Smithsonian Magazine: May 2007
Features
Beyond Jamestown
After the colony was founded, 400 years ago this month, Capt. John Smith set out to explore the riches of Chesapeake Bay. With Smith's journals to guide him, a modern-day sailor retraces that historic voyage
By Terence Smith
Cajun Country
Zydeco and étouffée still reign in western Louisiana, where the zesty gumbo known as Acadian culture has simmered since 1764
By Wayne Curtis
The Berkshires
The hills are alive with the sounds of Tanglewood plus modern dance, the art of Norman Rockwell and a literary tradition that goes back to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
By Jonathan Kandell
Galena, Illinois
Ulysses S. Grant's postwar retreat is not the only reason to visit this restored Victorian showcase
By Ulrich Boser
Highlights & Hotspots
A selection of the season's noteworthy events
By Amy Crawford
What Camera?
Look what photographer Robert Creamer can do with a flatbed scanner
By Marian Smith Holmes
Greg Carr's Big Gamble
In a watershed experiment, the Boston entrepreneur is putting $40 million of his own money into a splendid but ravaged park in Mozambique
By Stephanie Hanes
Epic Hero
How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years
By David Damrosch
Departments
Indelible Images
They Needed to Talk
And family friend William Eggleston, his camera at his side, felt compelled to shoot
By Emily Yellin
Digs
The New World's Oldest Calendar
Research at a 4,200-year-old temple in Peru yields clues to an ancient people who may have clocked the heavens
By Anne Bolen
Tribute
Organization Man
Carl Linnaeus, born 300 years ago, brought order to nature's blooming, buzzing confusion
By Kennedy Warne
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Squid light shows, monkey hugs and chickadee alarms
By Smithsonian magazine
The Object at Hand
Doodle Dandy
With a few deft strokes, Saul Steinberg turned institutional letterhead into signature works of whimsy
By Owen Edwards
Interview
Interview: Daniel Gilbert
What will make you happy? A social scientist explains why it's so hard to predict
By Eric Jaffe
