December 2002
A mission in California ... listening to the gramophone ... Saturnalia ... young toes ... miles and miles of aisles ... "the greatest chaos in America" ... mapping the elements

November 2002
Bob Hope, alias "Packy East" ... hooting at hunger ... when is Thanksgiving? ... the first Thanksgiving ... Veterans Day ... Julia Ward Howe and the Battle Hymn of the Republic ... Poetry 180

October 2002
Jefferson's library ... the Wizard of Oz ... political parties ... Walt Whitman's notebooks ... the annual Library of Congress National Book Festival ... copyright ... comic books