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Kim Fahner’s Emptying the Ocean is a feminist narrative modelled on Irish immram tales traditionally featuring men. Men in immram tales are often expelled from monastic communities for violent acts like rape or murder. Their chance at redemption comes through pilgrimage across the ocean to distant islands, whereas women banished…

100 Years Ago: 1923 A splendid 215 pound buck shot by Clayton Hamilton of Auburn at Lake Costigan is the envy of passersby as it hangs on exhibition at Wells Sporting Goods Store on Court Street in Auburn. 50 Years Ago: 1973 The senate is close to a vote on President Nixon’s nomination of Gerald R. Ford as […]

IN 1822, MASTER Commandant John Porter was second-in-command at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. He had served there since 1820 after arriving from his previous post at the

Gabe Theis looks back at 'The Order', the only horror film Heath Ledger ever starred in and explores if it's worthy of reappraisal.

JOHNNY Johnson was a popular member of the Oxford Mail staff, covering hundreds of stories during a lengthy career as a photographer but he was best…

100 years Ago: 1923 While the road crew in Greene were at work Saturday a large moose crossed the road a short distance in front of them. It was reported that a bear had been reported two or three times in the past week. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Webster and Central Y Teen officers met […]

Edwin Edogbo was on the way to tennis at age 13 when he went to watch his younger brother play minis rugby.

The viaduct in Yarm is one of the great monuments to the unconquerable spirit in which railways were built during the great Victorian mania, and yet…

Excerpts from the Tuesday, November 20, 1956 Paso Robles Journal: Quake rocks Paso area An earthquake jarred the California coastline from Salinas to San Luis […]

A look back in history from past issues of the Lake Country Echo and Echo Journal weekly newspapers