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9 THE DAILY TIMES Salisbury, Md. Friday, January 5, 1996 Page 13 'Pippin' performance SALISBURY "Pippin," an award-winning Broadway musical, will be performed by Salisbury State Theatre, Friday through Sunday, Jan. 26 through 28, at Salisbury State in formation for lefties only governor established the Advisory Council on Landlord- Tenant Affairs. The council advises the governor on landlord-tenant affairs and informs the governor about the concerns of landlords and tenants regarding state programs, policies and legislation. Joseph A.

Ciotola is chairman and a contact person is Robert P. Goodman, (410) 514-7179. You may write to the Council at: 100 Community Place, Crownsville, Md. 21032. Source: The Maryland Manual, 199495 What is the address for "Lefties Only" and are there any other companies that supply Kroducts for left-handed idividuals? Lefties Only, 1972 Willistoii Road, South Burlington, Vt.

05403: Free price list. Other companies include Left Hand Center, 210 W. Grant, Unit 215, Minneapolis, Minn. 55403: catalog $2. LeftHanded Solutions, PO Box 617, Port Jefferson Station, N.Y, 11776: catalog $2.

Lefthanders International, PO Box 8249, Topeka, Kan. 66608: catalog $2. Source: The Catalog of Catalogs IV, The Complete Mail-Order Directory by Edward Palder, 1995. What were the names of the three Magi? In the New Testament there were three Magi who, according to the Gospel of Matthew, number seems to have come about from the number of gifts gold (wealth), frankincense (worship) and myrrh (healing). Sources: Roberta Lincoln from The Lands and Peoples of the Living Bible: A Narrative History of the Old and New Testaments by Bernard R.

Youngman, 1982; Charlie Steinhice from Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, 1972; Lois Fundis (fundislwvlc. wvnet. edu) from The New Catholic Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia Americana, International Edition, 1995. Dew point is the temperature at which invisible moisture in the air turns to visible water droplets. But how is this temperature determined and how is it applied to the art of weather forecasting? As you say, the dew point is the temperature at which air becomes saturated when cooled without adding any more moisture or changing its air Eressure.

It can be determined cooling a flat polished metal surface until it become clouded with a film of water. The dew point is the temperature at which the film appears. In practice, the dew point is usually computed from simultaneous readings of wet-and dry-bulb thermometers. It is useful to know the dew point to predict fog or frost, for instance. Fog results when air is cooled below its dew point; frost forms at the frost point, when the air is saturated with respect to ice.

Source: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science Technology, 1992. Is there a state agency that deals with landlordtenant problems and legislation? Within the Department of Housing and Community Development in 1990, the followed the guiding star to Bethlehem to render homage to the newborn King of the Jews. Their names in Western tradition are usually given as Gaspar or Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. These names are not in the Bible, but rather date to a second century legend. In Syria they are called Larvandad, Harmisdas and Gushnasaph, while in Greece they are known as Appelios, Damaskos and Amerios.

In Hebrew they were Galagat, Sarachin and Malagat. Empress Helena is said to have taken their bones to Constantinople, from where they were taken to Milan and eventually to the cathedral at Cologne. They are sometimes referred to as the Three Kings of Cologne. There is apparently little historical justification even for calling them Kings and the idea that the Magi were three in This column is compiled by Louise Ash, coordina tor of community services at the Worcester County Library. Send your questions to: Question Authority, co The Daily Times, i' PO Box 1937, Salisbury, Md.

21802-1937; or contact your local library. New museum showcases the art of the South i university. Performances include: a buffet, Friday, Jan. 26, beginning at 6 p.m., $40; black-tie optional, Saturday. Jan.

27, beginning at 6 p.m., $40; and dessert mati- i nees, 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 27, and Sunday, Jan. 28, $16. Pro-ceeds will benefit MAC the Area Agency on Aging, which provides various programs and services to senior citizens on the Lower Shore. I For tickets and more infor- mation call Lucy Butler, (410) 742-0505.

Joseph House benefit SALISBURY Tickets are I I still available for the Gala of Hope for the Homeless, to be held Saturday, Feb. 3, from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in the Midway Room of the Wicomico Youth Civic Center, Salisbury. Pro- ceeds will benefit Joseph House Village.

r. The event is black-tie optional and will feature music by The Convertibles. A silent auction is also planned. The cost is $30. 1 Table reservations for 10 are 7 available.

Tickets are available at Peninsula Bank. Call (410) 742-0714. The event is being presented by the Friends of Joseph House Ministries. Reunion meeting 'i CRISFIELD The class of 1971 of Crisfield High School i will hold a reunion planning meeting at Crisfield Fire Hall, Thursday at 7 p.m. All class members are wel-: come to participate.

