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Exuberant anonymity in Bridgeport

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

One of the examples of anonymous art in Frank Warren's "PostSecret'' show at the Housatonic Museum of Art, in Bridgeport. (For infomation, call (203) 332-5052 or email RZella@hccc.comment.edu) Good old industrial Bridgeport has a remarkably fine museum, including works......

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 Tags  Frank Warren   Housatonic Museum of Art   PostSecret  

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Warm water, cool air, end of summer

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Photo by CHARLES PINNING A swimmer at Westport, Mass., Town Beach last week -- the time of maximum salt-water warmth around here. The ocean water has been weirdly warm this summer, even if the air temperatures have often not......

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Green in the blue; tax-raiser hypocrsy, Olive Kittredge

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Photos and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN Historic preservation seemed to come of age with the fight to save Pennsylvania Station in New York, back in the 1960s. Penn Station--one of America's greatest buildings ever--was lost to the forces of......

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 Tags  Central Falls   Elizabeth Strout   Marine Stewardship Council   Michael Rodrigues   Olive Kittredge  

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