September 1989
In This Issue
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Articles
Brigadoon, USA
A visit to an archetypal Vermont town
With the Rebels
River Song
Other People's Trades
Silk Road
The Gold Ball
Devil's Advocates: The Unnatural History of Lawyers
A Knife at the Opera
The Vanderbilt Era
Timeless Towns and Haunted Places
Acrostic No. 50
The Puzzler
Word Histories
Etymologies derived from the files of The Dictionary of American Regional English
The September Almanac
Notes: The Tithe
Doing the right thing by posterity
Agriculture: The Best Banana Bred
New hybrids may save the banana industry from destructive diseases
Newfoundland: Tuning the Rig
Latitude 50° N. Longitude 56° W. Fourché Harbour
The Cholesterol Myth
Diet has hardly any effect on your cholesterol level; the drugs that can lower it often have serious or fatal side effects; and there is no evidence at all that lowering your cholesterol level will lengthen your life
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
The Blues
The Passing of Thistle
Hell in a Very Tall Place
For this survey of what is considered some of the best public housing in the country, the author, a documentary photographer, visited sixty housing complexes in poor neighborhoods of New York City and toured 140 separate buildings .He found many dedicated employees, much beleaguered decency, and much degradation
Joseph Haydn and Lady Emma Hamilton
Hippies, Indians, Buffalo
“Whatever you do,”Martin’s cousin had written in his last letter from Vietnam, “don’t let them talk you into coming over here”
Hawks in a Bitter Blizzard
Do-It-Yourself Videotapes: Some of Them Are Even Helpful
