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TRAINING OXEN A WAY OF LIFE FOR R.I. MAN
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EXETER, R.I. - Most farmers these days would rather buy a
tractor or a horse than spend three years training an ox.
For Stuart MacDonald Jr., however, oxen are a way of life.
The stereotype of oxen as stubborn, dumb and slow beasts is
unjustified, he said. Oxen are smarter than horses -- if they're
trained right.
"One old-timer told me, you've got to know at least half what
the ox knows to get along," he said. "If you tell them the wrong
thing, they'll do wha...
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TRAINING OXEN A WAY OF LIFE FOR R.I. MAN
The Boston Globe
; EXETER, R.I. - Most farmers these days would rather buy a tractor or a horse than spend three years training an ox. For Stuart MacDonald Jr., however, oxen are a way of life. The stereotype of oxen as stubborn, dumb and slow beasts is unjustified, he said. Oxen are smarter than horses -- if they're
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PASSING ON TRADITION Brooks grandfather teaches 12-year-old the art of training oxen
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; BROOKS - It's not hard to find Don Nickerson's farm: Cross the railroad tracks, head through the woods, and watch for the white farmhouse on the hill. The tricky part is shaking the feeling that somewhere along the way, you slipped backward in time. There are plenty of places in Maine where
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Of all sizes Oxen pull their weight, and more
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; NORWAY - Oxen of all sizes and drivers of all ages showed their stuff this weekend at the Oxford County Fairgrounds. The Pine Tree Steer and Oxen Association held its annual oxen pull with festivities starting Saturday morning with 12-year-old and younger drivers and teams weighing under 1,000
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John A. Macdonald and the Bottle
Journal of Canadian Studies
; ... wanton and unprovoked attack"; Cartier and McGee lauded his role in Confederation (Montreal Gazette, 7 September 1866; Canadian News 13 September 1866, 169; 20 September 1866, 184-85; 27 September 1866, 197-98; Creighton 1964,402). As the Globe pointed out ...
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METAL GURU; SCULPTOR RICHARD MACDONALD FORGES ART FROM LIFE.
Monterey County Weekly
; Richard MacDonald's studio feels poised to burst into movement. It's a garden of kinetic potential, an expectant place of tightly wound muscle, a forest of half-formed and fully-formed bodies caught on the cusp of a leap, a pirouette. A crowd of beings somehow snatched from the flow of time a
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"A home which is still not a home": Finding a Place for Ranald MacDonald.
ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
; In 1847, a twenty-four-year-old half-Chinook Indian, half-Scot named Ranald MacDonald signed onto the crew of the Plymouth, a whaling ship out of New York. He was about to act on a plan that had been forming in his mind since he left his apprenticeship at a bank in Toronto three years prior. His
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A critical American: the politics of Dwight Macdonald.
The Nation
; To Dwight Macdonald, self-proclaimed anarcho-cynicalist and editor of the radical journal Politics from 1944 to 1949, nothing symbolized the closing of political options in the 1940s better than the ideological marriage of the two Henrys, Luce and Wallace. An issue of Luce's Life in 1941 heralded
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Remaking Givenchy.(Givenchy S. A. appoints Julien Macdonald)(Brief Article)
Newsweek International
; ... Givenchy last March, few had ever heard of him. Who is this Jack Macdonald? asked one French fashion editor when she heard the news. The world will soon find out. Last week Macdonald received NEWSWEEK in his new office, a nondescript cubbyhole in the venerable ...
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Cancer changed Donalda MacDonald's perspective on life - AND HOW SHE TEACHES
The Canadian Nurse
; When Donalda MacDonald was diagnosed with cancer, she wondered what she'd do with the last year of her life. "The type they thought I had - esophageal cancer - had a very poor prognosis," she remembers. Fortunately, tests showed the initial diagnosis to be wrong. The cancer turned out to be
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MACDONALD SEES OPPORTUNITY ON THE ICE RINK IN LOWELL NEW UMASS COACH WANTS TO DUPLICATE TOURNAMENT SUCCESS
The Boston Globe
; LOWELL - Blaise MacDonald knows a good opportunity when he sees one. And he usually makes the most of it. After building the Niagara men's ice hockey program from scratch in 1996 and leading it to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2000, McDonald was hired as the coach at the University of
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