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Grasshopper races thrill Herminie's H.W. Good students
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A runaway grasshopper who hopped around the classroom 18 years
ago at H.W. Good Elementary School inspired a new teacher to hold an
annual grasshopper race.
"While the students were trying to catch it, it just kept hopping
all over the place, and I'm looking at this and I'm saying to
myself, 'Bingo,'" recalled Lou Candelore, a third-grade teacher. "A
light bulb went on, and I said, 'Let's race these guys.'"
Candelore, who had been looking for a culminating activity for a
unit on grasshoppers, decided to incorporate the idea of a race
about two years into his career.
The tradition continued ...
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My Dear Mrs. Ames: A study of Suffragist Cartoonist Blanche Ames Ames
Magazine article from: Historical Journal of Massachusetts
; ...marriage of Blanche to Oakes Ames. They struggled through...desire for independence from Oakes' family and his jealousy...the rights due to women. Oakes supported her political...role in society. Blanche Ames Ames used her degree in...
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CELEBRATING THE AMES 100TH ANNIVERSARY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...anniversary celebration at the Oakes and Blanche Ames Mansion in Borderland State Park...was especially fond of orchids. Oakes Ames, a professor of botany at Harvard...other artifacts of Blanche and Oakes Ames's love of orchids and each other...
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TOOL COLLECTION WILL FINALLY GET A HOME AMES COLLECTION WAS STORED IN STONEHILL CELLAR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...The building Galer spotted was the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall, one of five structures...were commissioned by members of the Ames family, a ubiquitous Yankee clan...with a shovel," noted Galer. An Ames shovel. There are some 10 buildings...
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RULING BOOSTS AMES LIBRARY EXPANSION PLAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...This is certainly not the last word in this dispute," said Frederick Ames, the great-great-grandson of Oliver Ames, who endowed the library, and trustee of the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall next door to the library. "We will continue to fight...
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Renaissance woman; Blanche Ames (1878-1969)
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; Blanche Ames was a woman of many talents. When designs...Easton and is open to the public for tours. Ames, wife of Harvard professor and world-renowned orchidologist Oakes Ames, was also a gifted artist; she made thousands...
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MAXWELL AMES, 54; LOBSTERMAN, SAILOR, `JACK OF ALL TRADES'
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
; ...son, Marshall D., and a daughter, Marina D. Ames, all of Matinicus; a brother, Lavon S. "Biscuit" Ames III of Vinalhaven; three sisters, Catherine A. Oakes of Vinalhaven, Jackie Ames of Freeport and Carolyn Ames Pitt of Tenants Harbor...
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THE STORY OF A SHOVEL MAKER AND A POLITICAL SCANDAL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Oliver's sons, Oliver Jr. and Oakes Ames, came on as partners in 1844. By...built as homes for Ames workers. Oakes Ames was a risk-taking businessman...by the House of Representatives. Oakes Ames returned to Easton a defeated man...
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Retreat to nature; Borderlands estate created as sanctuary and inspiration for suffragist and botanist.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...exotic plants, where did Blanche and Oakes Ames spend their evenings? The answer...diaries, which were published as "Oakes Ames: Jottings of a Harvard Botanist...jottings describe the Easton landscape Oakes Ames so loved. Today, visitors there...
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game ; Learn about Cheyenne history and see who had a hand in building the city.
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
; ...fortune heirs from Massachusetts: Oakes and Oliver Ames. The "creative financing" of...the Union Pacific Railroad, and Oakes Ames was a U.S. senator. But here...construction costs. And Sen. Oakes Ames convinced his colleagues to support...
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Shovel maker played role in industrial revolution
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ...1849 - Miners seek fortune with Ames shovels during the California Gold Rush 1860s - Brothers Oakes and Oliver Ames play crucial roles in construction of the Union Pacific railroad. But Oakes Ames, a congressman, becomes a scapegoat...
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