Our National Pastime thrived on legend until Jim Bouton toppled the pedestals. Was that Mickey Mantle pinch hitting with a hangover?

WITS, BOOK-ISHThe AtticMay 8, 2020Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1960s Comments

IF YOU CAN READ THIS...

That teacher you had? The one who “got” you? Did you ever thank THAT teacher?

teachersThe AtticMarch 26, 2020Tteachers, Teaching Comments

"THE MOST AMERICAN THING" -- CHAUTAUQUA

From a small summer gathering on a remote lake, Chautauqua tapped America’s “hunger of mind.”

teachersThe AtticMarch 20, 2020Chautauqua, 19th century America Comments

THE LITTLE TRAMP AND HIS MASTERPIECE

Silent film was dead. Scandal tainted his career. His mother died. The Depression began. And Charlie Chaplin made “City Lights.”

LESLIE MARMON SILKO -- THE STRENGTH OF STORIES

Like Thought Woman of Laguna lore, Leslie Marmon Silko dreams whole worlds of reality and myth.

EYES ON OUR EAGLES

Once endangered, bald eagles are back! And from coast to coast, webcams are watching.

DREAMERSThe AtticMarch 7, 2020Eagles, American eagles, Bald Eagles, Eagle nests, Webcams Comment

M*A*S*H* -- THE MOVIE THAT SPOKE TRUTH TO WAR

A half century ago, Hollywood was still fighting World War II. Then came M*A*S*H.

REBELS, ATTIC AT THE MOVIESThe AtticFebruary 11, 2020M*A*S*H, Robert Altman, Vietnam War, 1970s movies Comment

THE (BLACK) WOMAN WHO MANAGED MORGAN'S MILLIONS

From “behind the curtain of my mind,” the fabulous Belle da Costa Greene masterminded the Morgan Library.

Women, HEROESThe AtticFebruary 4, 2020Belle DaCosta Greene, J.P. Morgan, Morgan library, passing race Comments

PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT!

Four score and 12 years ago, a unique candidate ran a unique campaign. We miss Pat Paulsen for President.

IMAGINATION IN A BOX -- THE MYSTERIES OF JOSEPH CORNELL

Boxed in by life, Joseph Cornell sent his imagination soaring beyond Utopia Parkway

ART-ISHThe AtticJanuary 22, 2020Joseph Cornell, American art, Cornell box, MoMA Comment

A NEW DEAL FOR WOMEN -- THE SHE-SHE-SHE

When her husband’s CCC put men to work, Eleanor Roosevelt asked “What about the women?”

REBELSThe AtticJanuary 16, 2020FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, She She She Camps, New Deal, Great Depression Comments

PAUL FARMER -- THE MAN WHO WOULD CURE THE WORLD

Poverty = disease. The harsh lesson he learned in Haiti led Paul Farmer to a remarkable life of healing.

THE HEALERSThe AtticJanuary 14, 2020Paul Farmer, Partners in Health, Haiti, Community health Comments

THE FANTASTIC VOYAGE OF "VOYAGER"

The moon shots were history. Americans were jaded about space. And then a little spacecraft just kept going and going and going. . .

WONDERSThe AtticJanuary 9, 2020Voyager, Carl Sagan, Space, Jupiter, Saturn, JPL Comments

WALT WHITMAN, SOLDIERS' MISSIONARY

As Washington DC filled with wounded soldiers, America’s “good, gray poet” reached out to humanize the savagery of war.

THE HEALERSThe AtticJanuary 3, 2020Walt Whitman, Civil War Comment

THE FIRST "FIRST RESPONDER"

Called to heal, to help, Martha Ballard became one of history’s unsung first responders — a midwife.

THE HEALERSThe AtticDecember 17, 2019Motherhood, midwifery, A Midwife's Tale, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Comments

THE MASTER OF LIGHT

Obsession led Albert Michelson to chase the speed of light, but he had another reason. Why study light? “Because it’s so much fun!”

WONDERSThe AtticDecember 13, 2019Speed of Light, Physics, Light, Albert Michelson Comments

KINDER, COOLER, SMARTER

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