Smithsonian Magazine: April 2004

Features

Saving the Music Tree

Artists and instrument makers have banded together to rescue Brazil's imperiled pernambuco, the source of bows for violins, violas and cellos
By Russ Rymer

Remembering the Alamo

Move over, John Wayne. John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the mythic massacre in a more historically accurate light
By Bruce Selcraig

And Now For Something Completely Different

By Max Alexander

Vaunted Vancouver

Set between the Pacific Ocean and a coastal mountain range, the British Columbia city—with a rain forest in its midst—may be the ultimate urban playground
By Jonathan Kandell

Photos for All Time

A new book, At First Sight, draws on all the Smithsonian's vast archives to chart photograph's profound place in history
By Merry A. Foresta

Georgia at a Crossroads

Past armed checkpoints into outlaw lands, the author traces the history of the Caucasus republic, the leading recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and scene of a potential new cold war
By Jeffrey Tayler

Harriet Tubman

By Smithsonian magazine

Departments

Indelible Images

Flower Child

A Vietnam War protester recalls a seminal '60s image, part of a new book celebrating French photographer Marc Riboud's 50-year career
By Andrew Curry

Points of Interest

Birds of a Feather

Scores of teams battle for fame and glory in the no-holds-barred World Series of Birding
By Robert Earle Howells

The Object at Hand

Titanic Sank This Morning

An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
By Owen Edwards

Phenomena & Curiosities

Towering Mysteries

Who built them and why? An amateur archaeologist tries to get to the bottom of some astonishing structures in Tibet and Sichuan Province, China
By Richard Stone

People File

Tunnel Visionary

Intrepid explorer Julia Solis finds beauty in the ruins of derelict urban structures
By Stephen P. Williams

Presence of Mind

Colossal Ode

Without Emma Lazarus' timeless poem, Lady Liberty would be just another statue
By David Lehman

From the Secretary

A Task for Every Talent

Since the Smithsonian's earliest days, the help of volunteers has been essential
By Lawrence M. Small

Editor's Note

Rescue Missions

Quests to Save a Tree... and a Country
By Carey Winfrey

Lewis and Clark

Off the Charts

Going where few cartographers have gone before, the expedition members hope to find a river that will carry them all the way to the Pacific Ocean
By Smithsonian magazine

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