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F:\DPF\Thursday News\Willimantic Los Dias de los Muertos # 45 Oct 28 2009\Three Windham Middle School teachers make preparations at WindhamArts for the upcoming holiday called Los Dias de la Muertos, The Days of the Dead. From the left is spanish teacher Janice Nye from Willimantic, art teacher Paula McNally from Brooklyn and, art teacher Kim Begin from Baltic. Windham Middle School eighth grade students and adults will visit the gallery on November 1st and 2nd, to experience how families from North, Central and South American countries take this occaision to remember and celebrate happy times with departed family members. Latino families customarily will visit cemetaries bringing with them the deceased's favorite foods and drink. It is a joyus time, not sad a time. Celebrants believe that during this holiday the souls of the departed return to visit the living. These two days, also known as All Souls and All Saints days originated in Mexico, 3000 years ago.\Al Malpa
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F:\DPF\Thursday News\Willimantic Los Dias de los Muertos # 45 Oct 28 2009\Three Windham Middle School teachers make preparations at WindhamArts for the upcoming holiday called Los Dias de la Muertos, The Days of the Dead. From the left is spanish teacher Janice Nye from Willimantic, art teacher Paula McNally from Brooklyn and, art teacher Kim Begin from Baltic. Windham Middle School eighth grade students and adults will visit the gallery on November 1st and 2nd, to experience how families from North, Central and South American countries take this occaision to remember and celebrate happy times with departed family members. Latino families customarily will visit cemetaries bringing with them the deceased's favorite foods and drink. It is a joyus time, not sad a time. Celebrants believe that during this holiday the souls of the departed return to visit the living. These two days, also known as All Souls and All Saints days originated in Mexico, 3000 years ago.\Al Malpa
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F:\DPF\Saturday News\Willimantic Elk Club Paranormal #10 Oct. 30, 2009.jpg\Elizabeth Sanchez, 17 of New London, and her brother Luis Rojas, 15 of Willimantic, take pictures at the same time to use each other as a check during the paranormal investigations at the Elk Lodge Friday night. They methodically went through the interior with the group and took many pictures hope to catch something paranormal.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Saturday News\Willimantic Elk Club Paranormal #9 Oct. 30, 2009.jpg\Jr. Investigators, Jacian Dunnack, 11 of Willimantic, Nick Rogerson, 12 of Pomfret, and Elias Ricard, 10 of Lebanon, peer into the screen of investigator Joe McCarthy. McCarthy, one of the investigators of PROOF, calls up sound bites, which were played for the audience at the Elks Club Friday night, which were recorded during their investigations in some of Willimantic's historical sites.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Saturday News\Willimantic Elk Club Paranormal #7 Oct. 30, 2009.jpg\The Wllimantic Elks club which was part of the paranormal investigations Friday night.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Saturday News\Willimantic Elk Club Paranormal #4 Oct. 30, 2009.jpg\This group of women check out and compare photos they took in the Elks Lodge Friday night during a paranormal tour of the building. From left to right are M-J Parnell, and Amanda Strong of Columbia, Lori Bender of Windham and Ellen Fraser of Columbia. They took many photos inside the building in the hopes of catching something paranormal.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Saturday News\Willimantic Elk Club Paranormal #3 Oct. 30, 2009.jpg\Joe Gallant, founder of PROOF, talks to the large audience at the Elks Club Friday night to prepare them for the tours they took at various historic sites in Willimantic.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Saturday News\Willimantic Elk Club Paranormal #2 Oct. 30, 2009.jpg\Joe Gallant talks spirit ettiquete at the Elks Club Friday night before people went out on the paranormal investigations at various historical sites in Willimantic.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Monday News\Storrs Carillon Player #2 Oct. 18, 2009.jpg\David Maker, Carillonneur-in-Residence at the Storrs Congregational Church demonstrates how a Carillon is played up in the steeple of the church. He performed a concert for visitors to the church Sunday after regular services for the "Welcome to Our House" celebration weekend which the church was holding. The carillon is an instrument which uses this keyboard like system to ring the bells which are above Mr. Maker in the steeple. This carillon rings 31 different bells on which Mr. Maker can play many different compositions just as one does on an organ. The carillon is actually owned by the University of Connecticut and there is a UConn Carillon Club open to anyone in the University community, information can be had at 486-3728.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Friday News\South Windham Poe #45 Oct 29 2009\On Thursday evening Edgar Allan Poe read his dark stories to a small crowd gathered at the Guilford Memorial Library in South Windham. Lou Harmon, an actor from the Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford performed the portrayal. The Center has been sponsoring traveling performances about Poe in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.\Al Malpa
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F:\DPF\Friday News\South Windham Poe #45 Oct 29 2009\On Thursday evening Edgar Allan Poe read his dark stories to a small crowd gathered at the Guilford Memorial Library in South Windham. Lou Harmon, an actor from the Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford performed the portrayal. The Center has been sponsoring traveling performances about Poe in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.\Al Malpa
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F:\DPF\Monday News\Mansfield Child with Pumpkins #1 Oct. 17, 2009.jpg\Etienne Marty, 16 months old, tries to keep the delicous bite of pumpkin bread he ate from his Dad's piece, in his mouth. He and his family went to the Cedar Ledge Tree Farm in Mansfield Saturday afternoon for a tractor ride and to pick out pumpkins. His father, Stephane Marty, did not get to eat much of the pumpkin bread once Etienne discovered how good it was. They are from Storrs.\Marie Brennan
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F:\DPF\Wednesday News\Album Spooky Halloween Sunset # 12 Oct 13 2009\Just before Halloween, the sun sets behind spooky looking woods at the Nathan Hale Forest in Coventy.\Al Malpa
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F:\DPF\Friday News\Willimantic Special Neighbors Jensen & Maynard # 222 Oct 8 2009\Standing in front of a firetruck at the Willimantic Fire Department, are soon to be retired Jim Jensen on the left and Dave Maynard on the right.\Al Malpa
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