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60 SMITHSONIAN | March 2020 “worthless” government-owned wet- lands to those who drained them. Settlers took the land for timber ...
March 2020 | SMITHSONIAN 61 A critic praised this novel for in- troducing a new kind of heroine: “Wholesome, sen- sible, and bea ...
62 SMITHSONIAN | March 2020 LIFE RETURNS TO THE LIMBERLOST Generations after the area was swallowed up for agriculture, logging ...
March 2020 | SMITHSONIAN 63 SHE CARRIED A GUN AND WORE KHAKI BREECHES INTO THE LARGELY ROADLESS, SNAKE-FILLED LIMBERLOST SWAMPS ...
LEONARD MCCOMBE / THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES; HANK WALKER / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES; RICKY FIT ...
March 2020 | SMITHSONIAN 65 who collects moths, the Loblolly Marsh carried out a 24-hour biodiversity survey. Volunteers recorde ...
Sunrise and solitude. “To me, the Limberlost is a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel,” Stratton-Porter wrote. ...
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68 SMITHSONIAN | March 2020 Stratton-Porter’s desk at Wild- fl ower Woods Cabin holds three of her books. Michael O’Halloran out ...
March 2020 | SMITHSONIAN 69 For seven years Stratton-Porter delved into everything moth-related, and this infl uenced not only h ...
America, was enormous. She was one of the real ‘big sellers,’ her novels be- ing eagerly read and re-read by all sorts and condi ...
C onstantine the Great was the world’s first Christian Emperor. But he didn’t start out that way... Ruling from A.D. 307 to 337, ...
72 SMITHSONIAN | March 2020 IR A^ B LO CK /^ NA TIO NA L^ G EO GR AP HIC IM AG E^ C OL LE CT IO N^ the handle of the passenger-s ...
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74 SMITHSONIAN | March 2020 refused to show any damage itself, even after repeated blasts, even as it transmitted the pressures ...
C ommemorate the 75th Anniversary of the end of World War II with a complete set of 1945 U.S. coins! Your complete 5-coin set wi ...
(^) Be Glad You Waited Now Only $59 The Legendary 1904-O Morgan Silver Dollar, Brilliant Uncirculated In 1962 , the 190 4-O New ...
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Nightingale’s defenders fi red back, insist- ing that the criticism was misplaced, and the attempt failed. Meanwhile, a group in ...
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