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Best Nonfiction Books of 2025 (so Far)

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There are many “Best Books of 2025 So Far” lists out right now, so I chose some of the top picks to share with you. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (921 Twain) • Amazon’s Best Books of 2025 So Far Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (599.324 Dalton) • New York Times Best of the Year (So Far) • Spotify’s Best Biography & Memoir of the Year So Far There is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (362.592 Goldsto) • New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far) Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston 1777-1780 by ...

GFW school together at last

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It is back to school time for districts across the state, for the Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop (GFW) elementary students, they are not going back but forward into a new building. In April 2023, the GFW school board approved the construction of a K-12 school at 1157 E 13th Street Gibbon. After ...

Cloth dolls more than a toy, a piece of history

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Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the history of workers in America. One of the most interesting periods came during the Great Depression with the Works Progress Administration, later called the Work Projects Administration, from 1935 to 1943. As part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, artists were employed to work on federally funded projects. Some of these projects are pieces by great artists of the 20th century, like photographs by Dorothea Lange, sculptures by Augusta Savage, or murals by Grant Wood. Others, often collected as folk art today, were utilitarian ...

Richard and Sharon Seeboth

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Richard and Sharon Seeboth Richard and Sharon Seeboth celebrate 50th wedding anniversary. The couple married Aug. 23, 1975 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

YEGGS AT COBDEN GET SMALL LOOT

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Entered J. R. Towne & Co. Soft Drink Parlor Through Rear Window, Tuesday Night. ———— $22 TO $57 IN MONEY, FISHING TACKLE TAKEN ———— Leave Small Screw Drivers.- Neighbors Heard Noises Early Wednesday Morning. ———— Burglars entered the soft drink parlor of J. R. Towne & Co. at Cobden, Tuesday night, but secured only small loot for their trouble, according to a statement given Sheriff W. J. Julius of this city, who was called to Cobden to investigate, Wednesday morning. The yeggs gained entrance to the building by means of a rear window, and the ...

Vlaminck brings new styles to vases, canvases

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Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), born in Paris, was one of the painters who exhibited at the 1905 Salon d’Automne, considered the beginning of the Fauvism art movement. The name “Fauvism” came from a critic’s negative reaction to the exhibition, insulting the paintings on display as the work of “wild beasts” (“fauves” in French). Fauvism was characterized by the use of highly saturated color, abstracted shapes, and loose brushwork, a marked departure from the naturalistic, representational styles that dominated the art world at the time. Although de Vlaminck’s fame ...