The pubs are filled with locals who will happily spin you a yarn in exchange for a pint.
They're connected by a historical narrative — a yarn, in Mabou's parlance — written by Nancy Groce, an urban folklorist who has worked with the Smithsonian Institution.
What could be more pertinent than a yarn in which an arrogant, number-crunching city slicker regains her humanity when faced with decent, hard-working everyday folks in the provinces?
One involves a play on how telling a cinematic story is like "spinning a yarn," in which Yahoo plans to "yarn bomb" Park City, according to a spokesman.
But when stage time is more limited, a composer and librettist can spin quite a yarn in 10 minutes.
A gothic horror yarn in which a man surgically merges another man with a walrus, it also takes a long, ludicrous digression into comedy with a surprise cameo by an outsized star.
Against the backdrop of Churchill Downs' iconic twin spires, the Derby is a race that stirs America's penchant for a ripping yarn in a theater of high-stakes drama.
In "Spiral Spells," children can examine that shape in nature (seashells), admire it in design (coiled pots) and recreate it in a craft by coiling yarn in a basket pattern.
In December 1999, Patricia Sutherland, an archaeologist, announced that she had found a 10-foot strand of ancient yarn in a collection of Dorset artifacts from Northern Baffin Island that were lying uncataloged here at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where she is a curator.
This paper presents the use of a novel double-helix yarn that is shown to be auxetic, and an auxetic composite made from this yarn in a woven textile structure.
