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Hello, friends --
3 gardens are in the most danger of eviction. If you came to the Critical
Mass ride last May to the Bronx, you saw them. They were in bloom, filled
with
life both green
Subj: Won one for the So Bronx! come celebrate with us, Thanksgiving AND
Sunday
Date: 11/24/04 8:43:45 PM Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
From: Jkthecat666
hey y'all (as Aresh would say),
the 3 Bronx community gardens have gotten a temporary restraining order vs.
the city, and
Subj: [tb-cyberpark]: [MG] Bulldozers held off 3 South Bronx Community
Gardens, Court Date Dec 1st!
Date: 11/24/04 8:17:41 PM Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
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News from the tb-cyberpark
Friends,
This looks great, and perhaps garden organizations may want to acquire copies
of it to show members and funders.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
11/18/2004
Community Gardens of Chester County featured in documentary
By Bryan G. Robinson
Now the
CRD may ban pesticides
By Don Descoteau
Oak Bay News
In much the same way that the Capital Regional District's (CRD) watering
restrictions bylaw is adhered to, refusing to use pesticides for lawn and
garden
maintenance remains a personal choice for many.
City of Victoria Councillor
Blue grama, blue corn growing at Arboretum
Patrick Pynes
Master Gardener
11/27/2004
Season's greetings from The Arboretum at Flagstaff. We hope that you had a
fine Thanksgiving, with plenty of good things to eat, and plenty to be thankful
for in 2004. We hope to see you here at The ARB next
Friends,
A personal note, before agit-prop(aganda) today. lol
I hope Thanksgiving was grand for you all. I spent mine with my son and
friends - the first of a quarter century without my late wife, Allegra,
grateful
for my son, friends, and a meal - especially now, when funding for food
security
Friends,
I though this might be useful for folks who garden with Hmong refugees and
sometimes forget why they're here
I shared this with some of my compadres in the Bronx who say this has been
helpful.
Everbest,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
Clinton Community Garden
Monday, November
Friends:
The key paragraph and opportunity is at the end of the article: One scenario
would have the board sell the deed-restricted farm at an auction. Another
would bring a farm stand featuring local products. Officials have also
discussed
a community-gardening center or some other form of
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Go to the ACGA archive at mallorn computing -
ACGA Listserve
Go to the search page: http://www.hort.net/lists/community_garden/search.cgi
and punch in raised beds - you'll find discussions on this year by year. Also
there's a page on accessible gardnening on the ACGA website as well:
Lauren,
Good luck! You contacted the listserv of the American Community Gardening
Association (ACGA), the voice of 10,000 community gardens throughout the
United States and Canada.
A definition: A community garden is a public garden created by some members
of a community for the use and
No kids, Adam Purple ain't me, and I certainly ain't Adam Purple, but we have
co-existed in the same worlds, and gardened in Lower East Side spaces that were
left from the the great Real Estate arson and disinvestment fete of the late
1960's -1970's.
In those day gardens were an ephemeral
Friends,
Go figure - I like to deal with potential problems before they become
problems. And while I can posit suggestions, there ARE wiser heads than mine.
And I
figure if I cast this problem on the waters, so to speak, we might come up
with a solution and perhaps some action.
So here
Friends,
I sit on Manhattan Community Board 4's Land Use and Zoning Committee. The first
item on our agenda at John Jay College committee meeting will be Clinton Green
Project construction issues on their sitein the West 50's. The committee will
be listening to how the developer is
Susan,
Here are the weblinks to NC Community Gardens from the ACGA Website:
http://www.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/Departments/LUESA/Solid+Waste/PLANT+Program/Community+Gardens.htm
http://www.mccollcenter.org/nav.cfm?cat=15subcat=77subsub=44
In a message dated 11/7/05 6:42:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Subj: Re: [cg] An African American First, Toadstools/Mushrooms Insurance
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Friends,
The hands-down, un-contested world champion in the negotiation of
conservation, historical , public space AND community gardens via purchase,
conservation
easements, restrictive covenants and other legal slights of hands is The Trust
for Public Land.
Please search through the TPL
Thanks for starting me on this web search - there are some lovely things
Presbyterians are doing with community gardens, Community Supported Agriculture
and food security:
http://www.pcusa.org/hunger/food/stories.htm
http://www.wfn.org/2002/05/msg00132.html
Here are a few Presbyterian
FYI
-Original Message-
From: DLogg60798
Sent: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:49:07 -0500
Subject: Liz Christy honored
THE DEDICATION
On October 15, 2005, Artmakers dedicated When Women Pursue Justice, its 3,300
square foot mural that celebrates 90 women who, often risking life and
liberty, have
Dear Paid, or on Spec Film Project Coordinator,
Friend - This enquiring, long-time (30 years plus) organic community
gardener has a few questions, and would be quite interested in getting answers
-
please - before answering your query.
