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Ex-German seaman recounts a sailing ship’s double life (New Haven Register)

Long before U.S. Coast Guard cadets were hoisting sail on the training ship Barque Eagle, Tido Holtkamp was climbing her rigging.

Playing from memory on board of life (Greensboro News & Record)

Editor's note: "Winter People" is an annual series by columnist Lorraine Ahearn that appears Sundays between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. There is a move in chess that is game-changing, if not game-ending. A lone pawn, an expendable foot soldier, makes his way square by square across the board. In the shadow of the larger chessmen, he goes unnoticed, posing no threat. read ...

Old news: Shipyards in Kennebunk's lower village (York County Coast Star)

Jorge Christenson was born into a shipbuilding family in Bergen, Norway, in 1826. He and his brother Jacob immigrated to this country in early 1850 to escape the high unemployment rate in their native land. Jacob settled first in a Norwegian community in...

Clubs & Organizations - 2008 (Fernandina Beach News-Leader)

AARP lobbies for senior citizen benefits at the national, statewide and local level and is a social group with service to others in mind. It meets 9:30 a.m. to noon the second Monday at the Community Room at the Fernandina Beach Police Department, 1525 Lime St. Call John Megna at 277-2143.

Pilot In Davis Islands Plane Crash Is Tampa Plastic Surgeon (The Tampa Tribune)

Two men were injured when a single-engine sport plane crashed while landing at Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands this morning.