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Art, literature and theater are up front, plus a spark of romance.Dan Muchlnsky, Plainfield, New Hampshire, is national distributor for Gladys Boalt ornaments, signed handcrafted and hand-sewn figures from the Bible, music, fairytales, literature, nature and elsewhere. Frank and Monica deSerio, Luray, Virginia, unveiled Avio Galleries' government and corporate artworks at the International Facilities Managers Association show in Philadelphia. Wheat Allen, Oakland, California, published Howard WheatleyAlkn:Sculptor to Emperors, Presidents and Kings, a pho- to review of his works, available at allenwr@mcn.org.

Tom Holzel, co-author of the 1986 First on Everest: The Mystery ofMallory and Irvine, was pictured on the Mount Everest Web site with a personally designed closed-circuit oxygen system while testing it during his own climb. In a separate email Tom ventured an opinion as to which fraternity party inspired the Animal House movie, which, he maintains, was a Chi Phi-AD toga party at AD whose rock band sound system he rescued by wrapping a bad fuse in cigarette foil. "Most memorable rock 'n' roll bash I've been to then or since," he swears.

John Dickey has written Earth:A Narrative inVerse (Author House), 44 cantos that recount the Earths beginning and evolution through its fate 6 billion years from today. Steve Macht, after rave reviews in an L.A.-produced Arthur Miller play, looks forward to seeing son Gabriel in The GoodShepherd, a film about the CIA with an all-star cast including Robert De Niro, Matt Damon and Alec Baldwin. Peter Rollins, a Macht acquaintance from Richardson, is co-editor of Hollywood's West: TheAmerican Frontier in Film, Television & History (The University Press of Kentucky).

Peabody-award winning PBS education reporter John Merrow married Joan Lonergan on Martha's Vineyard after a year's delay because the couple could neither find enough time nor schedule their preacher any sooner. Joan is head of Castilleja, a girls' private school in Palo Alto. John is a visiting scholar at Stanford, which makes the marriage bicoastal. Both John and Joan were previously married. Stu and Julie Mahlin, Cincinnati, celebrated their 40th anniversary and 29th year in their circa-1903 house. Stu, a retired management consultant, purchases timeshares on eBay for winters in southern California, spring in Arizona or Florida, parts of summer and fall in Colorado or the Berkshires and Hilton Head. Sometimes they trade for Europe. "Nice to have full apartments, not just hotel rooms, wherever we go," beams Stu.

Steve Frank, who retired as chairman of Southern California Edison in 2002, has been named to the board of Northrop Grumman. He's also on boards at Washington Mutual and Puget Energy. Bob Silverman, founder and head of Winter Construction Cos. in Atlanta, has been made a trustee of Brenau University, a women's college in Gainsville, Georgia. He's a director of the Urban Land Institute.

We're Moving to Alaska, the new book re- counting Nick Carney's childhood move from Ohio, is available at www.lulu.com/content/ 103057. That will getyou there faster than the address I gave you previously.

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