LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jane Alexander: New York
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Compiled by popular holistic health writer Jane Alexander (Spirit of the Home, The Energy Secret), this hefty volume explains and details just about every holistic, New Age spiritual and complementary therapy and practice currently in use. Divided in to five main sections--Fundamental Principles; Body; Mind and Emotions; Soul; The Therapies--the book details within each section the theory and practice of nearly every alternative therapy available. Alexander takes care to explain simply, yet thoroughly, the foundations of each therapy or practice and its applications. Numerous boxes and sidebars explain w hat a patient can expect from a typical session of each therapy, and there's ... information about locating practitioners and sourcing materials.
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Jane Alexander has returned to the New York stage in What of the Night, a one-woman show about author Djuna Barnes. The piece, which opened at the Lucille Lortel on April 6, is based on Barnes' writings and was created for the stage by Alexander, director/choreographer Birgitta Trommler and Noreen Tomassi. Were critics impressed by the production?
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Alexander Turner was born about 1839 in Harrisburg, Lewis Co., New York to Jeremiah and Zelia Turner. October 14, 1860, he married Jane Elizabeth Lawrence who was born in Jefferson, New York November 8, 1833. He enlisted October 8, 1861 and fought in the Civil War with Company G 14th Wisconsin Infantry, but was discharged on a surgeon's certificate after his first year of service. He later reenlisted with the 37th Infantry and was wounded at Petersburg during the Appomattox Campaign and later died of those wounds. Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant's Army did defeat General Robert E. Lee's troops while defending Fort Gregg. Grant had achieved one of the major military objectives of the war: the capture of Petersburg, which led to the fall of Richmond, the Capitol of the Confederacy and the death of this Wisconsin Soldier.
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Alexander met her first husband, Robert Alexander, in the early 1960s in New York City, where both were pursuing acting careers. They had one son, Jace, born in 1964, and the couple divorced a few years later. Alexander had been acting regularly in various regional theaters when she met producer/director Edwin Sherin in Washington, DC, where he was serving as the artistic director at Arena Stage. The two became good friends and, once divorced from their respective spouses, became romantically involved, marrying in 1975. Between the two they have four children, Alexander's son, Jace, a television director, and Sherin's three sons, Tony, Geoffrey, and Jon... from a previous marriage.[2]
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