Sean Cole

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Animal artists

From dog painters to elephant orchestras, can creatures really be creative?

A daguerreotype of Walt Whitman is displayed at the New York Public Library

American Icons: ‘Leaves of Grass’

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American Icons: Because I Would Not Stop for Death

Arts, Culture & Media

American Icons: Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Arts, Culture & Media

American Icons: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”

Arts, Culture & Media

American Icons: Leaves of Grass

Arts, Culture & Media

Walt Whitman set out to invent a radically new form of poetry for a new nation. His book was first viewed as bizarre and obscene — one reviewer said that the author should be publicly…

The World

Living Native

Justin “Red Bear” Mudgett wants to get back to his Indian roots. He wears traditional animal skins and tries to live close to the land, raising buffalo in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. And though his ancestors are from the Pasamaquoddy tribe, he plans to s

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Ant Patrol

Stefan Cover cares for the largest collection of preserved ant specimens in the world at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. And after immersing himself in the behavior and biology of these hierarchical insects for years, he can’t help but

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Ant Patrol

Stefan Cover likes ants. He likes them so much that he’s made a living collecting and caring for them. He’s the curator for Harvard University’s ant collection  ? the largest collection of preserved ants in the world. And to hear him speak, his arthropod specimens seem more human than ant-like. Reporter Sean Cole pays a […]

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Ogonowski Legacy

John Ogonowski was the pilot of the first plane hit the World Trade Center one year ago. But Ogonowski’s life outside of aviation included his farm in Dracut, Massachusetts. Aside from his own business, he helped Cambodian refugees wishing to return to farming. As reporter Sean Cole reports, those involved in the mentoring program have […]