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	Ruth Park -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When she was told a writer, the woman suggested she'd be happier as a servant.) Ruth Park claims that she was involved in the Queen Street riots with her father.
		Ruth Park won the Miles Franklin Award for Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977), the Boston Globe Award for Playing Beatie Bow (1980), and was awarded the 1993 Lloyd O'Neil Magpie Award for services to the Australian book industry.
		She claims to be a descendant of Dr (Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)) Mungo Park, the African explorer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/ruth_park.htm (465 words)

	Ministry of Environment - Ruth Lake
		Ruth Lake is a recreational day use area popular with local residents for fishing and swimming.
		The remainder of the park is undeveloped forest above the lake.
		Ruth Lake is a popular spot for fishing for trout.
	wlapwww.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/ruthlake.htm (437 words)

	Benson Park Part of Early History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The acreage for the park was a pie shaped wedge in the middle of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 SE/4) of Section 31, Township 10 North, Range 4 East of the Indian Meridian, Pottawatomie County.
		The home place was named the “Bird’s Nest.” Ruth recalls that she and her youngest sister would walk down the lane north of the house through Benson Park and over a stile and then wait for her parents to catch up on the way to church.
		Ruth remembers the incident so well because that very night while sitting in the front row of seats at the rodeo the cowboy was bucked off his bronc, stomped and killed right before her eyes.
	www.tecumsehok.com /history/bensonpark.htm (3152 words)

	Ruth Peeler
		She was on the Board of Directors of the National Conference on State Parks and so was aware of the progress being made in developing state park systems elsewhere in the country.
		She was invited by the Park Committees in both the house and senate to advise them during the session.
		She persuaded the legislature to increase the revenue for parks derived from drivers’ licenses from 10% to 40% and to increase the driver’s license fee to $3 which resulted in additional $1.2 million each biennium.
	www.rpts.tamu.edu /pugsley/Peeler.htm (926 words)

	Australian Authors - Ruth Park
		Ruth Park was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1922.
		"This is how Ruth Park begins the first volume of her autobiography, written as vividly as any of her novels; a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years.
		Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education enouraged her love of words and writing and the bitter years of the Depression exposed her to poverty and injustice.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/authors/parkr.html (1083 words)

	Ruth Park author page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ruth Park has a passion for Sydney, for its history, its characters and its moods.
		She has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New South Wales and in 1996 she was named as a friend of the National Library for her services to Australian writing.
		In November 2003, Duffy and Snellgrove will publish a new format reprint of Ruth Park's Sydney, her classic history of the city.
	www.duffyandsnellgrove.com.au /authors/park_ruth.htm (163 words)

	Lumber Queen - Ellen C. Anderson
		Ruth Park was a tough New Hampshire Yankee who graduated from Vassar College in 1906 and then became a logging boss.
		The Park family business had fallen on hard times, and Ruth alone of the Park children was free to help.
		"[Ruth Park] merits special attention because she was the only lady logger in the United States who swung an axe, handled a cant-dog, drove team, and ran her own camps.
	moosecountry.com /lumbqn.html (152 words)

	Seashore Park Is Rededicated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HAMPTON — After a 36-year wait, the Ruth G. Stimson Seashore Park was rededicated — and the Hampton woman for whom it is named was honored — at a special ceremony which took place at the park’s scenic location near Plaice Cove.
		Taken on by the garden club as a two-year civic beautification project, the park underwent an extensive clean up, which ranged from the use of heavy equipment to move rocks, to a generous amount of sand-raking by club members.
		During her remarks, Moore noted that in mid-1965, a vote taken at town meeting expressed voter approval to change the name of the park to Ruth G. Stimson Seashore Park, in recognition of the guest of honor’s dedication to the project.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/parks/seashorepark.htm (668 words)

	Babe Ruth - Short Porch - Baseball Fever
		Ruth was the first to hit a ball clear out of Old Comiskey Park.I believe he did it in 1927,just after the upper deck was built increasing the seating capacity to around 50,000.
		Ruth's 9 home runs at home were one shy of being enough to lead the AL in total homers for the entire year.
		Ruth, who had already broken the home run record before Chapman's death, helped usher in the new era by showing the baseball world that home runs were possible.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?threadid=12042 (5283 words)

	PARK, Ruth
		PARK, Ruth (1917–), novelist, autobiographer and children’s writer, was born and educated in New Zealand but has spent much of her adult life in Australia and has written extensively on both countries.
		After the death of Niland in 1967 Park moved to London for some time, but later returned to Sydney and then, in 1973, moved to Norfolk Island, where she has lived ever since.
		Ruth Park has also had a considerable career as the author of children’s books.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/parkruth.html (1279 words)