This listserv gets lots of offers all the time - so
Anna,
Please sign me on to the researcher's list serve.
Suggestion: In addition to scholarly research, we should also have a central
file of non-specialist articles and editorials on community gardens, pro and
con (from NYC the August 2001 Daily News Editorial Garden Weasels as a
negative,
Dear ACGA Friends,
One of the good things about the recent NY Community Garden settlement is the
preservation status of La Plaza Cultural on 9th Ave. and Avenue C in
Manhattan.
A HREF=http://www.laplazacultural.org/main.html;Viva ! La Plaza Cultural
!!/A
A cultural as well as a
Friends,
You've been doing great stuff in your gardens all spring and summer. Did you
do something interesting with kids, change your composting program, deal with
a perplexing issue in a new way?
If some of you are growing vegetables for food banks, schools or seniors or
have a new grape
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just very quick, let me tell you that the Greyston Community Garden
was very busy this garden season. In partnership with the
Technology computer center, we develop a summer camp called
Enviro-tech, we used a convination of environmental issues and
tecnology and created
Friends,
I wish I knew less about the WTC, in my town, it's like the large gorilla in
the corner that nobody really wants to talk about anymore, but still really
dominiates much of our public discourse. Sometimes, because the media didn't
choose to cover the right things, public
Friends,
This is from the Newspaper of Record, the NY Times, on the losers in the
community garden settlement. As elegaic pieces go, it ain't bad and I'm glad
it actually got past the paper's City Editor. This, along with some good
pieces by Anne Raver, were the only real mainstream
As an old restaurant union member and shop steward (Hotel Restaurant
Employees and Bartender's International Union NY Locals 1, 69, 6 and finally
100) I oppose any kind of scab or unfree labor. Trying to clothe myself and
my family in non-sweatshop goods (bless the Union Label when we find
Jim,
I read this your story (with my first cup of coffee, thank you) before a day
filled with meetings. It is impossible to create a community garden without
grassroots community support propelling it forward.
You story is classic, a prime example of how a Mother (or Father) Bountiful
gets
In a message dated 10/27/02 8:42:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, Adam36055
writes:
We received a query from a member of your garden group about a month ago.
You may want to go into the archives of this ACGA listserve at A
HREF=http://www.hort.net/lists/community_garden/;community_garden
In a message dated 10/2/03 12:28:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Subj: [cg] developing a private garden for public use
Date: 10/2/03 12:28:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Friend,
Thank you for sharing this very interesting with this listserve. To have an
idea of what American Community Gardening Association members do, and how our
gardens are organized throughout the US and Canada, please go to our website
and read some: A
Friends,
When interesting events like the California Gubenatorial election occur, the
first question community gardeners should ask (after picking themselves off
the floor, in either glee or shock) is, Is this good for community gardeners?
My feeling is that the volunteer energy, work by
hehe
Friends,
I received this from Sharon Gordon who had the Austriona community gardening
association address in her Roladex.
Bless her!
Adam Honigman
Subj: [cg] Austrian community garden association address/Zentralverba nd
der Kleingärtner, Siedler und Kleintierzüchter Österreichs
Date:
Sorry guys, I'm getting a kick out of this. No more on Arnold, I promise.
This piece by Henry Stern, the clown prince of NYC municipal government and
former Parks Commissioner is worth reading - as in Shakespeare, the clown is
often the wisest of all of the fools.
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
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Subj: CYBERGARDENS: Francoise
Date: 10/15/03 3:49:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Brian,
The Canadian standards, in all frankness, are better than the US's because
their process is more honest and less politically manipulated. While not
perfect, I would accept Canadian national standards for heavy metals, etc, as
being
a good guideline for community gardeners.
That
Alan,
I don't know Mr. Ableman personally, though I've read his stuff and admire
what he's done in terms of urban and sustainable agriculture. You might want
to
start with this link, and see if he's in their rolodex:
A HREF=http://www.bioneers.org/newsletter/urban_farming.html;Bioneers/A
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Subj: Re: [cg] Does Any One have contact info for Michael Ableman?
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I agree - the soil testing done by UMass Amherst is probably the most
affordable in the USA and Canada, unless your local Ag Extension is doing it
for
free.
