches hanging too low over roads or select old trees perhaps leaning too...

    Tags: Earth Day, Middletown

    7. Apr 9, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Field has mulled selling artifacts

    When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection.
    When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....

    Tags: Science, Zoology, Values, Economy, Business and Finance, Arts and Culture

    8. Apr 23, 2013 |Story| AM News

  8. News briefs for April 23

    <strong>&lsquo;Audubon In Kentucky&rsquo; talk set at library</strong>
    ‘Audubon In Kentucky’ talk set at library Friends of the Library continue its spring program series at 4 p.m. Wednesday with Sarah Vahlkamp’s presentation, “Audubon in Kentucky.” The program will be held in the Community...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Libraries

    9. Mar 22, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  9. Travel Postcard: 48 hours in the Florida Keys

    KEY WEST, Fla (Reuters) - The Florida Keys are the end of the road, where the legendary U.S. Route 1 stops for the ocean at mile zero, a classic American road trip.
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    KEY WEST, Fla (Reuters) - The Florida Keys are the end of the road, where the legendary U.S. Route 1 stops for the ocean at mile zero, a classic American road trip. For many, it did end here, a place where ships crashed and wreckers saved sailors and...

    Tags: Entertainment, Key Largo, Bill Clinton, Islamorada, Arts and Culture

    10. Nov 11, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. 10 things you might not know about Abraham Lincoln

    Steven Spielberg's film about a long-limbed, inspirational figure is finally coming to theaters. No, it's not a re-issue of "E.T." It's "Lincoln," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Here are 10 facts about "Honest Abe":
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    Steven Spielberg's film about a long-limbed, inspirational figure is finally coming to theaters. No, it's not a re-issue of "E.T." It's "Lincoln," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Here are 10 facts about "Honest Abe": 1 Lincoln detested the nickname Abe, and...

    Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture, Africa, Illinois Wesleyan University

    11. May 21, 2011 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  11. With so much to do, it's good that time moves slowly in Key West

    Time somehow moves more slowly in Key West.
    Time somehow moves more slowly in Key West. It all starts with the final approach. Heading south from the congested traffic and urban sprawl of Miami, the speed limit is a leisurely 45 mph on U.S. Highway 1 from Florida City, where mainland Florida...

    Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Arts and Culture, Jimmy Buffett, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Transportation

    12. Aug 17, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. The beauty — and sorrow — of an empty nest

    The lithographs in Joy M. Kiser's "America's <em>Other</em> Audubon" are works of great beauty and scientific accuracy. But behind them is a tragedy &mdash; the story of a hugely ambitious undertaking begun in heartbreak and completed in grief.
    The lithographs in Joy M. Kiser's "America's Other Audubon" are works of great beauty and scientific accuracy. But behind them is a tragedy — the story of a hugely ambitious undertaking begun in heartbreak and completed in grief. The art book...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Smithsonian Institution

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