	Simonian Little League ADN Articles
		Park lovers saw the use of even a small portion of what city officials say is a 3,600-acre-plus park as another effort to chip away at a city treasure.
		It was envisioned that the upper or east side of the park be kept in a wilderness state, the central third would be only used for trail use, and that most park development be confined to the edges of the park on the west and south.
		Far North Bicentennial Park (Park) was created in 1976, with a vision to preserve the land, waters, and wildlife habitat within its borders in a pristine condition while allowing for compatible recreational use.
	www.kidsneedparks.org /simADN.htm (15660 words)

	BOOKORPHANAGE BOOKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a teenager, Ruth wrote contributions to the children's pages on the New Zealand newspapers and, after completing her schooling, commenced work as a proof-reader with the 'Auckland Star'.
		Ruth submitted a manuscript, Harp in the South, to a Sydney newspaper competition held in 1946 and won the £2,000 first prize.
		Ruth Park and D'Arcy Niland's careers as writers were by this time firmly established.
	www.bookorphanage.com /park.html (726 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three parks representatives came to the meeting without a plan to restore the park, but asked for the Lions to provide them with a short and long term proposal for taking it over.
		The decision to remove the park facilities in the first place was a government decision based on lack of revenue from the parks.
		Ruth Lake Provincial Park has been in Class A, a recreational site funded by the government, Class B reduces the government protection of the park and allows for increased development potential, Fee Simple is when the land is removed from the parks system and into private hands.
	www.homestead.com /forestgrovebc/files/News_May_7_03.txt (714 words)

	Wilkes University - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ruth came through on the promise and actually paid a visit to Sylvester on October 11, one day prior to his historic home run at Artillery Park.
		Ruth came to the Wyoming Valley on October 12, to take part in an exhibition game between Hughestown and Larksville.
		Ruth also claimed that it was the farthest ball he ever hit.
	www.wilkes.edu /admissions/adm_news_story.asp?iNewsID=2362 (709 words)

	Golf Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The nine-hole Ruth Park Golf Course serves the University City golfing public and is open to non-residents as well.
		The annual ID card can be purchased at the Heman Park Recreation Facility (7210 Olive St. Rd.) for $5 per person ($2.50 for senior citizens).
		Ruth Park PGA golf professional and staff will provide instruction for young adults 6-17 of age in rules and etiquette of golf, and short and long game skills.
	www.ucitymo.org /golf.htm (367 words)

	Puffin at Penguin Books Australia - Author Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in New Zealand in 1923, Ruth Park spent her early childhood in a remote part of the North Island.
		Ruth Park has written over 50 books including 10 novels and 27 children's books, as well as radio, film and television scripts, and several travel and educational works.
		Ruth Park also received the 1993 Lloyd O'Neil Magpie Award for services to the Australian book industry.
	www.penguin.com.au /PUFFIN/Authors/author-profile.cfm?AuthorId=0000001418 (183 words)

	Published Books by Rafe Champion with varied subjects.
		Ruth Park has written a richly researched portrait of Sydney, packed with accounts of stirring events and fascinating people, from the time the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour.
		Ruth produced a guidebook on Sydney in 1973 and I had the immense good fortune to work with her, helping to bring the book up to date after 25 years of frantic demolition and rebuilding of Sydney.
		In the 1950s, Niland (named after Darcy) began to interview people who had been close to the young man. The search continued when Niland and Ruth Park retraced Darcy's steps in the United states, from New York to Memphis, where he died in May 1917.
	www.the-rathouse.com /pubbooks.html (484 words)

	CAC Manuscripts: MS 591
		The papers of Ruth Park were donated and transferred to the Center for Archival Collections on December 12, 1990.
		J.A. Park) and her daughter Mary Esther Park were a mother and daughter active in the Camp Fire Girls organization in the Columbus, Ohio area.
		The material associated with Ruth Webb Park and her daughter, Mary Esther Park document the typical activities of the Camp Fire Girls organization on the level of both the participant and adult leader.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cac/ms0591.html (494 words)

	The DIS Discussion Forums - Andru's Florida '05 Trip Report: Day 7 : From Dawn ‘til Dusk — MGM & Magic Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parked easily at MK and took a tram ride to the monorail and were inside the main gates by 16:15.
		Ruth and the children decided against riding as they wanted to get their fleeces from the locker so I rode alone.
		As soon as I came off splash I spoke to Ruth on the phone who said she was making her way towards Pirates of the Caribbean, a real family favourite.
	www.disboards.com /showthread.php?t=754943 (3907 words)

	ABC Shop - Fence Around the Cuckoo Ruth Park
		Ruth Park spent her childhood in isolated rainforests in New Zealand, followed by a convent education and then bitter years during the Depression when she was exposed to poverty and injustice.
		Park writes vividly and with passion, and this first volume of her autobiography, will take the reader back to her early days.
		Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to take a job as a journalist.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=235769 (191 words)

