Smithsonian articles from July 1999

Smithsonian archives from July 1999

Designing Women : The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum Continues To Expand The Mission Of The Sisters Who Founded It.(history, collection, and educational services of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, located in New York City, is the only museum in America devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design. In 1853 the industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper...

Letters To The Editor.
July 1, 1999... Mona Lisa In the may issue, writer Joseph A. Harriss refers to the computer analysis of the Mona Lisa by my mother. I thought your readers might be interested in viewing some of the images (right) that led to her conclusion that the painting...

Help Is on the Way : COMBINE THE POWER OF NATURE, ANIMAL COMPANIONSHIP AND MUSIC, AND YOU HAVE A RECIPE FOR HEALING.(hospital planning)
July 1, 1999... Once again it turns out that i was born too soon. When my children were born, fathers were not allowed in the delivery room. They were not allowed in the labor room. It was only through the generosity of hospital administrators that fathers...

Uncovering the Secrets of Forest Canopies.(Smithsonian Environmental Research Center )
July 1, 1999... Deep in a Maryland forest, George Rasberry sits on an upturned pail and peers through a camera with a calibrated lens at the trees above him. He is measuring the leaf coverage present at each level of the forest. Here and there in the...

Reds Versus Whites : A Masterpiece In Porcelain Replays Old Struggles Between Bolshevik And Czarist Opponents.(chess set at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum)
July 1, 1999... As chessmen go, they are large, the king and queen nearly five inches tall, knights and bishops about an inch less, pawns and castles two and a half inches. Most chess sets come with opposed sets of identical pieces. Not these. Take a good...

Portrait Of The Author As A Young Man.
July 1, 1999... The fisherman in this 1905 picture went on to become famous as an angler, a hunter and one of the greatest writers of this century. July 21 would have been Ernest Hemingway's 100th birthday. There will be no shortage of photographs. Hemingway...

Botanical Art.
July 1, 1999... Watercolors by Margaret Mee British botanical artist Margaret Mee (1909-88) lived in Brazil and traveled widely through Amazonia for more than three decades. A passionate conservationist, she devoted her life to recording the beauty and...

Elvis et al. in the Courtyard.
July 1, 1999... NPG Concert Series "The Age of Elvis: The Roots of Rock and Roll" is a series of free lunchtime and evening concerts-rhythm and blues, rockabilly, Latin, doo- wop and soul-each Thursday in July in the National Portrait Gallery courtyard. Lunch...

Smithsonian Website.
July 1, 1999... WWW.SMITHSONIANMAG.SI.EDU A good place to learn more about the exhibitions, events, publications, programs and activities of the Smithsonian is our Website. There you will find the Highlights Calendar with links to the many pages of the...

Exhibitions, Events.
July 1, 1999... ART NIGHT ON THE MALL South Asian dance, music from Malawi, modern art from South Africa, films, a variety of children's activities and alfresco dining will be among the offerings at Art Night this year. Through September 2, the Arthur M....

.Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Mark Hertsgaard Broadway Books, $26 "The light is mute in Chongqing nearly all the time in winter," writes Mark Hertsgaard. And he asks: Is Chongqing our future? Chongqing is dim, we learn, because this industrial city has some of...

Planning a Visit?
July 1, 1999... The Castle-Information Center Begin your visit at the Smithsonian Information Center's Associates' Reception Desk-open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily-in the Castle. Special materials and information on exhibitions, activities and dining await you...

Beyond The Blue : The Art Of Maxfield Parrish.(Illustration)
July 1, 1999... In late afternoon on icy winter days, an unearthly blue appears over Mount Ascutney overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont. The blue is deeper than any ocean, airier than any cloud. Suggestive of an infinite twilight, it seems to...

A Town Buries The Axe.(truce between loggers and environmentalists in Quincy, California)
July 1, 1999... While I am studying the list of omelets and veggie burgers in the Morning Thunder Cafe in Quincy, California, Tom Nelson is looking around with a bemused expression. The restaurant is adorned with tie-dyed T- shirts and ads for...

Piloting Pint-Size Planes : Across the country, weekend aviators are sending their remote-controlled model aircraft soaring.
July 1, 1999... I hear a buzz, like an irritated giant hornet. slowing my car, i watch three men in a pasture, hunched over a knee-high yellow airplane. It seems to shiver with pent-up energy. One man-Gulliver-like-straddles the plane to keep it from...

Dancing Rocks : Mysteriously moving stones in Death Valley leave whimsical trails. How do they do that?
July 1, 1999... Heed the words of Robert frost one day and take a road less traveled by, one that will make all the difference. Go northwest from Furnace Creek in Death Valley, between the jagged rim of the Grapevine Mountains and the peaks and canyons of the...

Cyprus Lives In Love And Strife.
July 1, 1999... Despite ethnic tensions, today's tourists can't resist the past and present of this ancient Mediterranean crossroads for headline-readers the verdant island of Cyprus, tucked in the least-traveled corner of the Mediterranean Sea, is one of...

The Resurrection Of The Stones.(enlivened photographs on ancient stone buildings)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 1999... Across the face of England and Wales, ecclesiastical ruins lie scattered like dominoes, toppled in a power struggle between church and state. To obtain a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII broke with Rome and in 1534 declared himself...

Terror In A.D. 1000 ?(what really happened 1,000 years ago)
July 1, 1999... While we look to the new millennium with both trepidation and amusement, medieval scholars argue about what really happened at this time 1,000 years ago Popular accounts of the turn of the last millennium paint a world gone mad....

Being Superstitious Can Drive You Crazy.
July 1, 1999... Two minutes were left in the football game when I felt a sharp twinge in my calf. A muscle spasm. I growled and clutched my leg. The game was equally intense. My team, the Washington Redskins, led the New York Giants by a touchdown, but the...