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COSHOCTON – Carol Wears grew up wanting to be a schoolteacher. Life took a different path. “My mother died when I was born,” she began, “so my sister and I were raised by our maternal grandparents. Our next-door neighbor was my second-grade teacher, and her husband was the principal, so I always thought I wanted to be a teacher, just like Mrs. Addy.” Wears grew up in West Lafayette and graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1973. “I was in the business program at Ridgewood,” she ...

The Great Gatsby until I was in fourth grade, and even once I knew it was, it didn’t change the way that I saw it. It was already magical, and it’s own world outside of everything else. My family’s home was called “ The Pavilion” and was at the very end of the estate. It used to be the pool house, and was made of mostly windows that rattled and had to be taped up during storms so as not to blow into the dining room. I loved when it stormed because you could hear and see everythin...

7:28 NHPRs Peter Biello speaks with New Hampshire Audubon biologist Pamela Hunt about her new State of the Birds report. Peter Biello: So why is it important to pay attention to the state of New Hampshires birds? Pamela Hunt: A couple of reasons. The ones we usually give are, A, birds are often really good environmental indicators. Theres the overused canary in a coal mine thing. People still understand Silent Spring, the book that launched the DDT ban, additionally. So, you know, things that h...

Gingrich. i started writing it because my boss at the time, roger ames, liked what herman cain stood for, he liked he was an outside man p an outsider, a pizza magnet with this simple economic plan of nine-nine-nine and all of these quips. >> i was just writing nine-nine-nine. >> and he was funny and quippy, so i got the idea for this outsider, larger-than-life presidential candidate who the boss in the book wants to keep having on, so you might have to treat him with ki gloves so he comes back ...