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The Secret World of Saints

Byliner Originals, January 2012

Kateri Tekakwitha was a seventeenth-century Mohawk Indian and a Roman Catholic ascetic who slept on a bed of thorns. On December 19, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI credited her with causing a miracle. She will soon be named a saint. But what exactly does that mean? How does someone become a saint? And why is a con artist Italian friar who faked his stigmata wounds already a saint?
Edited by Laura Hohnhold.

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Naked Joe

Boston Magazine, April 2013

In August, 1913, a pudgy middle-aged man named Joe Knowles stepped naked into the woods of Maine, to see if he could live as a primitive man. When he returned to his home in Boston two months later, clad in a bearskin,  200,000 people greeted him at North Station. Edited by Toby Lester.

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Stairway to Hell

The New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2013

Inside the arcane world of competitive stair racing. Edited by Dean Robinson.

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In the Land of Oil and Money

Thirty Two Magazine, Fall 2012

A week with fortune seekers on the oil patch in Williston, North Dakota. Edited by Katie Eggers.

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The Coast is Clear

Sunset, September 2012

A look at Bandon By the Sea, Oregon–and a meditation on the basic joys of going to the beach. Edited by Nino Padova.

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The Long Way Home

Backpacker, September 2012

Fourteen years ago, Karl Bushby set out to hike 36,000 miles across four continents. He’s still trying to get home. Edited by Dennis Lewon.

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