Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...
While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...
Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...
ARTIFICAL REEFS This month, the Sport Fishermen of Broward, in conjunction with Broward County (Fla.) and Boyd's Bait and Tackle Shop, sank a ship in honor of Bill Boyd, one of their deceased members. Bill Boyd's underwater memorial joins more then 500 artificial...
Humans have already destroyed a quarter of the world's coral reefs. Now, it's time to help keep what's left. s a teenager-and a Boy Scout in Troop 116, West Palm Beach, Fla.--I loved hiking and camping in Jonathan Dickinson State Park's coastal sand pine...
Authorities in Wakayama Prefecture are making Japan's first attempt to develop an artificial reef to enhance surfing conditions in a local beach to attract surfers from across the nation and revitalize the regional economy. The governments of Wakayama Prefecture and Nachikatsuura, a...
Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher,...
