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Friday, March 2, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 9
African Children’s Choir Sing for their Schooling By Timothy Gillis WELLS Over the years, the African Children’s Choir has played before presidents, heads of state and even the Queen of England for her diamond jubilee. The choir has also had the honor of singing alongside artists like Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban, and Mariah Carey. This month, regular folks like us will get a chance to take in their youthful, international sounds at three different local venues as part of their ninemonth tour world tour. They
The African Children’s Choir takes a well-deserved break from singing to enjoy their trip to the United States (photograph by Sarah Wanyana)
are singing for their supper, in a sense. They are raising money that will help them return to Uganda, where the members of this choir hail, and support their
schooling up through and including university. Amy Berry, tour leader for the choir, cut her proverbial teeth as a social worker. She has vis-
ited and done mission work in Uganda on five different occasions. She graduated from East Tennessee State University in 2016 with a degree in social work.
“I have a huge heart for Uganda and its people,” she said. “I learned about the African Children’s Choir through a friend of a former chaperone. I knew this was an amazing opportunity for me (to) realize my next step in serving in Uganda.” Berry grew up in a small town called Bluff City, TN, and this work has helped expose her to international concerns. “When the children first come, many things are brand new to them. A group of the girls See CHOIR page 7...
Women’s Ice Hockey, Here to Stay YORK The U.S. Women’s Ice Hockey team just celebrated winning gold at the Olympics. Not so long ago, the committee reportedly considered removing the sport from the Olympics since there was no parity with other nations: it was always Canada or the U.S. competing for the highest prize. And while
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that was the case again this year—with the US team edging Canada on penalties—the level of talented female players has risen across the globe. A local woman got her start in the sport as a youngster, when she was the lone female competing with a bunch of boys. Mandy Cronin credits her parents, Rose and Jim, for being her biggest supporters and helping her move from early experiences at local rinks to going pro in Canada. “We moved to York in 1983 from the Dayton, Ohio, area with five children, ages 3, 8, 10,
16, 17,” said Rose. “Mandy was the youngest and had to always follow around to wherever her siblings were going. That is how she began to play ice hockey.” Mandy has seen the sport come a long way since those days. When she was younger, there were no girls’ teams in the area to join. “I was 12 when I tried out for the Seacoast Spartans and made the team as the first girl,” she said this week. “That was when I first tried playing goalie.” Although she had no experience before that tryout, she beat out
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four boys for the roster spot. She was recruited to New Hampton Prep School during her 8th grade year. Cronin was the first Division I women’s ice hockey player (as a goalie) to
Shakespeare’s Source for The Fool, 11 Plays Unearthed By Timothy Gillis SEACOAST There’s excitement in the world of Shakespeare. It’s a monumental find. Impartial advertising calls it the most important discovery since the mid-1800’s. Academe considers it the Olympian summit in scholarship. A new book called “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels by George North: A Newly Uncovered Manuscript Source for Shakespeare’s Plays” by Dennis McCarthy (pictured) and June Schlueter has the lit-
erary world buzzing, and the subject has allowed me to use
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Mandy Cronin lays it all on the ice for women’s hockey. She is pictured here with fellow goalies at one of her camps.
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some of Shakespeare’s linguistic inventions in this story’s lede. That’s right, among the 1,700 words that the “sweet swan of Avon” added to the language, seven appear in the first four sentences. And another one: Marketing. The book is in only its third week of publication and already requires a second printing. By all accounts, it’s a discovery of the most important Shakespearean source after “Plutarch’s Lives,” the works of Hall and Hollinshed, Ovid and The Bible.
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sign on with the University of Maine at Orono. After graduating, she headed north for more opportunities. See HOCKEY page 30... Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter’s book connects eleven of Shakespeare’s plays with the earlier source, using WCopyfind, a digital program to identify words and phrases that were in both. “I’ve spent the past twelve years studying the connection between Shakespeare and the North family,” McCarthy said at Martingale Wharf last weekend. He was led to believe that sources for works in Shakespeare’s canon were in a family estate library in England and were referenced in a 1927 auction catalog. “I was positive there would be some sort of source. I was really hoping for a single eleSee SHAKESPEARE page 4...
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