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style='font-size:12.0pt'>For Immediate Release:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Contact: Laurie Tompkins 508-457-0495 x108</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Earth
Day Coffee House at the </span></font></b><b><font size=4><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Waquoit</span></font></b><b><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Bay</span></font></b><b><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'> Reserve</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Come out on </span></font>Saturday, April 19, 2008 to the Waquoit Bay Research Reserve to celebrate Earth Day. Musical performances by
singer-songwriters John and Rachel Nicholas, Hugh O'Doherty and Denny Williams
will energize and inspire the crowd. Falmouth Academy junior, poet Maia
ten Brink will share a reading of one of her essays and a poem or two. The
setting in the old mansion on the Sargent Estate turns the Reserve’s Visitor
Center into a cozy venue with steaming hot coffee and tea and homemade
desserts, especially now that the main room has been newly redecorated with
framed original artwork as part of a yearlong celebration of the
Reserve’s twentieth anniversary.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Local favorites Rachel and John Nicholas, formerly
known as Dreamwork, have been performing together since 1989. While
individually their voices are soulful and dynamic, it is their harmony singing
that is most powerful. With warmth and humor, they share their music, their
bond to each other and their humanity with their listeners.
Denny Williams will be joining this duo on several songs, as well as performing
some of his original works. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Earth Day Coffee House has inspired Hugh O’Doherty
to write two ecologically-oriented songs, collaborate on a third, and learn and
perform other songwriters’ works that honor the Earth. His live
performances take the audience on a journey from romance to satire and from
riveting emotional issues to downright self-deprecating silliness. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maia ten Brink recently won cash prizes, for first
place at the </span></font>Broken Bridge - a national competition, as well as
the Smith College poetry contest for Massachusetts sophomore and junior girls as
well as invitations to read her poetry at Smith College and in Connecticut.
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Earth Day Coffee House is sponsored by Citizens
for the Protection of Waquoit Bay and benefits programs at the Reserve. To make
the evening more festive and appropriate for Earth Day, concertgoers will have
the opportunity to win a variety of prizes. Admission is $10.00, which includes
a WBNERR ceramic mug or $5.00 admission if you bring your own mug. Doors open
at </span></font>7:15 for the 8:00 performance. Reservations are recommended by
calling 508- 0457-0495 x108 or email laurie.tompkins@state.ma.us as seating is
limited. Reserved tickets must be picked up by 7:45. The Reserve Headquarters-Visitor
Center is located at 149 Waquoit Highway, Route 28 in East Falmouth. </p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Laurie Tompkins</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Event Coordinator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Waquoit</span></font><font size=1
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color:navy'> </span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Bay</span></font><font
size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'> National Estuarine Research Reserve</span></font></p>
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7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>P.O. Box</span></font><font size=1
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'> 3092</span></font></p>
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7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Waquoit</span></font><font size=1
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color:navy'> </span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>02536</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Tel. 508-457-0495 x108</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Fax 617-727-5537</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org">www.waquoitbayreserve.org</a></span></font></p>
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