I tend to stray away from new agey, kumbaya-my-Lord thinking, but I heard something recently--a simple sentence--that has really been transformative to me. I wondered if this little tidbit would have ...

LITTLE FALLS — For two minutes and 20 seconds, a courtroom sat in silence — watching a video of toddler Sebastian Greyblood lying on a blanket and looking at a photo album of his mother on vacation.

On a return trip to Eagle 20 years after the publication of his book about Alaska, writer John McPhee spotted a gavel in the restored 1904 Eagle Courthouse and asked his friend Elva Scott about a line ...