The date of 7 the reunion and possible events will be discussed. Information is still needed on 1 the following class members: Patricia Ward, Willis White, Mice Handy, Mi-' chael Schultz, Mona Paro, Ella Mae Maddox, Larry Horsey, James Fisher, Ronnie Taylor, Brenda Culbreth Townsend, Anna Lewis, Syl- 2 vester Jackson, Tent Perrigan Fisher, Virginia Mae Fontaine. i Any one interested in working with the planning committee, or 4 who has information on any of the above class members, can call Patti Dixon, (410) 968-2187. Call for entries NEW YORK (AP) The Na-'. tional Academy of Design has issued an open call to artists for submissions to its 171st Annual Exhibition, which it describes as the oldest juried art competition in the United States.

It expects to select at least 250 works, in the categories of painting, sculpture, graphics I'l and watercolors, for the ing exhibition which will open next summer at the academy. More than $25,000 in prizes will be awarded, works may be offered for sale, and all artists t' and works will be documented in the exhibition's catalog. Any art- Yiy -'Vi in this art," Estill Curtis Pennington, Morris curator of Southern painting, said. "For example, French Impressionism, which conveyed a whole revolutionary attitude toward art, became in the South a vehicle for conveying nostalgia and an exotic sense of place. It was perfectly suited to the whole moonlight and magnolia theme." "For years, the South has been exporting great writers like Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright to the North, which then claimed them as its own.

We're now seeing that the same is true of our artists," said D. William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. "Abstract Expressionist painters from the South are not unlike Faulkner, who merged his Southern culture of storytelling in Mississippi with the stream of consciousness he discovered in the novels of James Joyce. You can change and be open to new influences without denying your patrimony," he said. 1 V'- iii.i.

nV lim Winning stamp design Wildlife and commercial artist Wally Makuchal Jr. of Girdletree recently won the 1996-97 Maryland Trout Stamp Design Contest. By TOWN COUNTRY For AP Special Features William S. Morris III has spent more than 10 years and millions of dollars establishing a museum that will showcase the art of the South. Morris, scion of a wealthy Georgia family and chief executive of the 52 newspapers and magazines of Morris Communications founded the Morris Museum of Art in his hometown of Augusta, Donna Dorian wrote in an article in the current issue of Town Country, to be "the visual-arts resource of the South." On first sight, the art of the South does not look very different from the art of other parts of the country, with the region participating in trends from portrait and landscape painting to Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism.

But there are discernible patterns in Southern art. At the simplest level, the artists of the South depict their environs, as regionalists have always done. Besides showing the land, its produce and buildings, they acknowledged and here is a second great theme the presence of blacks. In some scenes, blacks were drawn with condescension, while in others, such as Thomas Sat-terwhite Noble's "The Price of Blood" (1868), they are portrayed with tremendous dignity. Third, there is the Civil War, which Southern artists see from the perspective of a people invaded and impoverished.

"The Lost Cause" (1869), for instance, shows an infantryman's return to an empty house in ruins, his family dispersed. The museum owns more than 2,400 works of art, displayed in 10 main galleries, each of which focuses on a different "Southern" theme. Along with those already mentioned, they range from antebellum portraiture and still-life paintings to Southern Impressionism, 20th-century and contemporary works, and pieces by self-taught artists. For art historians, the most important test of a Southern painting is not that its artist is from the South. Rather, they make the distinction between painting in the South and Southern painting, and include works by artists born in the region as well as by those who have had a Southern period or a keen interest in the culture of the South.

"The opening of the Morris Museum marked the end of the first generation of research documenting what was there. Now our goal is to provide a forum for the second generation to examine the more complex issues held in Annapolis. His acrylic painting portrays a rainbow trout 1 in pursuit, ui a muyuy. nuuuciuu oisu won me rioriaa uuck Stamp Contest for 1996-97, held in Tallahassee, Fla. The oil painting depicts a pair of common golden-eye ducks swimming on calm water.

In the same Florida national contest, featuring 681 entries, Makuchal won second place with a pair of teal ducks iq flight. As in most states, Florida residents are required to purchase a state duck stamp to hunt waterfowl. Makuchal will pub; lish and distribute the stamp print throughout Florida and othef galleries nationally. 1 1 TIT 1 his time, ere a Weieht watchers tailored around you, ist resident in the United States is eligible. Submissions of entries with slides of artwork are due by March 10.

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