T he poor guide was sweating, unconfident, and at a loss for words to explain the art in the Anchorage Fine Art Museum. On an Alaskan tour last year we escaped rain under a shelter with two women.How easy it is start conversations with strangers when one is older. “You must see the Anchorage art mus...

The “Tough ’Ombres” of the Ninetieth Infantry Division saw action for the first time on the bloody battlefields of France on Sept. 12, 1918. The Great War (no one imagined there might be a second) has all but faded from the national memory.   Ask most Americans what they know about World War I, and ...