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Romance Blooms
Fri., Feb. 11, 2011 | Lisa BlackburnLooking for the perfect place to woo your sweetheart? There's no need to look any further than The Huntington. Whether your idea of a perfect date is discussing the romance of Shakespeare's plays, sipping a cup of jasmine tea overlooking a Chinese lake
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EXHIBITIONS | Frame by Frame
Fri., Feb. 11, 2011 | Sean HanrahanNext month, a new exhibition featuring the work of California sculptor John Frame opens at The Huntington. "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" will include sculptural figures
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A Camellia Lover's Paradise
Tue., Feb. 8, 2011 | Lisa BlackburnWhen many parts of the country are blanketed by snow, the winter landscape at The Huntington is covered with camellias. The Camellia Collection includes nearly 80 different species
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EXHIBITIONS | Video: John Frame MMVI - MMXI
Tue., Feb. 8, 2011 | Sean HanrahanFilmmaker Johnny Coffeen explores the artist's process in this 8-minute film, scored by John Frame. It will be presented in the exhibition with Frame's own stop-motion animation film featuring his handmade characters.
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Chinese New Year Family Festival
Wed., Feb. 2, 2011 | Lisa BlackburnIn Chinese culture, the most important of all holidays is Chinese New Year. It begins on the first day of the first month according to the lunar calendar (Feb. 3 this year), and the festivities continue for several weeks thereafter.
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Historical Records in Motion
Fri., Jan. 28, 2011 | Matt StevensWhen The Huntington launched the online version of the Early California Population Project (ECPP) in the summer of 2006, historian Steven Hackel said that the comprehensive database of the sacramental registers
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"Several Lives in One"
Tue., Jan. 25, 2011 | Matt StevensIf you haven't yet decided to attend David Blight's lecture tonight in Friends' Hall, you might listen to the podcast of the talk he gave at The Huntington a couple years ago. Blight is an engaging and eloquent speaker on all topics related to the Civil War.
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Nature's Helping Hands
Thu., Jan. 20, 2011 | Lisa BlackburnUnder a brilliant blue sky one recent morning, a group of volunteers donned their sun hats, pulled on sturdy gloves, and took up their secateurs to tackle one of the thorniest jobs at The Huntington: pruning more than 3,500 rose bushes.







