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Hot dogs, cool cats: Adoptable pets from Tuscarawas County Humane Society Animal Shelter
Cranberry, a 2.5-year-old spayed female, is among the cats available for adoption at the Tuscarawas County Humane Society Animal Shelter, 1432 Tall Timber Road NE in New Philadelphia. Cranberry is one of the most social kitties available for adoption from the humane society. She doesn't enjoy being carried around but will run to you for all the love. Cranberry can also be playful.
Art on the Alley will bring music, food and vendors to downtown New Philadelphia on Sunday
NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Council had a light agenda on Monday with three council members absent. During the session: Mayor Joel Day reminded residents that Art on the Alley is scheduled for this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown New Philadelphia. He described it as one of the biggest arts-centered events in...
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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