<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How the Philadelphia waterworks became a potent symbol of our lost belief that nature and technology could live together in harmony</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">150 years ago, a sea of grass spread from the Ohio to the Rockies. Now, only bits and pieces of that awesome wilderness remain for the traveler to discover.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Hal Holbrook has lived with him nearly as long as Samuel Clemens did, and he explains why Twain still has the power to delight and to disturb.</span></p>
<p>There is much talk today about online piracy, but 19th century authors like Melville, Dickens, and Poe struggled financially because of the lack of international copyright law.</p>
