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Arts & Culture / Trends & Traditions

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Polly Wants a Porter

“Lay It Up!”

Curling is chess on ice, with broomsticks

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Let’s Get Dale to Play!

Christmas Laundry

Deck the halls with sheets and folly

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Together They Stay A World Apart

For the Hutterites, the way to heaven lies through faith, communal living and a lot of hard work

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Protect and Serve

In a small town that practices community policing, officers faithfully fulfill their mission with courage and compassion

Cornel Wilde

Conversation Stoppers

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The Old Ball Game

It’s two, three, four strikes you’re out

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“Hallelujah, I’m a Bum”

They took to the road in jobless thousands to escape failure, seek work or find a kind of freedom

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Memory Blank

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No Tea, But Sympathy

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Hands-on Toys

A game of Texas hold 'em in progress. "Hold 'em" is a popular form of poker.

Fake & Rake

Played for love or played for money, poker is coming out of the back room

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Fire Deportment

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“She Said Yes! She Said Yes! She Said Yes!”

How a few brave and smitten souls got up the courage to declare their love and propose in public, and then lived to tell about it

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