Upon a Hill in Tennessee
A mandala is a circle-shaped “painting” composed entirely of colored sand; it is made by Tibetan monks to recreate the path of life while serving as a focal point for…
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Dirty Boys
Earlier this year, The New York Times obituary for Harry Crews noted that his novels “out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental,…
Astronomical Adventure
The Age of Enlightenment—a period generally encompassing the middle decades of the eighteenth century—saw amazing leaps in science and discovery. Thanks to the spread of the printing press and the…
Inside the Story
…always get hit by a stray mortar. But there were very, very few journalists in combat. With the Arab Spring, all of a sudden these kids with no idea what…
Sad Song
In any history of the American music scene of the late sixties and early seventies, the name of Louisiana songwriter Charles “Butch” Hornsby, who died of leukemia in 2004, is…
“Vivid, Strange, and Reveals Much about Modern Medicine”
The 1660s saw an intense scientific race between England and France, then the two most scientifically advanced nations. The rivalry was every bit as heated and fervently nationalistic as the…
