O, The Oprah Magazine - September 2019

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Great British

Send-Off

If you thought Downton

Abbey had exhausted

every melodramatic plot

point (a tryst turned

deadly! amnesiacs and

abandoned brides! a

pesky...telephone

installation?), think again.

The big-screen sequel

(September 20) features

the Dowager Countess

(center), Lady Mary, and

the rest of the upstairs/

downstairs crew

preparing for royal

guests: England’s king

and queen. Shine the

silver, ring the butler—and

may God save the

Crawleys.

Supply Chain

Taking a page from the Little

Free Library playbook,

Arkansas resident

Jessica McClard

launched the first

Little Free Pantry in

2016 to provide

nonperishable food (like

granola bars) and hygiene

products (like toilet paper)

to neighbors having a hard week,

month, or life. Now nearly 650

community-based cabinets have

cropped up across the country, from Oak

Grove, Oregon, to Chatham, Virginia. Learn

how you can lend a helping hand at

littlefreepantry.org.

Paper Trail

Machines might be able to fold laundry and grocery

shop—but can they decode Susan B. Anthony’s squiggly

cursive? By the People is a crowdsourcing initiative from

the Library of Congress in which citizen archivists can

transcribe Clara Barton’s diaries, Walt Whitman’s poems,

and thousands of other handwritten documents too

indecipherable to be read by scanners. To help set the

record straight, visit crowd.loc.gov.

Street Smarts

After his little brother’s narrow miss with a speeding

car, a safety-minded fifth grader (along with a friend) in

Medford, Massachusetts, proposed a better crosswalk

inspired by similar ones in other cities. Painted to resemble a

3-D roadblock, the optical illusion signals drivers to hit the brake.

The innovative design was unveiled in April and has since popped

up outside Medford’s other elementary schools. Wise, guys!

Star Trek

Have telescope, will

travel: Dark Skies

is a guidebook for the

curious astrotourist, filled

with info on 35 stellar

stargazing sites—from

Iceland’s Jökulsárlón

glacial lake (left) to Utah’s

Natural Bridges National

Monument—plus tips

for experiencing eclipses,

auroras, and other

celestial events. Your next

dream vacation is written

in the you-know-whats.

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A WHOLE HANDFUL

OF THINGS TO CHEER

ABOUT THIS MONTH!

BY MELISSA GOLDBERG

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