John James Audubon

A natural history that almost wasn't: 'America's Other Audubon'

2012-04-27 16:35:21

<![CDATA[A natural history that almost wasn't: 'America's Other Audubon']]>

Quick Takes: Rare 'Birds' at auction

2012-01-07 00:00:00

<![CDATA[Quick Takes: Rare 'Birds' at auction]]>

Got $10 million? The world's most expensive book could be yours

2012-01-06 16:35:04

<![CDATA[Got $10 million? The world's most expensive book could be yours]]>

Edward Hopper painting to become U.S. postage stamp

2011-08-15 21:33:09

<![CDATA[Edward Hopper painting to become U.S. postage stamp]]>

LETTER: Why Landscape Butchery Along Highways?

2013-05-17 16:13:02

For months now, I have watched the edges of roads and highways become more and more depleted of the beautiful trees that line them. While I understand that, in some cases, branches hanging too low over roads or select old trees perhaps leaning too...

New Audubon Society bird park opens Saturday at Oxbow Meadows

2013-05-11 00:00:00

This Saturday the Columbus Audubon Society opens to the public its bird park behind Columbus State University's Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center, offering area resident a place specifically designed for birds and bird watchers. Activities...

USC lands $30M in historic artwork

2013-05-10 06:54:04

The email that arrived on a Saturday morning stunned and excited Tom McNally. "I'm interested in donating $30 million of materials to the University of South Carolina," said the message from W. Graham Arader III, a leading collector of historic maps and...

Field has mulled selling artifacts

2013-04-09 00:00:00

When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....

Nest camera uncovers osprey love triangle drama on Hog Island; female bird lays first egg of season

2013-04-27 11:44:02

Rachel and Steve seemed like the perfect couple -- building a nest together and raising their babies in a perch high above Hog Island in the town of Bremen. Everyone figured they'd be together forever, or at least through this year's nesting season....

News briefs for April 23

2013-04-23 08:50:00

‘Audubon In Kentucky’ talk set at library Friends of the Library continue its spring program series at 4 p.m. Wednesday with Sarah Vahlkamp’s presentation, “Audubon in Kentucky.” The program will be held in the Community...

10 things you might not know about Abraham Lincoln

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Steven Spielberg's film about a long-limbed, inspirational figure is finally coming to theaters. No, it's not a re-issue of "E.T." It's "Lincoln," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Here are 10 facts about "Honest Abe": 1 Lincoln detested the nickname Abe, and...

The beauty — and sorrow — of an empty nest

2012-08-17 14:16:00

The lithographs in Joy M. Kiser's "America's Other Audubon" are works of great beauty and scientific accuracy. But behind them is a tragedy — the story of a hugely ambitious undertaking begun in heartbreak and completed in grief. The art book...

Audubon's Aviary The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America Roberta J.M.

2012-11-29 22:12:36