Smithsonian Magazine: April 2005
Features
Evolution on Trial
Eighty years after a Dayton, Tennessee, jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the citizens of "Monkeytown" still say Darwin's for the birds
By Steve Kemper
Out of Time
Less than a decade after their first contact with the outside world, the volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation. Their fiercest champion, Indian tracker Sydney Possuelo, is trying to keep their world intact. But how long can he, and they, hold out?
By Paul Raffaele
The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí
Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide
By Stanley Meisler
Conquering Polio
Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines
By Jeffrey Kluger
Little Bighorn Reborn
With a new Indian memorial, the site of Custer's last stand draws descendants of victors and vanquished alike
By Tony Perrottet
One Writer's Garden
In Jackson, Mississippi, preservationists are restoring the verdant retreat that sustained novelist Eudora Welty
By Wendy Mitman Clarke
A Road Less Traveled
Cape Cod's two-lane Route 6A offers a direct conduit to a New England of yesteryear
By Jonathan Kandell
Healing Arts
At Ojo Caliente, site of New Mexico's ancient hot springs, an artisan revives the craft of Native American pottery
By Paul Trachtman
Shore Bird
Architect Santiago Calatrava created an urban landmark in the guise of an addition for the Milwaukee Art Museum
By Terah U. DeJong
Footpath Atop the West
Since the 1930s, the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, extending from Mexico to Canada, has beckoned young and old
By Donovan Webster
Rapture of the Deep
Pennekamp State Park—the nation's first coral-reef santcuary—protects a thriving ecosystem beneath the waves
By Marialisa Calta
Departments
Indelible Images
The Old Ballgames
Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Digs
Swords and Sandals
In Libya, again open to U.S. travelers after more than two decades, archaeologists have uncovered spectacular mosaics of the glories of Rome
By Vivienne Walt
The Object at Hand
Hearing Aid
A trove of recorded sounds preserves everything from tree frog calls to murmurs of the heart
By Owen Edwards
Presence of Mind
Just What the Doctor Ordered
During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine
By Beverly Gage
Editor's Note
Emerging From Caves
Science suffers a setbackand leads to a breakthrough
By Carey Winfrey
From the Secretary
Invention at Play
The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us
By Lawrence M. Small
Lewis and Clark
A Formidable Anamal
After a winter of waiting, the corps leaves Fort Mandan and heads warily into bear country
By Smithsonian magazine
The Last Page
Hugs and Kisses from the IRS
A kinder, gentler tax form is on the way
By Smithsonian magazine
