Scholars uncover answers and create more questions on the outlaw’s life and family from New York to New Mexico.This past year has been a watershed in terms of new scholarship on Billy the Kid. Here, in a True West exclusive, are the new finds you need to know about.
In 1951, Belfast artist James MacIntyre spent a summer on the tiny island of Inishlacken, just off the Galway coast, with fellow artists Gerard Dillon and George Campbell. Years later, he wrote a lively account of the mishaps, friendships and inspirations of that summer in his book
Three Men on an Island.
James MacIntyre s book in turn inspired Belfast artist Rosie McGurran to set up The Inishlacken Project, which every year gives a group of artists the opportunity to spend a week working on the island.
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Lyric Feature, presenter and producer Claire Cunningham tells the story of the 2020 Inishlacken Project, meeting founder Rosie McGurran and her fellow artists Una Sealy, Michael Doherty, Dorothy Smith, Noah Rose, Selma Makela, Mick O’Dea and Barbara Allen - listen to
New community fridge opens on Worcester s Portland Street
WORCESTER The city’s latest community fridge opened here on Sunday, as organizers set their sights on even more locations.
The fridge located at 44 Portland St. like the first one that Worcester Community Fridges opened at Fantastic Pizza & Café, 910 Main St. just over a month ago allows anyone to drop off or take food, 24 hours a day.
Another organization, Worcester Free Fridges, has also opened a public fridge at 300 Southbridge St., next to the Miss Worcester Diner.
“It’s all about normalizing free food exchange,” said Maria Ravelli, one of the founders of the Worcester Community Fridges project.
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Why mosquitoes choose you 01:06 (CNN)Of the more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes in the world, just a small number have evolved to specialize in sucking human blood.
How human-biting mosquitoes track us down so effectively isn t currently known, but it matters, since they don t just make us itch. They also carry dangerous diseases such as Zika, dengue, West Nile virus and malaria that can be deadly.
In fact, stopping these pesky insects in their tracks could save up to half a million lives lost to those diseases each year. In each of those cases where a mosquito has evolved to bite humans which has only happened two or three times they become nasty disease vectors, said Carolyn Lindy McBride, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in New Jersey.