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Make-A-Wish

15-Year-Old Cancer Patient Meets Tennis Star Andy Murray By Laura Rodriguez - Friday, Mar 21, 2014 Kyle Fonda made a wish and it came true. The 15-year-old with Hodgkin's Lymphoma met tennis player Andy Murray and…

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Fonda East Village

Fonda East Village Opens Next Week By Florence Fabricant - February 13, 2012, 11:49 am Roberto Santibañez is replicating Fonda, his three-year old Mexican restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in an East Village space that is…

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First Women Doctors

Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure Ami McKay’s debut novel The Birth House was inspired by the former midwife’s home she and her husband bought in Nova 'Scotia near the Bay of Fundy. Her 2011 novel The…

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Cemetery Hopping

I was back east last month (September 2009) and I took three days to go cemetery hopping in Upstate New York, taking as many photos of Fonda gravestones as I could. I hit 11 cemeteries in…

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Copper Kettle

excerpt from The Story of Old Fort Johnson: Many tales are told of that dreadful night, when the unsuspecting inhabitants of the Hill were aroused from their peaceful slumbers to seek safety in flight from the…

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