October 2000

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

Features

Lawrence M. Small

Left-handed, she taught herself to play, wrote the folk classic "Freight Train" and sang into her 90s

Marika Carley

As deadly bacteria increasingly resist antibiotics, researchers try to improve a World War I era weapon

Julie Wakefield

Faster by James Gleick

Paul Trachtman

Janice L. Kaplan