AMERICA'S FAVORITE FOOTPATH -- THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine, the A.T. is a culture on foot, with its own “trail magic.”
WALKING NYC -- EVERY LAST STREET
Coast-to-coast? Done that. So Matt Green set out to walk New York. Every borough. Every street. Every pier and park. Eight years and 8,000 miles later. . . (As seen in “The World Beneath My Feet.”)
TRACY K. SMITH -- DOWN ROADS NOT TAKEN
For two years, America’s poet laureate reached out to the nation. The nation reached back.
IS SEX NECESSARY?
At the end of the Freud-filled 1920s, James Thurber and E.B. White launched their careers with a silly question and a spoof.
WALKING AMERICA WITH THE MASTER
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking.” — Thoreau
WHEN I MET THE CODE TALKERS
GALLUP, NEW MEXICO — Face-to-face with honor and a Navajo tradition of silence.
WALKING AMERICA: THE LONGEST JOURNEYS
Walking, American style, is often a coast-to-coast journey. But it isn’t about the feet.
LIFE AND LIFE SENTENCES
When Will Durant asked the wise about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.
THE EARTH'S QUIRKY CATALOG
From a rooftop vision to a counterculture bible, Stewart Brand sowed the seeds of several revolutions.
FOOTBALL'S MADCAP "MAD DUCK"
You may think football a grim sport, but meet Alex Karras, "a clown with a fine sense of timing." And, BTW, Hitler's husband.
OGDEN NASH -- MASTER OF PACE AND RHYME
No verse was too light, no rhyme was too impossible for Ogden Nash.
"NETWORK" -- MORE THAN JUST “MAD AS HELL”
“Network" did not predict populist anger -- it foresaw a network using anger to boost ratings. Sound familiar?
STEVE GOODMAN -- GOOD MORNIN' AMERICA
“Every audience was his,” Kris Kristofferson said, but no one knew Steve Goodman’s sad secret.
PHILADELPHIA BURNING -- THE ABOLITIONIST WEDDING
When the Northern groom married the Southern bride, the bond was love. And a fight for freedom.
FREDERIC CHURCH -- THE FINEST EYE
Fresh from the Hudson River School, Frederic Church stunned America with “Niagara,” then set his vision in stone.
JAIME ESCALANTE AND THE CALCULUS OF HOPE
Students called Jaime Escalante “Kimo.” He called them his “burros.” But the key to his success was ganas — the drive to succeed. (As seen in “Stand and Deliver.”)