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Poet Cleopatra Mathis

By Shay Zeller on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.

Tonight on The Front Porch, we meet Poet Cleopatra Mathis. Her new book, “White Sea” uses our New England landscape of ocean and snow to ask questions about the nature of our lives as humans. She says the book is her meditation on death and the loss of the soul. But her poems are not completely monochromatic. She uses the landscape of her childhood in Louisiana to bring color into her work.

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Regional Relationships

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.

Many New Hampshire high schools and some middle schools educate students from more than one town. Most of the time, these arrangements work fine, but there are moments when it's not one big happy family, as voters now in the Kearsarge area are finding out. We'll look at regional schools- when they work – when they don't – and why. Laura's guests are Mark Joyce, Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Administrator's Association and Ted Comstock, Executive Director and Legal Counsel for the New Hampshire School Boards Association. We'll also hear from Margot Sanger-Katz, Reporter for the Concord Monitor and Carl Nelson, Superintendent for SAU #9 in the North Country and President of the New Hampshire School Administrator's Association.

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