Mary Martin Schaefer, who is actually Canadian — a bluenose from Halifax, Nova Scotia, another big fishing town — chose Chapter 119, "The Candles".
The book is set in an unnamed Southern town, and each chapter is told from a different character's perspective.
In the latest chapter, Town of Brookhaven officials said they expected to meet last week to determine how the building that houses the carousel could be upgraded to meet fire codes.
Later, Plato and Xenophon (400 BC) used the word to describe a stay in a country or the arrival of a person: Παριος ὅυ έγὼ ᾐσθόμην έπιδημοῡντα, "a Parian who, I learned, was in town" (Plato, Apology, chapter I, paragraph 38).
With a paltry two-and-a-half months to campaign, the candidates are beginning to feel the pressure.I figured the Register would be full of campaign coverage with a local slant: details on the political proclivities of this small town or that union chapter, perhaps some pictures of presidential candidates at barn shows or town hall meetings.
Danni faces a lot of trouble living in her dad's little town and things only get worse chapter by chapter.
They followed a formula that's common in the self-help literature of Chinese factory towns: short, simple chapters that feature some famous foreigner and conclude with a moral.
Two American presidents, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, were born there, and the grandson of the younger of them devoted a whole chapter to the town in "The Education of Henry Adams", one of America's greatest works of autobiography.Quincy is almost certainly less famous as the birthplace of Carl Andre, a leading contemporary sculptor.
In "Don Otavio," the chapter on the town of Querétaro gets to Querétaro only in the last paragraph, because Bedford wants to tell us about Mexican provincial inns: The ground floor is always a large, unkempt parlour opening into the patio without much transition, full of overgrown plants, wicker chairs, objects without visible use, birds free and caged, and a number of sleeping dogs.
In many respects, the arrival of young people like the Finks marks the latest chapter for Stuyvesant Town, which with Peter Cooper Village, its pricier sister, offers 11,200 apartments and for more than 60 years represented one of the city's most notable concentrations of housing for middle-income families.
