» The most urgently needed items include colored markers, children?s scissors, girls? backpacks, spiral notebooks and pencil pouches (that snap in a three-ring binder) not boxes.
The annual patriotic art contest of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars is on, with the Rockland chapter soliciting entries from students in grades 9-12. The deadline for submissions in the national contest is March 31. The theme is ?Remember Our Veterans, their families, service and sacrifice.? National winners receive scholarships ranging from $500 to $10,000, and local ...
Walt Whitman -- giant of Americana, author of "Leaves of Grass" and portrayed in voice by Garrison Keillor in Ken Burns' "The Civil War" -- is celebrated today as a champion of individual freedom, the pleasures of the senses and a love of nature. Yet Whitman made a much different mark on our country during the Civil War, as a nurse's aide and hospice caregiver.
