April 2000

Deciding to rescue a historic property is the start of what turns out to be a lifelong relationship as terrifying as it is exhilarating.

American jazz musicians once enjoyed a freedom and respect in France’s capital that they could never win at home. Landmarks of that era still abound.

On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you can visit a haunting re-creation of a life that was, at once, harder and better than we remember.

Even Oscar Wilde visited the Colorado town in 1882, and gave a lecture to enraptured miners on Cellini and Shakespeare.

IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, CARS CAN STILL FILL UP AT A FOUNT THAT NURTURED THE AUTOMOTIVE AGE IN ITS INFANCY.

The cemetery where many of the greatest early movie stars are buried is returning to life.

The newspaper baron Robert McCormick was a passionate isolationist, though his brief service in France in 1918 shone for him all his life and gave birth to an extraordinary museum.