If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents are in need of transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast ...

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Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

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