Smithsonian Magazine: December 2004
Features
Herd on the the Street
In Anchorage, Alaska, you never know when a moose will show up on your doorstep
By Jim Doherty
Free at Last
A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
By Fergus M. Bordewich
America's Rare Bird
A new biography tells how the foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century's greatest wildlife artists and a patron saint of the ecology movement
By Richard Rhodes
Slices of Life
From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how
By John Loengard
The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
Exploring the New World a thousand years ago, a Viking woman gave birth to what is likely the first European-American baby. The discovery of the house the family built upon their return to Iceland has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
By Eugene Linden
Vilnius Remembers
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation's 225,000 Holocaust victims
By Vijai Maheshawri
Peter Pan Turns 100
But the boy who never grew up shows no signs of getting old
By Norman Allen
Departments
The Object at Hand
Tray Bon!
Thanksgiving leftovers260 tons in allgave birth to an industry
By Owen Edwards
Phenomena & Curiosities
Wicked Weed of the West
Spotted knapweed is driving out native plants and destroying rangeland, costing ranchers millions. Can anybody stop this outlaw?
By Joe Alper
People File
Treasure Quest
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates nearly 300 years ago
By Michael Behar
From the Secretary
Being There
Robotic spacecraft allow geologists to explore other planets as if they were on-site
By Lawrence M. Small
Letters
Channel Islands foxes; Eddie Grant...
Readers respond to the October issue
By Smithsonian magazine