We used UMass Amherst for the Clinton Community Garden, and their work is
really impeccable. Many community gardeners from all over
Friends,
This was forwarded to me by David Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space
Coalition - a NYC based coaltion of open space, greenway and community garden
advocates. A sweet thought for a cool Wednesday afternoon:
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
A
Friends,
This was forwarded to me by David Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space
Coalition - a NYC based coaltion of open space, greenway and community garden
advocates. A sweet thought for a cool Wednesday afternoon:
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Volunteer,
A
Friends,
Every time the commerical for Archer Daniel Midlands comes on after the
McNeil Lehrer News Hour on PBS, my wife hisses. Allegra is not a big
anti-corporate basher, as a nurse she's too busy for that, but she has it in
personal for
Archer Daniel Midlands for making corn syrup so
Try this Cuban source for starters- and as you're Canadian, I'm sure that
reaching out to the embassy might get you some remarkable results.
A HREF=http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/Guillese/Proyecto.htm;Cuban
Composting/A
From Jane Weissman, former Green Thumb NYC director
Subj: CYBERGARDENS: Amos Taylor
Date: 10/29/03 10:43:37 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Update: Bulldozer Allert - Come and help the South Bronx's Senior Citizen
Community garden
A HREF=moregardens.orgmoregardens.org(more info)/A
Last Wed the 23rd October, a grey official
Thought you might find this of interest - Green Guerillas is a famous cg
group here in NYC.
A HREF=http://www.greenguerillas.org/updates-item.asp?ID=3D102=20;GG
Proposal/A
Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Subj: (Public.Spaces) Green Guerillas WTC Proposal
Date: 10/29/03 1:15:55 PM Eastern
Friends,
Early this week, as I was trimming some of the dahlias in the Clinton
Community Garden in NYC, and doing some general maintenance, a lady whom I had
never
met before walked into our garden with her two small kids
I was wearing my Mets hat, as usual ( a wool 59 - a gift from my
Friends,
Mike Steffens is a NYC fireman/EMS, helps grow trees in Brooklyn.In case you
thought they grew by themselves - nope, trees don't grow on trees in NYC,
they need help from volunteers like Mike who helps run a volunteer nursery out
next to the Floyd Bennett Field Community Garden and
Somerville Journal - Somerville,MA,United States
Report: Capuano soil safe for gardening
By Auditi Guha/ Journal Staff
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Soil samples of the community gardens around the Capuano School indicate low
lead levels, and experts say it is safe to garden there, even if
Friends,
This is the augean stable that I had to stay home and help clean instead of
showing up at the ACGA conference. Trust me, it would have been much more fun
to be in Toronto, which from every indicator, was a big success. You lucky
dogs!
NYC wants to give us massive development in a
Friends,
Community gardening is 50 percent gardening and 100 percent community
activism and political action.
This is a Manhattan Community Board 4 letter to Amanda Burden, the
Commissioner of NYC Planning on a proposed development in the Clinton Urban
Renewal
Area which includes
Garden's harvest plentiful
By CHRISTINA SMITH
DES MOINES, IA REGISTER STAFF WRITER
October 8, 2004
--
--
With the help of donors and more than 400 volunteers, the Garden of Eden
project on Des Moines' south side has
RE: Is there a community Garden started in Miami Florida?
Mariah Martin ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dear Mariah,
I don't know, if there are any Miami Florida Community gardens, but if there
are a good contact should be be Adrian Hunsberger, Urban Horticulture
Extension Agent, Miami-Dade
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Hi.
There is
CITYWIDE
These candidates are down-to-earth
Gardeners unite, create new council
By Jason Nielsen, Boston Globe Correspondent | October 17, 2004
How will your garden grow?
It's a question that Boston Community Garden Council candidates like Pat
Grady, 65, of Mission Hill, were asking their
Flowers, friends, fun
Project aims to beautify city spots.
Donna Jackel
Staff writer
It may have felt like the first nip of winter Saturday, but people from all
over Rochester were busy planning ahead for spring.
It was the eighth annual Rochester Blooms!, a one-day beautification event in
TEAM EFFORT GROWS IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN
TWO groups have recently benefited from a visit to Groundwork Flintshire and
Wrexham's kitchen garden.
As part of Roots for Healthy Hearts, Morgan Llwyd's alternative curriculum
class has visited the Erlas walled kitchen garden.
The children have a
The Sun Powers City Garden
Couple pioneers solar use in East Village green space - Gay City News.
