“Geography Action Rivers 2002” is an educational outreach program of the National Geographic Society in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and The Conservation Fund. Click here to explore a river system.The River source, also called the headwaters, is the beginning of a river. Often located in mountains, the source may be fed by an underground […] Read more

“Geography Action Rivers 2002” is an educational outreach program of the National Geographic Society in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and The Conservation Fund. Click here to explore a river system.The River source, also called the headwaters, is the beginning of a river. Often located in mountains, the source may be fed by an underground […] Read more

The story of George Eastman’s life is a legend. Born the son of a poor widow, he had to overcome intense competition and repeated failures. He started as a clerk for three dollars a week and became a very different kind of industrial giant. With determination and hard work, he simplified photography by creating the […] Read more

George Eastman set to work on simplifying the apparatus of photography and came up with the famous Kodak camera. The Eastman story was the stuff of legend. He was the poor widow’s son who started off as a $3 a week clerk, and by dint of hard work and phenomenal determination rose to vast fame […] Read more

George Gershwin is one of the Country’s most beloved and prolific composers. His easy way with a tune calls up images of starry Manhattan skylines, a top hat and tails, and the perfect martini. The Gershwin brothers George and Ira collaborated together with many other music legends. His songwriting ability merged pop, jazz, swing, and […] Read more

It’s very clear. His songs are here to stay. He is one of the Country’s most beloved and prolific composers, and artist whose seemingly facile way with a tune call up images of starry Manhattan skylines, a top hat and tails, the perfect martini. Whether collaborating with brother Ira which he did much of the […] Read more

Georgia O’Keeffe revolutionized modern art, both in her time and in the present. We can understand O’Keeffe’s art by the emotional response to nature and her need to create an equivalent in art. In the 1920s she explored this theme in her magnified paintings of flowers. She meant to convey that Nature, in all its […] Read more

Georgia O’Keeffe revolutionized modern art, both in her time and in the present. And if we understand O’Keeffe’s emotional response to nature and her need to create an equivalent in art, we hold the key to her work. In the 1920s she explored this theme in her magnified paintings of flowers, meant to convey that […] Read more

Georgia O’Keefe’s rather ordinary childhood on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin suggested little of the extraordinary life the future American painter would lead. Born November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin – a town of 900 near Madison — O’Keefe and her 6 siblings helped with chores on the large, prosperous farm every day […] Read more