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BANGOR DAILY NEWS I MONDAY APRIL 1 1 2005 I C7 Christopher Smith 'Sahara a fiery flick but no match for action classics Page C8 Marguerite Kelly Mother in a twist over sexual relationship Page C8 Camilla has American ancestry AP PHOTO BY DIANE BONDAREFF Jane Fonda poses with a copy of her autobiography "My Lite So Far" before a discussion and book signing April 5 at a Barnes A Noble bookstore in New York In the background is a poster for her new movie with Jennifer Lopez Think you're up-to-date on royal Well more to it than those lines back to Edward I William the Conqueror and St Margaret of Scotland It turns out that Camilla (Shand) Parker Bowles who married Prince Charles on Saturday has roots that are not limited to merry old England In fact some of them are Fran co-American Allen Voisine who is active in the Aroostook County Genealogical Society sent along information on Camilla's Canadian ancestry received from his cousin Patrick Voisine from Illinois It turns out that great-great grandfather was Sir Allan Napier Mac-Nab who was Canadian prime minister from 1854 to 1856 His wife Mary (Stuart) MacNab was the granddaughter of Marie-Charlotte Coursol who married Ephraim Jones of Weston Mass Coursol was the great-great-granddaughter of several sets of early Quebec ancestors: Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin married June 2 1615 St Jean de Mortagne Perche France He died May 30 1663 and she died April 16 1662 Guillaume Couillard and Guillemette Hebert Zacharie Cloutier and Xaintes Dupont married July 18 1616 St Jean de Mortagne Perche France He died Sept 17 1677 and she died July 13 1680 They came to Quebec in 1634 and are buried in Chateau Richer just above Quebec City Jean Aymard or Emard and Marie Bineau or Bureau Etienne St Pere and Madeleine Cousteau Jules Trottier and Catherine Loiseau Etienne Lafond and Marie Boucher Zacharie and Xaintes Cloutier are the ancestors of countless descendants many of whom go by the Anglicized version Clukey Like my husband Camilla is descended from Zacharie and Xaintes' son (Pierre) Zacharie Cloutier and wife Madeleine Emard From that couple my husband descends from Rene Cloutier who married Eliza beth Leblanc Camilla's ancestor is sister Genevieve Cloutier who married Louis Guillet dit Saint Mars Based on their shared ancestry of Pierre Zacharie and Madeleine Cloutier my husband and Camilla are ninth cousins See Ties Page C9 BY H1LLEL ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jane Fonda looks back at her life says looking weary but game on a Monday morning having just flown in a few hours before from Florida is not just my story" Life So Far" is her first memoir although it seems as if Fonda has been writing one all along living out the most public of narratives over the past 40 years with millions watching her evolution from the ingenue of "Tall Story" to the sex bomb of to her radical activism of the late 1960s and 1970s to her workout tapes and her marriage to media giant Ted Turner The decision to write a memoir can be as crude as needing the money or in Fonda's case as deep as acknowledging that you live forever Fonda says she first thought of the book as she neared age 60 what she calls the start of third act" not dress rehearsal" she says "This is it And for me to understand what my third needs to be I have to understand my first two arts I realized there was a line that runs through my life a pretty clear line that runs through a lot of women and Her memoir looks to make sense See Fonda Page C9 Tane Fonda is 67 fresh into the "third of a life that could be reviewed as melodrama farce and guerrilla theater as if devised by a collaboration among Eugene Neil Simon and Jean-Luc Godard She is single a Christ ian" a liberal who loved Fahrenheit 9-11" and a sentimentalist who still cries when she watches "On Golden Pond" She is fashionable in dark mt DW il rFJl Dll slacks boots and a patterned blouse wrr I I AVH her hair a spiky tangle of brown and blond She is organized planning to live to 90 regularly checking e-mail on her brand-new Blackberry She has made her first movie in 15 years in a comedy with Jennifer Lopez that she thinks will succeed but will not be devastated if it She has also written a memoir Life So Far" which she will succeed and would be devastated if it doesn't think an important she Machias telegrapher announced the news Celebs reveal on their nightstands Former librarian compiles favorite reads boys still gallivanted through the streets of Bangor and other cities delivering important epistles containing the vicissi tuck of mankind transmitted from around the world through A century ago hundreds of Mainers had recent ly installed telephones in their homes The Bangor Daily News regularly published short stories and photographs of the Hello Girls the operators who greeted all callers and made the proper connections For example the trio of the skill of operators tapping out the code invented by Samuel Morse on a single key One of these wizards of the wire was Flavius Moore of WAYNE REILLY list released to coincide with National Library Week runs the gamut from consumer activist Ralph Nader to major league pitcher Barry Zito Nader was one of three who included Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain on his list which also included a selection of heavier books such as Standard Oil Company" by Ida Tar-bell But the former presidential candidate was tight with his words of literary praise offer ing none in his response to Nowell Oakland Athletics hinder Zito was nearly as frugal with his praise offering a single word when describing his reaction to the spiritualist Mind" by Earnest Holmes Scripps Howard columnist See Books Page C9 Houlton Hello Girls in 1905 included Mrs Dickinson chief operator for the White Mountain Telephone Co and Miss Mabel Dow assistant operator The third however was not a girl Arthur Bubar a student at Ricker Classical Institute was the night operator a job in which he doubtlessly had lots of time to do his BY GLENN ADAMS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GARDINER Celebrities sidled toward specialized somewhat abstruse subjects and Huck Finn as they listed their favorite books for 2005 says the originator of the annual ids list esoteric this year" said Glenna Nowell who started the celebrity reading list in 1988 when she was librarian in this small southern Maine city such a diversity of books and not well-known not best sellers Nowell also notices a lot of nonfiction this year The list which Nowell compiles to invigorate interest in reading has drawn responses in past years from several US presidents and otter world leaders athletes actors and authors This Machias a pioneer of telegraphy in Maine After 50 years over the key in Washington County he had retired two years before The Bangor Daily News finally got around to sending a reporter Down East to interview him homework But while the telephone was causing all the excitement an older form of mass communication the telegraph remained an important part of the nation communication network A troop of messenger doubtlessly thinking the telegraph operator might be driven into extinction by the Hello Girls See Pedly Page C9 AP PHOTO BY TONES HAflBEHT Retired librarian Glenna Nowell pose with a stack of books recommended by celebrities tor her ennuel Reads What hat in Gardiner.