By MELANIE WALLIS
Environmentally friendly East Village gardeners have just completed building
a solar-powered waterfall, and hope to extend the garden's sun-powered
capabilities to lighting,
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Oh ... the apple of my eye ...
Jason Cox | Leader File Photos | Shots from harvest at Reisinger's Apple
Country in Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Staff and wire reports
So far, Anne Kregness has made and canned 24 quarts of applesauce. She's got
five bags of apple slices in
FYI -
From a gardener visiting a lower east side garden. The complete message is
attached,so you can see that you can't make this stuff up
We walked a few blocks to 6th and AVE. B. I was so
excited when I saw the eclectic tower and realized
this was a garden I'd read about in People
C'mon...
We all have insurance problems in our NYC gardens.
But if you keep your garden safe and tidy, and don't leave crap all over the
place for people to trip over, and think of yourselves as a public venue,
one that's open more than 10 hours a week, for a neighborhood that's open
Re: Besides getting lots of warm bodies to the next city council meeting and
sending around a petition, any other suggestions for effectively fighting
the increase? Success stories? Strategies?
Part of the best way to get community support for your garden is to get the
story out about the good
Grant writing.
Sorry kiddo, I don't write grants for other groups - mostly lack of time, but
learning how to fish is a great thing to learn to do, a necessary skill for any
non-for profit organization.
First you search the web for organizations that provide grants in your area for
parks,
I'm glad I managed to get a rise out of you on this accessibilty issue, Bill.
I ain't the only keeper of the garden -we have 4,999 + others too. :)
I know, as a community gardener who has visited 6B on days when gardeners are
inside and the gates are locked, to come in and be told, when the
Grant writing is an amusing skill - Great examples exist in Michaelangelo's
letters to Pope Julius, A great one in Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography,
and Leonardo's letters to the Medici, King Louis of France, etc.
But more appropos as a quick grantwriting guide, deliverable by Fedex from
This was addressed to me, and the first paragraph don't apply, but the
second paragraph about the personal in fund raising is gold.
Case in point - Mrs.Vincent (Brooke) Astor who is now 101, is a great dame
who married money and gave away millions, with class and a great deal of
intelligence
Friends,
In the midst of a rather warm discussion on garden accessibility issues
carried on the American Community Gardening listserve, Mr. William
Hohauser,Pres
of NYC's 6B Community garden, shared this piece of intelligence:
Mr. Hohauser stated that after August 2006, there will be no
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Great garden, this.
http://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/laguardia_place_community_garden
http://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/laguardia_place_community_garden
Subj: [cg] NYC visit
Date: 10/10/05 9:44:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Friends,
Green Thumb and many public community gardening programs are funded by Federal
Community Block Grants.
In other words, without its Federal Community Development Block Grant, Green
Thumb could lose its $5,000,000 or so of funding. Green Thumb has never been
funded by the City of
Another note on the garden insurance crisis.
Maureen O'Boyle - we may have to set up a working group on insurance for the
community gardens. More later as we learn more and find insurance carriers who
will cover us.
Adam Honigman
Volunteer
Clinton Community Garden
-Original
Maureen,
While folks often respond privately to e-mails emanating from the listserv, -
because this is such a sheer, what, no insurance? the sky is falling, type
crisis, I've gone public, in my usual tactless fashion, to get as much
information to as many people in need of it as possible.
Subj: [cg] NYC Gardens Insurance Update - IMPORTANT!
Date: 10/11/05 9:15:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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I had a phone meeting with Jack Linn from NYC Parks today. Good news
to be shared.
- First of all, the
Friends,
If you're in town, and want to venture up to midtown,get a little dirty, meet
some visiting gardeners from St. Louus, throw some fresh herbs on your
mid-day pizza and beer and maybe get filmed by a Japanese video crew (it's
some
kind of ecology show, been trying to explain that
This is Adam Honigman speaking as an individual community gardener.
I must say that I am delighted that the NYC Community Gardening fraternity
has finally been informed by Ms. Stone, Director of Green Thumb, about our new
insurance status.
However, the period between when Ms. Stone knew
Here's whatcha should do:
1) Go to CB 2 and get copies of the older letters of support that the board has
written in support of La Guardia Corner Garden. You want letters from them on
their stationery.
2) Go to the local citycouncilperson, state assembly person,state senator and
your
Friends,
On Fall Spring Clean Ups.
We don't do tilling at the CCG like you guys do.
