Things - Page 34
What is left after people and places? Things. Food, factories, stories, dreams and toys are all things, but just because something is labeled a thing, doesn’t mean that it is uninteresting.
The Santa Train Delivers
What began in 1943 as a thank-you gesture from the merchants of Kingsport to their customers in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky has become as traditional as giblet gravy and cranberry salad at the Thanksgiving meal.
first appeared: 12/17/2000
Season of Traditions
Every family, every town or region, and sometimes an entire culture has its own holiday traditions that run like a river through the years and generations—always the same, always slightly different.
first appeared: 12/10/2000
Restoring America's Beacons
Creative preservation efforts coupled with environmental awareness and education are paving the way for more community involvement in the maintenance of lighthouses.
first appeared: 11/12/2000
Oldies But Goodies
Zipping through Spearfish, S.D., streets in his brightly polished 1923 Model T, Les Schuchardt draws grins and waves. He responds with a toot of the car’s exhaust whistle.
first appeared: 10/8/2000
Hometown Architecture
The real places, the places with a sense of self, are holding their own against a tide of malls and franchises—often deliberately, often by fortune.
first appeared: 8/27/2000
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