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April 1991

13 years ago By admin

Volume

42

Issue

2

1841 One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago 1866 One Hundred and Twenty-five Years Ago 1916 Seventy-five Years Ago 1941 Fifty Years Ago 1966 Twenty-five Years Ago

Stories published from "April 1991"

The Traveler’s Bible

Authored by: The Editors

A chance meeting in a raucous hotel lobby nearly one hundred years ago led two drummers to make a spiritual mark on hostelries worldwide

The Double Life Of Hot Springs

Authored by: Wayne Fields

Its waters were so precious it was made a federal preserve in 1832. Ever since, it has been both a lavish spa for the robust and an infirmary for the frail.

Nicknames On The Land

Authored by: Gerald Carson

A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”

Loyalist Refuge

Authored by: Donald R. Canton

When their side lost the Revolution, New Englanders who had backed Britain packed up, sailed north, and established the town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It still flourishes.

The Day Wall Street Turned Into Orchard Street

Authored by: John Steele Gordon

As long as there have been bankers and brokers, there have been people asking what would happen if they had to earn an honest living

Links With History

Authored by: Peter Andrews

When you’re lining up a putt on the close-cropped green, there are ghosts at your shoulder. More than any other game, golf is played with a sense of tradition.

Billy the Kid Country

Authored by: Robert M. Utley

The legend of the most famous of all outlaws belongs to the whole world now. But to find the grinning teen-ager who gave rise to it, you must visit the New Mexico landscape where he lived his short life.

An Unofficial Tour Of Yale

Authored by: Richard B. Sewall

A guide who has been taking it all in for sixty years leads us on a lively, intimate, and idiosyncratic ramble through quiet yards where students once argued about separating from the Crown and to hidden carvings high on the Gothic towers that show scholars sleeping through class and getting drunk on beer

Predestinate Grooves

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

For some people Yale is as inevitable as income tax—and a great deal more fun

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