Issue
August/September 1982, Volume 33, No.5
Featured Articles
The Agony of the Indianapolis
Author: Kenneth E. Ethridge
She was the last major American warship sunk during World War II, and her sinking was the single worst open-sea disaster in our naval history. How could it have happened?
Match Safes
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Once you’ve discovered fire, you have to keep it from burning you. This is how it was managed before the safety match.
Genealogy The Search For A Personal Past
Author: Peter Andrews
A once laughable pursuit is now seen by historians as a serious way to explore where we came from and who we are
Catawba Chronicle
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A contemporary artist re-creates two and a half centuries of the life of a North Carolina county
The Best Background
Author: Judson Hale
When it comes to genealogical pride, there’s nothing to equal the modest satisfaction of a slightly threadbare, socially impregnable New Englander. A canny guide to the subtle distinctions of America’s most rarefied society.
Life With My Ancestors
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Putting Worms Back In Apples
Author: Walter Karp
In reconstructing the past, Old Sturbridge Village is doing a lot more than selling penny candy and buggy rides. Struggling for verisimilitude, curators are raising scrawny chickens, trudging behind 150-year-old plows—and keeping pesticides out of the orchards.
Meet Me In St. Lewis, Louie
Author: Emily Hahn
A collection of little-known early-twentieth-century photographs of St. Louis recalls the author’s unfashionably happy childhood
Whistling Women
Author: Daniel H. Resneck
How a young New York society matron named Alice Shaw dazzled English royalty with her extraordinary embouchure