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Notes from East Hampton, February 10

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On Saturday Bookhampton continued its winter lecture series with

On Saturday Bookhampton continued its winter lecture series with "Exuberance: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

" a talk given by Professor Julie Sheen.

author on Feb 9, 2010
Kevin Foran and Kimberly Havlik have earned dean’s list honors for the fall 2009 semester at the State University of New York at Oneonta. William Schumann and Sarah Tabet, both... more

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