Mind you, the third of an acre space that the Clinton Community Garden is sited
on is alot tinier than what many of you are gardening on, and add the fact that
the lion's share of the garden's area is
Here's my idea - you present the gardens as citizen run public space, i.e.,
parks/gardens/physical recreation/food security centers run on city land in the
same way that volunteer firemen run volunteer fire houses.
You have documentation of all the good things you've done/do, with letters of
Friends,
Unlike many of the really nice urban gardening books cranked out by
journalists, garden writers and folks who have never put in a single volunteer
gardening hour, Garden Your City, by Barbara Hoben Feldt is the real thing -
a well written book on urban gardening, and gardening in
Dan Loggins goes back to the early CG days, with Liz Christy, on the committee
there now. He likes the book too.
Adam Honigman
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At 51, I remember what it's like to have been a 16 year old punk. When you
have a fence up, it keeps folks with poor impulse control from trashing your
garden on an impulse. Teenaged males and growing pumpkins in a patch when said
teeners are filled with Ballantine's Ale ( still a favorite of
Friends,
In a more traditional society, where kids are raised to call all adults Mr.
or Mrs., to rise when adults come in the room and to give up their seats on the
buses to any older person, where the woodshed is in regular use, where people
leave their front doors and cars unlocked, where
Yes, yes and yes.
For an example of key garden access, please go to
http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org
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Neither of the two
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I recommend a combination lock. There are locks
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I agree with Bill Hohauser - the population density of NYC, and the fact that
while we're no eviller than the general run of folks, a good eight foot high
fence has saved the Clinton Community Garden for its 5,000 plus keyholders,
given its public gardeners the understanding that the attractive
Good morning,
Sit down and have a cup of coffee.
Here's the story. This is what I gleaned from a telephone conversation last
night with Jack Linn, the NYC Parks Commissioner who is Edie Stone's (the
current Green Thumb Director) boss. I like Jack, he's a Park
professional,who's been
Nope - No blame for the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, only praise.
NOSC was doing Parks and all of us gardeners a BIG FAVOR by carrying our
community garden insurance, especially as community gardens are not their core
mission.
And in all frankness, most of the community gardens and
Friends,
This afternoon I resigned as a member of the Clinton Community Garden's
steering committee.
My fellow steering committee members, good friends all, do not share my
strong, personal disapproval of the current policies and direction of the NYC
Parks
Green Thumb program. The value
Andrew,
You should go to the ACGA website, A
HREF=http://www.communitygarden.org/;American Community Gardening
Association/A , and the world famous City Farmer site,
A HREF=http://www.cityfarmer.org/;Click here: City Farmer's Urban
Agriculture Notes/A for international contacts.
You may
On the Value of a Community Garden
Yesterday, Tuesday September 10th, began in our apartment with the usual
quotidian ablutions, chores - the process that propels my wife and me to our
workdays. Since the same time last year, our routine now includes an e-mail
to our son, a freshman at an
Tierra Libertad, David? ;)
Outside of contacting the Mexico City Parks Dept. and the Mexican Dept. of
Agriculture on what may or may not have appeared in an ad hoc fashion in
Mexico city, this cut and paste from the magnificent Canadian Urban Farmer
website has some interesting places to
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Chromated Copper Arsenate is the stuff used to preserve wood. As you know
copper turns green when exposed to the elements; thus you see people's decks,
etc. with a green hue to them. This is the CCA
Friends,
This is the New Yorkers for Parks take on the community garden settlement.
Unfortunately, it's right on target. We have much work to do, yet, and
again, thank you for all of your support:
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News from the
Friends,
Right now I'm sitting at home, paying bills before I head down to the Clinton
Community Garden for our Hell's KitchenHeroes Picnic ( we're honoring our
local firemen, cops EMS today - everyone else has to bring some food and/or
a six-pack of a beverage.)
After being at this
Friend,
Outside of the heart-warming bottles of New South Wales Shiraz that a
gardener brought to our Hell's Kitchen Heroes Picnic ( honoring our
neighborhood's firemen, cops and emegency medical service ambulance personnel
last weekend) my knowledge of soil and plant conditions in Australia
Tamsin,
I too always feel up after I've left the garden - even if I've had to
explain, for the thousanth time to one of the local parents that our no
urinating in the garden rule applies to their children too ( and is posted
in English, Spanish and Arabic next to the front gate!)
When
Subj: National Geographic Two Page Portland Community Garden Photo - 09/03
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Friends,
As I don't travel much these days, and try to avoid the television as much as
I can, much of what I learn about the world outside of Manhattan Island is
gleaned from print and the Internet. For
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