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Book Review: An absquatulator, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a person who departs from a scene hurriedly and furtively, often to avoid arrest. Such a man was Alfred Thomas Wood, a nineteenth-century charlatan who bluffed his way across three continents, usually (but not always) one step ahead of both the law and his hoodwinked marks.
Open Book:Richard Harrington: Arctic Photography 1948–53 presents more than one hundred black-and-white photographs recording Inuit art, hunting, and daily life.
Michele Schwab wanted to create an opportunity for her students to make connections with local kêhtê-ayak (Cree for old ones) and knowledge carriers from Starblanket Cree Nation, Little Black Bear First Nation, Okanese First Nation, and Peepeekisis First Nation.
The right place. The right time. The right guys. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the good times rolled in Montreal. The nightlife was wild. The jazz was hot. Too soon it was all over.
PBS's two-hour documentary, The War of 1812, uses stunning re-enactments, evocative animation, and the incisive commentary of key experts to reveal little-known sides of an important war.
