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Wander the vines at the Waiheke Festival. Photo / File
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Waiheke Autumn Festival
If you relish the idea of a festival of fabulous wine and food, secure your ticket to the inaugural Waiheke Island Wine and Food Festival it s less than a month away. The threeday event, open from 10am-5pm, begins on Friday, May 14. Restricted to over 18-year-olds, a Festival Passport costs $180. There will be wine-tastings, food-pairings, artworks on display and live music and your ticket covers your return ferry-ride from Auckland with Fullers, plus hop-on, hop-off shuttles for the event s 10 vineyards. The island has accommodation options to suit all budgets.
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PETALING JAYA: MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong has extended an invitation to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng to join him on a ferry ride to prove to him that the boats have not completely been put out to pasture. When he has the time, I would like him to join me on a ferry ride to prove to Penangites that the services have not ended. After a ride in the old ferry, we ll return with the newer and faster boat service to show him how much time can be saved, he said in a Facebook post on Sunday (Jan 10).
Film documents history of Underground Railroad in South Texas
Dramatic story of “Just a Ferry Ride to Freedom” produced by UT-RGV
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EDINBURG, Texas – A little known chapter of Civil War history makes for a dramatic story told in “Just a Ferry Ride to Freedom,” a documentary produced by the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.
The film is based on the choice made by runaway slaves prior to the Civil War, to head south instead of north, to Mexico using another Underground Railroad.
The route to freedom would be longer over treacherous terrain between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers.