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YORKTOWN — Registration is now open for three January events at the Yorktown Library featuring award-winning authors of mysteries and thrillers.
A Fairfax County, Virginia, mother raised concerns about an assignment that prompted students to analyze an anti-Secondment Amendment persuasive essay sample.
I joke to my friends that my column is the only thing about Cornell that’s never felt like a chore — I’ve never cried about my column, never fought over my column (except with my mom who is fond of censoring my writing before I send it to my editors) and never questioned if it was the right decision for me. Rather, my column has encouraged me to open my eyes to new career opportunities, encouraged me to reflect on the best and worst parts of my Cornell experience and was fun when life wasn’t fun.
John Long is perhaps most famous for claiming the first one-day ascent of the Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, with Jim Bridwell and Billy Westbay, on Memorial Day 1975. But even during his heavily chronicled years as an acid-dropping, free-climbing member of Yosemite Valleyâs âStone Masters,â his primary interest was storytelling. âItâs always been writing,â he told the News&Guide. âI was incidentally a climber.â Although it was impossible to get any writing done during his winters at Camp 4, the notorious Yosemite campground that had been...
In a time when people are taking stock of their tolerance for isolation, one writer participating in Teton County Library's 2021 Mountain Story series will try to shed light on perhaps the ultimate hermit. Author Michael Finkel will hold a Zoom talk at 12:15 p.m. Thursday called âSecrets from the Worldâs Ultimate Social Distancing Masterâ in which he will recount the story of Christopher Knight, who spent 27 years alone in the Maine woods, burglarizing homes for food, fuel and supplies. Finkel said via email that Knight's actions and motivations have âa lot of relevance to...