Fiona Apple. Daughter of former singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. She was classically trained as a pianist as a child and began composing songs when she was eight years old. She crafted a demo tape while in Los Angeles finishing High School.
The Miramichi Fire. (A View of Miramichi, 1760, oil painting by Francis Swaine) These blazes whipped up into a firestorm during a dry summer in Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick in October 1825, charring a massive 3 million acres and taking out settlements along the Miramichi River.
Three fires are burning in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. The largest is the Green Fire at nearly 1,000 acres. About 130 firefighters are battling the fire. The state's largest fire so far this summer is the Hardluck Fire in the Shoshone National Forest. It has burned more than 24 square miles.