Your team of local editors weighs in on their favorite books from the past year.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Editor's Note: The following is part of a special "end-of-the-year" series in which local editors from your nearby Patch towns highlight their favorites in various topics. Jeff Sullivan - Editor, Mansfield Patch "Death of Kings" by Bernard Cornwell. If you want historical fiction, Cornwell is one of the greatest writers of all time. You thought Stephen King wrote a lot? Cornwell has written 53 books since 1981. King has written 55 since he started writing professionally since the 1970s. Anyway, the book is about the death of King Alfred the Great during the Danish invasion of England circa 899 AD. You might ask why care about Alfred, well, any town with the name "-borough" after it owes its monicker to him. He started building "Burhs," …
The clinic is open to children ages 6 and older.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Hunger Games are coming to Seekonk. TheNewman YMCA will offer a free clinic June 2 to introduce children ages 6 and older to the sport of archery. "Archery is hugely popular with young people this year, featured in movies as diverse as the Disney/Pixar animated film Brave, the superhero blockbuster The Avengers, and, of course, the smash hit, The Hunger Games," a press release from the YMCA states. Certified instructors will lead the clinic, teaching children about the rules of the game, how to shoot a bow and arrow, safety and how to do target practice. The clinic will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. For more information, call 508-336-7103 or go to www.ymcagreaterprovidence.org.
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12:46 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013
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