	Southerly: Stages of development: remembering Old Sydney in Ruth Park's Playing Beatie Bow and A Companion Guide to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		RUTH PARK'S Playing Beatie Bow (1980) can easily be read as a bildungsroman, a novel of self-development or apprenticeship.
		Falling between the "child" and the "Young Adult" category, it is the story of an adolescent girl who comes to terms with the part she plays in a family romance.
		However, in tension with this thematic of personal and cultural progression is Park's exploration of the contradictory role that the fetish plays in a female...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:134534756&refid=ip_almanac_hf (236 words)

	About Our League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hyde Park Babe Ruth is a non-profit organization that teaches young children the game of baseball, along with sportsman ship.
		Any boy or girl meeting the requirement's as to the age and residence as set forth in the rules of Babe Ruth Baseball shall be eligilbe to compete for particiapation in Hyde Park Babe Ruth League.
		Any adult meeting the requirements as set forth in the rules of Babe Ruth Baseball shall be eligible as an active member of Hyde Park Babe Ruth League.
	hydeparkbaseball.tripod.com /HYDEPARK/id1.html (117 words)

	Ruth Inman Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is also the location of 2 bus stops on the RT line.
		This park was named after Ruth Inman a long time North Highlands resident who was actively involved in the Garden Club, the planting of trees up and down Watt Avenue and the overall beautification of North Highlands.
		It is the Garden Club who regularly plant bedding plants in the small bedding area and who maintain the adjacent rose garden.
	www.nhrpd.org /facilities/ruthinman.html (119 words)

	Pittsfield to ponder 3 grant proposals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Hathorn Park, an informational kiosk is planned, along with park benches, picnic tables, walkway improvements, tree plantings and raised flower beds.
		The grant would provide for a 28-acre expansion of the park, increasing water and sewer service, and adding underground three-phase power.
		Ruth said a draft of the state Community Development Block Grant for technical assistance with the Community Center Project will be available at Tuesday's council meeting.
	www.pittsfield.org /news_2003/020403_grants.htm (505 words)

	California State Parks
		The new policy calls upon recreational providers across the state to take a bold direction and exercise a leadership role in ensuring that a full range of stimulating, enjoyable and safe recreation experiences are available to their constituents.
		California State Parks announced on Friday, July 22, 2005, that a new public-private partnership with the 5.11 Tactical Company, one of the largest uniform and equipment suppliers in the nation, has provided State Parks with 27,500 new insignia patches for uniformed personnel within State Parks.
		The change to the new patches is part of State Park Director Ruth Coleman’s initiative to adopt a standard identification insignia for all official uses, such as uniforms, letterheads, signs, documents, vehicles and more.
	www.parks.ca.gov (826 words)

	Swimming Pool Park in Tooele Utah
		You will see it on the right hand side of the street.One of the greatest features of the swimming pool park is the Pratt Aquatic Center.
		The swimming pool park is an ideal place to be physically active.
		The perimiter of the park provides an excellent place for walking.
	www.beactivetooele.org /Parks/Swimming_Pool.html (189 words)

	Hyde Park Babe Ruth Baseball
		This website will introduce people to Hyde Park Babe Ruth Baseball and keep members informed with all information that is going on within the league.
		It must be understood by parents as well as all volunteers that competitveness will be automatically generated in a natural form by all of the participants both players and fans.
		Babe Ruth Baseball is dedicated to helping children become better citizens within their own community.
	hydeparkbaseball.tripod.com /HYDEPARK (184 words)

	The Green Center > Outdoor Spaces > Ruth Park Woods
		The 26 acre Ruth Park Woods is the last large stand of an oak/hickory hardwood forest in the St. Louis area.
		Located right in the heart of the metropolitan area, it is an oasis for avid bird lovers.
		* Ruth Park Woods is open to the public and located at 1100 McKnight Road in University City.
	www.thegreencenter.org /outdoor_spaces/ruth_park_woods (181 words)

	Elton Park in Tooele Utah
		The park is located at 400 North Broadway.
		There is plenty of parking on the east side.
		Kids of all ages love both the playgrounds and surrounding areas in the park.
	www.beactivetooele.org /Parks/Elton.html (170 words)

	Ruth Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ruth Park (Published in Ruth Park's "Harp in the South" Novels, Penguin Books, 1987):
		She drifted in and began handing around cups of tea, gobbling a tomato sandwhich meantime, for love had not affected her appetite.
		It was two bottle of the cheapest, most potent port, which he had bought out of the remains of the six pounds he had earned the previous week when the Council, out of the carity of its heart, had put old-age pensioners to a week's sweeping of paths and weeding of parks.
	f2.org /humour/quotes/fic/ruth-park.html (2198 words)

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