Illustration by Hartley Lin

The Ephemera

Goings on at the magazine.
Photo by Edmund Jarecki, Chicago Daily News

Neighbourhood Watch

In January, 1968, eleven black students integrated Mount Greenwood Elementary School, on Chicago’s Southwest Side. In this excerpt from a memoir of her family’s civil-rights activities, Terry Murray, a white Mount Greenwood teen at the time, recalls the turmoil of the anti-integration protests that followed.
Photo by Brian Francis

Devilishly Elegant

Nothing says summer like a trayful of hard-boiled eggs covered in salad dressing and cornflakes.
Illustration by Matthew Daley

Worry

Photo of Jasper by W. J. L. Gibbons

Distinctly Canadian

Visitors to Jasper, Alberta, still love the town’s namesake host, seventy years after his first appearance.
Photo by Ron Nickel Photography

Footprints in the Sand

Richard Kelly Kemick wasn’t sure why he wanted to spend an entire summer in the Alberta badlands acting in a play about the death of Jesus Christ. In this excerpt from a work-in-progress, the Christian-turned-agnostic discovers he’s not the only one with questions.
Photo of the Royal Canadian Bicycle Club

Accidental Historian

Barry Slater’s curious nature is helping a Toronto curling club rediscover its past.