Description
Contents: The View from the Castle: Secretary Ripley recalls how Smithsonian Institution has worked to eocompass the achievement of American art, Phenomena, comment and notes by James K. Page, Letters to the Editor, Around the Mall and beyond by Edwards Park, John D. Rockefeller 3rd’s personal and distinctive American art collection makes debut in San Francisco, New York 1924: the City itself and Madison Square Garden, the setting for a Democratic disaster, Green Wood, fashionable cemetery with a view, is as near to paradise as one can get in Broklyn, N.Y., Novelist and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter’s crusade to portray spirit of the Limberlost, The ups and downs of Deep Scattering Layers in the open ocean – almost invisible but teeming with exotic fish, Lure of discovery for Argonauts, Renaissance man, astronauts, Thirst is not the only hazard Bushman herders encounter in dramatic cattle trek across the Kalahari Desert, Misericords – naughty notions in holy places, Old-time pickin’ and playing – down-home Virginia traditions kept alive by a famous music family, New interest in an old folk art, weathervanes
Issue: April 1976
Condition: Very Good