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Archive for November, 2008

Come hear Albany’s first-ever Poet Laureate, Christina Hutchins, next Monday, December 1, at 12:30 PM, in the library’s Edith Stone Room.  Hutchins’ talk, about “The Importance of Words,” will include some of her own poems and explore “what it means to value language as something multifaceted and beautiful.”  This free program is part of the [...]

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www.albanytoday.org

Albany Today is a community news website maintained by Albany resident Linda Fan. Linda gets around. In the past weeks, she has reported on the state of the City’s economy, local elections, the fire on Albany Hill and the ceremony commemorating Albany vets on Veteran’s Day. With the print media giving decreasing attention to local news, websites like Albany [...]

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Getting to Know the Next President

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle last week featured commentary on the books Barack Obama lists as his favorites on his Facebook page and those John McCain lists on his.  The president-elect’s list includes Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, the classic Moby Dick, and Emerson’s Self-Reliance. (McCain’s Facebook list has just one title: [...]

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