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4CThe Jackson Sun LIVING Sunday. July 22. 2001 Author captures ballet world Two new books recall fatal N.J. shark attacks The Bookshelf triumph and, ultimately, the cost of a dancer's life. Sharp is audacious enough to use famous characters in a few of her stories, and what's more, she is talented enough to carry it off.

Witness "Don Quixote," in which she creates a heartless portrait of the aging George Bal-anchine's obsession with 17-year-old ballerina Suzanne Farrell, or "The Immortals: Margot and Rudolf 4 Ever," in which Fon-teyn and Nureyev become elegantly and poignantly entangled with one another. Sharp creates an intoxicating and competitive world in which every stage is haunted by "ghosts clustering about, begging to be remembered." By ANNE STEPHENSON The Arizona Republic "White Swan, Black Swan" by Adrienne Sharp. (Random House, $21.95) Sharp's knowledge of the ballet world (she studied dance from age 7 and trained with the Harkness Ballet in New York) combines with her confident writing style to make this a wonderful debut. There are 13 stories, but because they are all about dance and dancers, they have the sustained effect of a novel. The result is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the fanatical devotion, self-abuse, ego pandering, eroticism, style.

He takes the time to detail the way people lived in that era and what they expected from the world. His readers get to know the Vansant family well, from the father's stern visage at the table to his time in private studying the newspaper and his pride in his athletic son, Charles. Fernicola gives readers plenty on victims' backgrounds, but spends less time on family and setting, getting more quickly to the action and the efforts to protect beachgoers in its aftermath. Either book is an interesting read with a useful bibliography. Fernicola's offers a few helpful extras an index, a timeline of events and a listing of the various species of sharks and their characteristics.

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID The Associated Press There is a scene in the movie "Jaws" where the troubled mayor, played by Murray Hamilton, is discussing the crisis with Roy Schei-der, playing the sheriff. Scheider recalls that in 1916 rogue shark attacks terrorized the New Jersey shore. Now, just in time for summer beach reading, two new books detail those days of fear among the beachgoers, when four people were killed and a fifth mauled. Richard G.

Fernicola, a physician, has been researching the attacks since he was a college student in the 1980s and presents his results in "Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark and killed hotel bell captain Charles Bruder near Spring Lake. And the deadly events culminated on July 12 with the death of young Lester Stillwell in Matawan Creek. That fatality was followed by the deadly mauling of Stanley Fisher, who tried to retrieve Lester's body, and the injury of Joseph Dunn. In a nearly medieval reaction, residents took to the shore with rifles and dynamite. Two days later, a white shark was caught in Raritan Bay, and the carnage ended.

Fernicola's version of events takes the reader along on his interviews with family members and witnesses over the years, a human touch to a historical story. Capuzzo, a four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, has a polished Attacks" (Lyons Press, 330 pages, The second view comes from historian Michael Capuzzo in "Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence" (Broadway, 317 pages, Both volumes do justice to the deaths of four young men, a terror that for a time turned people's attention away from the horrors of World War then under way in Europe, and focused everyone on bloody death in the sea. The tragedies began with the July 1 killing of Philadelphia society scion Charles Vansant in the surf off Beach Haven, N.J. On July 6, the shark attacked towns. Others left the region altogether, but hung onto their roots.

"Just because there's no known family around doesn't mean it's not important to us," Parish said. ties such as hiking, boating and camping was not reason enough to take theii property. Many of the former residents moved in clusters to surrounding Group Continued from cover TUNE-UP SPECIAL $1 Q95 Includes cleaning, oil and minor adjustments Check tensions. fl Plus Parts The SINGER Store Me con 35 Carriage House Dr. Jackson, TN 668-0486 said Sylvia Canon, who along with her husband, Beale, are leaders of another LBL cemetery restoration group Rescue Our Cemeteries.

Members from both groups say they have found graves of white settlers and veterans from nearly every war, including the Revolutionary War, but also those of black slaves and Chinese immigrants who worked in the region's iron furnaces. Parish said by looking at many of the older graves it's clear there was a high infant mortality rate and that many women died during childbirth because they are buried next to an infant. The TVA mapped many of the cemeteries in the 1960s, but sometimes used identification markers such as farms or houses that were later destroyed, Beale Canon said. Rescue Our Cemeteries members have spent days looking for grave-size depressions usually facing east and west to find a cemetery because any other type of identification is long gone, Beale Canon said. Kenny Fralicx, a member of Between the Rivers, sometimes uses a dowsing rod to help find the graves.

He walks above an area where there are believed graves, and the dowsing rod, usually used for locating water, dips if there is a coffin underneath the ground, he said. Many of the former residents are still bitter that the government forced them off their land to create LBL, which was turned over to the U.S. Forest Service for management in 1999. Some feel they were portrayed in Washington as uncultured so there was justification for the project. They believe creating a recreation area now visited by 2 million people annually for activi cemeteries have died or left the region.

Only about 30 of LBL's 250 cemeteries contain more than 100 graves. More than half have fewer than 10 graves and are just small family plots. Some of the graves contain babies or small children buried near a home where the mother or a family member could keep watch, Forest Heights Methodist Weekday Child Care Is Offering An After School Program We Will Pick Up At Andrew Jackson Elementary Arlington Elementary Please Call 668-2690 To Register Or For More Info "We plan to make it as attractive and modern as possible," Miliken said. "It's almost impossible from the looks of it, but we plan to update it." Cemetery Continued from cover Summer Clearance Summer Merchandise repairmen stopped their service because Hollywood couldn't pay them. The predominantly white cemetery improved after a deceased's relative, Jack Smythe of Jackson, started a newsletter asking for contributions, Exum said.

Exum understands how Mount Olivet could have upkeep problems. "I think seeking historical status is a great idea, and I would like to hear what kind of luck they have," said Exum, Hollywood's president's for three years. "Nobody wants to give a lot of money to a cemetery, but I hope they're successful." Receiving outside funds will help the cemetery in various ways, it would be open again for relatives to visit the graves of their loved ones and have lunch there, and not just be open only on holidays, Miliken said. After meeting with Van West's staff, Jacox anticipates the cemetery will get historical status by September. "They were real excited and pleased at what they saw, and they indicated that they were pushing to do so," Jacox said.

Already on the National Register in Jackson is the old Greyhound Bus Station, 407 E. Main and the Madison County Courthouse, also on Main Street. The bus station was listed in February 1993, the courthouse in March 1995. Joe Exum, president of the 115-year-old Hollywood Cemetery on Hollywood Drive in Jackson, said his board of directors pays for upkeep through trust funds, burial fees and lot payments. The cemetery saw hard times, when its board was not strong or concerned, Exum said.

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"I think it would be great, because it's more than 100 years old," said Johnson, the cemetery gatekeeper for 12 years who was known for telling unique stories about the cemetery's deceased notables. They include Bessie Merry, a cemetery association secretary and wife of A.R. Merry, the first principal of Merry High School; educator T.R. White, for whom T.R. White Sportsplex is named; World War II veteran Toby Smith; and a host of black attorneys and doctors, said Miliken, who also has relatives buried in the cemetery.

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