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Area Happenings: Cookout Cruise-In, Swiss Steak dinner, Music on Main and 'Murder at Gatsby Gala'
Community Cookout and Cruise-In Car Show, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, Walnut Hills Retirement Community, 4748 Olde Pump St., Walnut Creek. For more information, call Jodi Dean at 330-893-3200, Ext. 1310. "Murder at Gatsby’s Gala," 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Mariola Italian. Tickets are $50. Join the Wayne County Performing Arts Council at its interactive murder mystery....
'My art will always be in the park': Fairless fifth graders create artwork for park
BETHLEHEM TWP. ‒ Fifth graders at Fairless Elementary School are keeping the history of Navarre alive through art. Art teacher Jenny Best led the students in creating 6-by-11 acrylic paintings to adorn a two-dimensional, 16-foot canal boat at Navarre-Bethlehem Township Park, 8201 Hudson Drive SW. The 93 pictures include...
We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town
It’s disorienting, and also thrilling, when the novel you’ve been writing over the course of several years, a book you know better than anyone, goes out into the world to be compared and categorized. And it’s probably inevitable that if your book is set in a small town and takes on multiple perspectives it will be compared to Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. It’s one of those books I’d always heard of but had no interest in reading. It sounded dull and worn-out, a bit priggish or maybe folksy, like Prairie Home Companion, which was not at all what I was after in my own writing.
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