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Year in Review, 2000: Top Sports Personalities

Golf star Tiger Woods, Olympic star Cathy Freeman, and ten other personalities who changed sports by Gerry Brown, John Gettings, & Mike Morrison Tiger Woods At the age of 25, Woods…

Louisa May Alcott: Thanksgiving

ThanksgivingThis yearly festival was always kept at Plumfield in the good old-fashioned way, and nothing was allowed to interfere with it. For days beforehand, the little girls helped Asia…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 1, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 30, 1805July 2, 1805July 1, 1805 Monday July 1st 1805. This morning I set Frazier and Whitehouse to sewing the leather on the sides of the…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 23, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 22, 1806March 24, 1806March 23, 1806 Sunday March 23rd 1806. Half after 9 A.M. Colter arrived, having killed one Elk but so distant that we…

2009 Drama Desk Awards

The Drama Desk, a group of 150 theater critics and reporters, announced the awards on May 17, 2009. Category Winner Outstanding Play: Ruined by Lynn Nottage Outstanding Musical: Billy…

Christina Rossetti: Noble Sisters

Noble Sisters'Now did you mark a falcon, Sister dear, sister dear, Flying toward my window In the morning cool and clear? With jingling bells about her neck, But what beneath her wing?…

The Celtic Twilight: By the Roadside

by W. B. Yeats Dreams That Have No MoralInto the TwilightBy the Roadside Last night I went to a wide place on the Kiltartan road to listen to some Irish songs. While I waited for the…