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...past few years, so it didn't happen in their lifetimes. But his wife Anne's mother, in Winchester, is going crazy over Pedro, and John and Anne have a son and daughter old enough to appreciate ? and share ? their parents' excitement. Barry's father, an artist up in Boothbay, Maine, is a fair-weather fan, but it is fair weather these days and he's aboard. Jane's mother in Wellesley told her daughter late last night, during the ritualistic right-after-the-final-out phone call, "I think it may happen in my lifetime." My friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith of Our Fathers | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...competitive career began in September 1995 when he won the Northeast Regional Tournament, which was conveniently held in his hometown of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. After winning that tournament, he advanced to MGAA nationals that October. And as Gilchrist so cleverly states, "The ball started rolling from there...

Author: By Dierdre A. Mask, | Title: HAPPY GILCHRIST | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...Tununak, a tiny Eskimo community on the windswept coast of Alaska, Teacher Ben Orr is planning to invite elderly storytellers into the classroom so his young students can learn and then write down traditional legends and lore of their vanishing culture. For Donna Maxim's third-graders in Boothbay, Me., writing will become a tool in science and social studies as students record observations, questions and reactions about what they discover each day. In Eagle Butte, S.D., Geri Gutwein has designed a writing project in which her ninth-grade students exchange letters with third-graders about stories they have read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Human Power or Magic | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Jack Gimbel, 46, has always been proud of his family name. So almost ten years ago, when he decided to open a gift shop in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, he appropriately christened it Gimbel & Sons Country Store. Last September, though, he received a letter from Gimbel Bros. Inc., the huge New York-based department store chain, asking him to change the sign on his store or face legal action. When Gimbel refused, Gimbel Bros, store sued on the grounds that by using his family name, Jack Gimbel had "irreparably damaged" the 38-store chain and was responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Gimbel vs. Gimbel | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...year at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Even though Maine Yankee has a good safety record, nearby residents began to worry lest even a minor accident devastate the seacoast's $175 million-a-year tourist and fishing industries. Said former Congressman Stanley Tupper of nearby Boothbay Harbor: "There are 100,000 tourists here every summer. The only way to get all of them out would be by sea, and we could only do that if the Navy happened to have some ships in the vicinity." Led by Sculptor Raymond Shadis and his wife Pat, residents collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yankee, Yes | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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