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August/September 1980

13 years ago By admin

Volume

31

Issue

5

THE RILED BUNCH THE STUART SOLUTION THOMAS ALVA EDISON AND THE CONCRETE PIANO AND WHO WOULD WANT TO BADGER JOHN L. SULLIVAN? THE CATTON VIEW

Stories published from "August/September 1980"

The Great Earthquake

Authored by: Jourdan Houston

When The Great Earthquake struck New England, learned men blamed everything from God’s wrath to an overabundance of lightning rods in Boston. Two hundred and twenty-five years later, geologists are at last discovering the true causes.

The Conundrum Of Corn

Authored by: Joseph Kastner

It’s our most important, profitable, and adaptable crop—the true American staple. But where did it come from?

Do We Care If Johnny Can Read?

Authored by: Anthony Brandt

Americans first learned to read to save their souls, then to govern themselves. Now the need is not so clear.

War Correspondent, 1864: The Sketchbooks Of James E. Taylor

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

When old James E. Taylor exercised his powers of near-total recall to set down memories of the Shenandoah campaign, he left us a unique record of a very new, very hazardous profession

Barataria

Authored by: Frederick Turner

With astonishing tenacity, the people of the rich river-mouth region of the Mississippi have remained what and where they are through two and a half centuries

Four!

Authored by: Red Smith

It was fifty years ago that Bobby Jones won his Grand Slam, making him the only man who ever has—or probably ever will—conquer the “Impregnable Quadrilateral” of golf

The America’s Cup Challenge — 1903

Authored by: Jane Colihan

“They tell me I have a beautiful boat,” said the challenger, Sir Thomas Lipton. “What I want is a boat to lift the Cup.”

Delmonico’s

Authored by: Peter Andrews

The restaurant that changed the way we dine—

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