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Confessions of a Secret Boatbuilder

When not getting his hands dirty in the soil, the Bay Gardener keeps busy restoring old boats and making new ones

Wife Clara claims that my desire to build and restore boats can be traced to Viking genes in my blood. I remind her I am of French Canadian descent with Algonquin heritage. Her rebuttal is that Vikings invaded northern Europe where my French ancestors lived.

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 10/14/10

Double Dipping

Sailing is Collin Linehan’s sport. It’s also his career

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– by Amy Russell – 10/7/10

Old Stuff Is Good Stuff

Doug Sisk can’t bear to see anything go to waste

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– by Margaret Tearman – 5/13/10

A Time to Reap, A Time to Sow

After 21 seasons, native-plant propagator Mary-Stuart Sierra prepares for one final harvest

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– by Amy Russell – 5/13/10

Taking a Roadside Stand

Volunteers hoof it across the country, picking up litter and lecturing on waste

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– by Diana Beechener – 5/13/10

For the Love of Luca

A little boy gives you a big chance to fight childhood cancer

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– by Margaret Tearman – 5/20/10

If Trouble Was Money ...

After nine years, Don Hooker compiles the Bay Blues Festival’s greatest hits and biggest catastrophes

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– by Diana Beechener – 5/20/10

Caught Up in a Whirlwind of Music

Ed Sparks never left the land of rock and roll

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– by Marilyn Recknor – 6/3/10

Music to Soothe Wounded Warriors

Ensemble Galilei’s June 13 concert promotes their Walter Reed music

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– by Diana Beechener – 6/10/10

Better with Age

Senior ShowStoppers dance circles around stereotypes

Sultry women draped in gossamer, adorned with trinkets and coins, shimmy their hips on the main stage. All the women gyrating are over 70; some are in their early 80s. These members of Joanne DeWilde’s belly dancing troupe are just a fraction of the elite entertainment group called The Senior ShowStoppers.

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– by Vicki Marsh – 9/16/10