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December 2000

Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.

Features

The Cypress Grill

At a seasonal herring shack in North Carolina, the house specialty evokes memories of an earlier era

Portraits of Her People

Historian, photographer and Macarthur "genius," Deborah Willis documents the black experience

Race for a Remedy

Retired from the track, thoroughbred First Flight served as a "factory" to produce botulism antitoxin

The Public Bath

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