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Like The Phoenix
Section: LIFE / LIFE AND IDEALS
Author: Amy Seidman-tighe
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/1993
Size: 678 Words, 3,896 Characters

It was five o'clock in the morning on July 11, 1991, when Mariah Woodruff woke up abruptly to loud cracking noises. She thought it must be firecrackers left over from the Fourth of July festivities.

When the glass carver looked out her bedroom window and saw smoke mingled with fog, though, she realized that the artists colony down the street was ablaze. Panic-stricken, she rushed to her studio to save her drawings, tools, glass only to be pushed away by firemen saving adjacent ...


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...tes her ability to make the quality of glass etchings she desires. Not to stifle artistic creativity, she naturally has started to explore other avenues, such as working with rocks. She has the use of a lapidary shop and not only cuts rocks and sets them, but also mines them. "I'm curious as to what else I am," she says, sensing that again it is a time to look around and to pay attention. vbcrlf

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