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...spotted cow"; the owner offered a reward of $2. Another item, headlined PROVIDENCE, told of that town's dedication of a "Great Elm Tree" to serve as its symbolic "Tree of Liberty." While digesting these and other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1937 crash of the Hindenburg...
...chant, a restless fall breeze challenged her passivity. It begins to wander through her mind like the mourning dove's constant sad cry, its words escaping her memory. She is stirred to reach for them, her anxious searching fingers discovering only seeping sand. The canals in her mind; those channels of memory and meaning have failed here completely. Everything is suddenly flooding. A pounding chant, undammed. Where's home? Where's home...
Cappella is waiting to die, but at the same time to be reborn. He can not bear to be released from the hospital even when he is healed, and he consequently reopens his wound with a yellow number 2 pencil. When he sneaks out of the hospital to wander the city streets, he carries with him a tragic note...
...million-acre stretch of honey-colored hills. The Indians put up roadblocks around Wounded Knee in the early hours of the takeover before a contingent of U.S. marshals in turquoise jumpsuits formed a cordon about the area. Some of the people curious and foolhardy enough to wander near the stronghold were met by spurts of gunfire from the hefty Sioux arsenal. AIM Leader Russell Means, an Oglala Sioux who comes from Cleveland, announced to newsmen: "We've got the whole Wounded Knee valley, and we definitely are going to hold it until death do us part...
...preoccupation for all ages. When the room is only a barren subterranean stage for three women more or less abandoned by their husbands, it really can't be big enough for more than one of them. S.J. Bergman's one act play uses that fact as an excuse to wander through the past lives and possible futures of three working class London women who range from early middle-age to terminal...