The Quiet Paradise (E Magazine)

What's old is now new (Dallas Morning News)

The Negro League Cafe (LiveLife Travel)

Food Storage How-to's (WeightWatchers.com)

Some article ledes, by Kelly Pucci:

Hair Hats (Islands Magazine)

Becoming a man on the South Pacific Island of Bougainville requires physical strength, patience, intelligence – and a hat the size of a basketball.

Good Fortune (julib.com)  While angst-ridden, Columbia College film students storyboard their indie films over a bucket of chicken at KFC, you’ll find the profs next door at just-opened Tamarind.

 Secrets of an International Pocillovist  (Antiques & Collecting Magazine)

 When Louis XV, King of France, lopped off eggheads with a powerful crack, he thrilled his loyal subjects. Though few visited the Palace of Versailles, they imitated their young King’s behavior. Each morning, gleeful commoners placed a soft-boiled egg atop a tiny pedestal, and whack! Breakfast fit for a king.

Greetings from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives (Picture Postcard Monthly)

 A forest – in a county where bats eat virus-carrying mosquitoes, Canada Geese fly overhead, and Sandhill Cranes wade through small lakes – seems an unlikely setting for the archives of a famous American postcard company. But, this is exactly where you’ll find the Curt Teich Postcard Archives.

 Remembrance of Tomes Past: How to deal with used books (Plenty Magazine)

 Kids may be reading less and watching more TV these days, but there are still more than a billion books sold annually in the United States. The Green Press Initiative reports that the book publishing industry makes quick use of 25 million trees each year – the equivalent of 25,000 acres of forest. So what happens to all those processed trees when it’s time for us to clear out shelf space for our summer paperbacks?

 Visitor’s View: Historic Pullman District, Chicago, Illinois (Legacy Magazine)

 As James carefully threaded the bus through heavy traffic – a job made more difficult by sunlight reflected from a three-story steel sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park – we entered the 19^th-century world of industrialist George Pullman.

 Thinkin’ About Lincoln (Family Motor Coaching Magazine)

Some towns honor their local hero with a bronze plaque or historical marker, but Springfield, Illinois, celebrates the life of its most famous citizen in grand style. Who is Springfield’s favorite son? He is a man of humble means who led a nation divided by war. He is President Abraham Lincoln.

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