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Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future Supreme Court justice, judge alito when he was at the u. S. Court of appeals...

SOMERVILLE -- Students from Malden Catholic High School and Xaverian Brothers High School were among eight high school graduates who received the Henry David Thoreau Foundation Scholarship this year.

Arlington High School student wins Thoreau Scholarship COURTESY OF THE HENRY DAVID THOREAU FOUNDATION Liam Nokes, a student at Arlington High School, will be entering college this autumn as a Thoreau Scholar. The scholarship, named for the 19th-century naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau, is a prestigious award given annually to only eight Massachusetts high school seniors. The son of Nuria Gine-Nokes and Keith Nokes, Liam credits his interest in the environment to his grandfather Evarist, who taught him about mushrooms. Growing up in Catalonia in Francoist Spain, Evarist hunted mushroo...