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Community Calendar for July 19, 2011Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:10AMMEETING

In Tough Times, Irish Call Their DiasporaMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:56PMThe Ireland Reaching Out organization is tracking down descendants who left the Galway area and inviting them back to help the economy.

Megan Smolenyak: 6 Degrees of Separation: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Are CousinsMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:57PMKyra Sedgwick describes the discovery that she and her husband Kevin Bacon are 10th cousins once-removed as "a little upsetting," but it shouldn't be. Here's why.

Family Ancestral Search Steers Me to Orchard Lake Schools July 18Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:03AMI'm hoping the Nowakowski, Koolwick and Wichlacz families will accompany me in my on line visit to Poland Monday July 18 and participate in the Grandparents Project headed by Cecile Wendt Jensen, a genealogist, and director of the Polish American Research Institute (PARI) at the Orchard Lake Schools' Polish Mission.

Happening TodaySaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:14AMSATURDAY, JULY 16

Asheville genealogy column: Maybe you're a little Melungeon?Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:03PMMelungeon girls from Vardy, Tenn., in front of their Asheville boarding school about 1916. From about 1874 until the late 1920s, Melungeon children were sent to Asheville to be educated.

Grandparents Project at Orchard Lake unites generations of Jewish, Polish and German grandchildrenWednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 10:30AMSome grandchildren, among others, have questions for their grandparents regarding their genealogy and Godly beginnings. And, their paying attention to the admonition of Cicero:  "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.  For what is the worth of human life, unless it be woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

Investigating the artistic processFriday, June 24, 2011 @ 9:06AMDalhousie Art Gallery exhibits play with conceptual and textual art

Clifford WallWednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 12:25PMDecember 1, 1926 – June 17, 2011 Clifford Wall, 84, of Pine Grove, died peacefully at home on June 17, 2011. He is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Dorothy, son Larry and daughter-in-law Kathleen Russell of Seattle, daughters Beverly Hopper and her husband Martin Hopper of Pine Grove, Catherine Burr and her husband Timothy Burr of Pine Grove, grandchildren Timothy Burr Jr., of San ...