Think April is “the cruelest month?” E.E. Cummings will cure your despair.

wholly to be a fool

 while Spring is in the world

For a full year, poet Ross Gay focused on things that delight him. The result: The Book of Delights. You need this now.

Martin Gardner was interested in everything and made everything interesting.

While the nation watched, Barbara Jordan stepped out of the Jim Crow past to defend democracy.

Photography was anything but instant before Edwin Land made a magic camera called Polaroid.

Through the worst seasons of TV’s “wasteland,” Rod Serling brought intelligence and irony to “the boob tube.”

The deep ocean remained a mystery until William Beebe and his Bathysphere found new depths.

When a nine-year-old girl asked about trading cards, her mother and aunt got busy. And “Supersisters” went viral.

In 1833, when fire and brimstone lit the sky, most Americans trembled. But a few turned to “the lights of science.”

On the eve of 1880, Thomas Edison threw a New Year’s party unlike any before or since. Let there be light!

Folks in Jericho, Vermont thought the Bentley boy was crazy to be out in the snow. Then they saw his photos.

Critics scoffed but Amory Lovins has stayed on “the soft path” to renewable energy.

Drafted into the Cold War, Cavendish gave Alexander Solzhenitsyn what he’d never had — a home.

Like citadels against modernity, 19 shacks stand on the edge of America. Can they survive?

Obsolete, old-fashioned, vinyl records went into history’s dustbin. And then. . .