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The discovery of one of five missing panels in famed American modernist Jacob Lawrence’s painting depicting Shays’ Rebellion located on an apartment wall in New York City’s Upper West Side led to the discovery of yet another missing panel. (Photo courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society, New York; via Peabody Essex Museum)
ACROSS AMERICA A good treasure hunt is what we need. But like everything else in this past year of the pandemic a) it s been a year? b) it s only been a year? or c) what is time? this one has a few twists. It started with the curiosity piqued in a visitor admiring a piece of art by renowned American modernist Jacob Lawrence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A West Philly high school student recently learned she was awarded more than $1 million in scholarships at 18 different colleges. (Shutterstock)
PHILADELPHIA, PA A West Philadelphia teenager and her family are overjoyed after the high school senior was awarded more than $1 million in scholarships from 18 colleges and universities.
Seventeen-year-old Shanya Robinson-Owens, who attends George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science, received $1,074,260 in scholarships after she was accepted to colleges including Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; La Salle University in Philadelphia; Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri; and Temple University in Philadelphia, among others.
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College athlete surprised with full scholarship.Christine Owens
A high school senior who applied to over 20 colleges has been offered more than $1 million in scholarship money.
Shanya Robinson-Owens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been accepted into 18 schools. The 17-year-old currently attends George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science.
Shanya s aunt, Christine Owens, told Good Morning America that Shanya was always a star student, though the $1,074,260 in total scholarships was a pleasant surprise. We are overjoyed, Owens said. I knew she wouldn t have a problem getting into colleges, but we didn t know they would award her this much money in scholarship funds.