Rituals and Traditions
Established practices around weddings, funerals and celebrations
Fish Are Jumpin'
A coastal community struggles to preserve the North Carolina "mullet blow"
November 01, 2006 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Pamplona: No Bull
Forget Hemingway's bovine madness: this charming medieval town hosts the most misunderstood public party in the world - the festival of Sam Fermin.
July 2006 |
By Erla Zwingle
A Mystery Fit For A Pharaoh
The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut's is raising new questions for archaeologists about ancient Egypt's burial practices
July 2006 |
By Andrew Lawler
War and Remembrance
An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam
May 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Duel!
Defenders of honor or shoot-on-sight vigilantes? Even in 19th-century America, it was hard to tell
March 2004 |
By Ross Drake
Dead Lines
Today's obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans
October 2003 |
By Richard Conniff
Egypt's Crowning Glory
New Kingdom customs rise triumphantly from the dead in "The Quest for Immortality," a dazzling display of treasures from the tombs of the pharaohs
July 2003 |
By Doug Stewart
Providential Happening
A fiery installation draws crowds in Providence, Rhode Island, illuminating a "daylighting" trend
November 2002 |
By Fred Hapgood
Making Ends Meet
Iowa abbey monks craft fine caskets for the recently departed and "pre-Need" customers alike
October 2002 |
By Sam Hooper Samuels
Palio: Italy's Mad Dash
Pageantry, passion and intrigue are all on display in the no-holds-barred, bareback horse race run twice each summer in the medieval city of Siena
August 2002 |
By Smithsonian magazine
They Turned the Tide
Members of the Doolittle Raiders celebrate the 60th anniversary of the U.S. answer to pearl harbor
August 2002 |
By Robert F. Howe
Bang! Bang! You're Dead
Dueling at the drop of a hat was as European as truffles, and as American as mom's apple pie
October 1997 |
By Barbara Holland
