Rochester Community Center Renamed for Journalist James Foley
Rochester s community center was renamed in honor of freelance war correspondent James Foley on Tuesday evening.
Foley worked as a journalist in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia and Syria before he was held captive and killed by ISIS on Aug. 19, 2014. He was 40 years old when he died.
Foley s parents lived in Rochester for 25 years, and relied on the support of the community after their son s death. The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation was founded in the city.
Diane Foley said on Wednesday that she and her husband, John, were honored by the dedication.
It was a huge honor. Probably one of the best ones of all, to be honored by the community center in Rochester, where so many wonderful things happen, Diane Foley said.
Portsmouth Peace Treaty Living Memorial cherry trees blossom in Portsmouth
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PORTSMOUTH – The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Living Memorial Cherry Trees are in bloom all around the Seacoast and across New Hampshire, as a reminder and celebration of New Hampshire history and the citizen diplomacy that helped end the Russo-Japanese War.
The cherry trees in Portsmouth are particularly noticeable on the bank of South Mill Pond next to City Hall. The large trees were a gift in 1985 from Portsmouth’s Sister City Nichinan Japan, where Baron Komura the lead Japanese negotiator at the 1905 peace conference was born. The smaller trees were planted in 2012, after the Japan-America Society of NH(JASNH) learned that the iconic Washington, D.C., cherry trees celebrate the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. The Japanese Foreign Ministry offered cherry trees descended from those yoshino cherry trees to 32 cities around the United States, including Portsmouth and the JASNH started planting them at
Orpheus Leading Eurydice
1. My affinity for language is a given. But how it was given and revealed more than other affinities that may have had it out for me as well is a mystery I’m trying to solve. My hunch is that an affinity for words was present at birth, then snapped-to early on by seductive teachers who assigned adventure narratives and lyric poems, and later the stories of Stephen Crane, the novels of Thomas Hardy, the poetry of Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay (her marquee name was a poem in itself). The tenderly implied coupling in the woods Tess endured with Alec D’Urberville unfolded so shadily that I had no idea she was being forced against her will otherwise I would have crawled into the novel and run the rapist off in the midst of the act. In such moments, this affinity for the book manifested a transcendent sense that prose and poetry recognized me as its completion, that I was
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