Columns & Sections

Book Review
Arming America; The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by Michael A. Bellesiles
review by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoon
Overflow: heavy petting
by Jamie Smith

Editorial
What the Public is Valued For

Firebreak
column by J.D. Ragan

Murder in the Malemute Saloon
The Significance of Peanuts
a mystery of many rumors
by Hu Dun Niht

a note on translation
Icelandic
Russian

poetry
"The Flush"
by Birch Pavelsky

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
U-Pick Basil Ranch
by Lisa Kljaich Indigo

Video Dreamland
The Crew
The Wonder Boys
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
The Contender
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
reviews by Thela Clayton

FEATURES

The Picts
by J. Lowe

Bede, F.T. Wainwright, and other historians chronicled the culture and lives of the Picts, but there is a void of limited fact and unlimited speculation concerning them.

Pine Wood Derby
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

How Jeff's dad helped his son triumph over his childhood nemesis, using a little superlubricant.

A Three-Cornered Fight in Ester City
by G. E. Peterson

Ester City in 1908 was the scene of a card game followed by a fight amongst three men: an overzealous lawman, a saloon keeper, and a U.S. deputy marshal (the regular law).

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