Eden Athletics will be offering its First Strides program for beginning runners and fitness walkers this fall.

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Cliff's Notes Word of the Week
flash companion
(flash' kəm pan'yən)

A chiefly British term for a comrade in crime or a fellow social outcast.

'Walking for sivin days!' said the young gentleman. 'Oh, I see. Beak's order, eh? But,' he added, noticing Oliver's look of surprise, 'I suppose you don't know what a beak is, my flash companion.'

From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.

U Maine at Orono starts classes today! First day of second year of grad school for me.
Do island schools start today? Ellsworth?

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Happy Birthday to Christina Butler!

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Cliffs' Notes Word of the Week

sarcophagus
(sär käf'ə gəs)

A stone coffin, especially one that's on display; an ancient Egyptian, Greek, or Roman coffin or tomb made of limestone.

A grand piano stood massively in a corner; with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a sombre and polished sarcophagus.

From Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

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Cliff's Notes Word of the Week:
shallow-pate
(shal'ō pāt')

One who lacks depth or intelligence.

There were Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, a pretty vivacious little woman in the thirties; her husband, a jovial fellow, something of a shallow-pate, who laughed a good deal at other people's witticisms, and had thereby made himself extremely popular.

From Kate Chopin's The Awakening.