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items: In Search of the Amish
items: The Forced Florida Exile of an Apache Warrior
items: Someone an Awful Lot Like Me
items: Review: Office Romance — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
items: News of the Week: Hurricane Names, the Return of Dracula, and Marilyn Monroe at 100
items: Arctic Hive: An Alaska Backcountry Retreat Under the Northern Lights
items: Here on Main Street: The Age-Old Question
items: Cartoons: A Spate of Waiters
items: Missing in History: The First Female Pinkerton Detective
items: Con Watch: Tips for Scam-Free Travel
items: Slave Patrols Didn’t Just Oppress Enslaved People
items: Patsy Mink’s Battle for Fundamental Human Rights
items: Classic Covers: Rural Wedding by John Clymer
items: News of the Week: Goodbye Schlitz, Hello Typos, and the Best Place to Live in the U.S.
items: In a Word: What’s the Gossip?

In Search of the Amish
type: item
creator: Bill Newcott
date: 2026-06-08T15:00:32Z
subject: Articles
subject: Travel
description: In Indiana’s Amish Country, visitors are welcome to enter their quiet world. In Search of the Amish The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Linda King is serving me and some friends the same dinner she’d prepare for her husband, Lamar, and their seven children. Well, in a way, we’re serving ourselves: Dinner tonight, in a dining room just off Linda’s home in Shipshewana, Indiana, is a traditional Amish “Haystack,” a do-it-yourself meal that allows diners to stack the ingredients to their particular taste. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1200373" data-permalink="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/06/in-search-of-the-amish/860haystack-dinner-at-taste-of-shipshewana-dinner/" data-orig-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinner-at-Taste-of-Shipshewana-dinner.jpg" data-orig-size="860,484" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.64","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 16e","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1779305669","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.2","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="860Haystack dinner at Taste of Shipshewana dinner" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Haystack dinner at the Taste of Shipshewana dinner (Photo by Bill Newcott) " data-large-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinner-at-Taste-of-Shipshewana-dinner-500x281.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-1200373" src="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinner-at-Taste-of-Shipshewana-dinner.jpg" alt="" width="860" height="484" srcset="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinner-at-Taste-of-Shipshewana-dinner.jpg 860w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinner-at-Taste-of-Shipshewana-dinner-400x225.jpg 400w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinner-at-Taste-of-Shipshewana-dinner-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/860Haystack-dinn…

The Forced Florida Exile of an Apache Warrior
type: item
creator: Caroline Eubanks
date: 2026-06-08T15:00:23Z
subject: American Life
subject: Articles
subject: History
description: After surrendering to the United States government, Geronimo and several Apache warriors were dispatched to Florida as prisoners of war, becoming an unlikely — and unwilling — tourist attraction. The Forced Florida Exile of an Apache Warrior The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: During the era of Manifest Destiny in the mid-19th century, the United States expanded westward. Following the Mexican-American War, lands inhabited by Apache peoples became part of the United States, intensifying decades of conflict between Apache groups, settlers, and the Army. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1200310" data-permalink="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/06/the-forced-florida-exile-of-an-apache-warrior/geronimo-raid/" data-orig-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/geronimo-raid.jpg" data-orig-size="400,596" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="geronimo raid" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Illustration by Frederic Remington from the August 18, 1888, Harper’s Weekly of Geronimo and his band returning from a raid into Mexico (Library of Congress) " data-large-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/geronimo-raid.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-1200310" src="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/geronimo-raid.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="596" srcset="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/geronimo-raid.jpg 400w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/geronimo-raid-300x447.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /> Illustration by Frederic Remington from the August 18, 1888, Harper’s Weekly of Geronimo and his band returning from a raid into Mexico (Library of Congress) A man named Geronimo led raids against soldiers in his homeland in modern-day Arizona and New Mexico, pushing back against the encroaching settlers. It’s this fearless leadership that transformed him into a Wild West folk hero, with sensationalized accounts from people who never interacte…

Someone an Awful Lot Like Me
type: item
creator: Alain Kerfs
date: 2026-06-05T13:30:38Z
subject: Articles
subject: Contemporary Fiction
subject: Fiction
description: Open houses offer Rosa a chance to connect, but with what? Someone an Awful Lot Like Me The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: An attempt has been made, the house polished and perfumed with the fragrance of lemon and pine. All for nothing. This house, Rosa knows within a minute of stepping inside, is pure crap. She sees the slug-colored tiles, the yellowed doilies, the kindergarten-bright floral wallpaper that whispers laziness and vulgarity, and she knows that anyone with this sort of taste would let a house go sour in ways not obvious. Standing in the hallway is a real estate agent that Rosa has not encountered before: female, younger than usual — obviously no college degree, Rosa thinks, no other viable options — wearing a pressed blazer over dress pants, a sparkly necklace, a glossy-lipped smile. Outdated, but earnest. Worth some of her time. “I’m Denise,” the agent says. “Would you like a tour?” Rosa is in her Sunday best, a navy-blue skirt whose zipper doesn’t quite close at the top, a white blouse with yellowed stains under the arms, unseen if Rosa keeps her arms down. She’s not the kind of woman to wave her arms. She knows that real estate agents do not give priority to 65-year-old women, not their best house-buying demographic, but she is all there is. “Certainly.” Denise takes her through the house, pointing out features obvious and unremarkable. Rosa sees vague watercolors on the walls, limp curtains in the windows, and in every room a scarcity of personal items. Rosa believes that prior inhabitants leave layers of residue like a palimpsest, the artwork she used to teach, residue she touches when she glides her fingertips on furniture, residue that lifts past conversations into her ears. This house presents silence. A house barely occupied. She thinks of the small apartment she shared with Manny, barely containing their life together, his booming voice, his ardor. “Pay attention,” she tells herself. The tour ends in the entryway. A business card pressed into her hand. Denise asks, “Are you looking for a house for yourself?” “Are you asking why a woman my age would buy a house? Wi…

Review: Office Romance — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
type: item
creator: Bill Newcott
date: 2026-06-05T13:00:14Z
subject: Articles
subject: Movies
subject: Movies for the Rest of Us
description: This undeniably appealing pair provide more than enough spark in this diverting-if-somewhat-rote story of an airline CEO taking up a forbidden romance with her company’s top lawyer. Review: Office Romance — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Office Romance Rating: R Run Time: 1 hour 34 minutes Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein Writers: Brett Goldstein, Joe Kelly Director: Ol Parker Streaming on Netflix Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back. Boy and girl live happily ever after. That’s the time-honored formula that has defined romantic comedies since at least the days of Charlie Chaplin, and anyone who has dared tried to fiddle with that formula (other than, maybe, Woody Allen) has paid the box office price. The trick has always been in finding new ways to make the couple “meet cute,” and novel obstacles that threaten to derail their blossoming love affair. Above all, though, the two leads must not only have individual appeal – they also need, jointly, that special something that we’ve come to describe as “chemistry.” Tracy and Hepburn had it. Hanks and Ryan had it. And while no one this side of a fever-dreaming publicist would hope to place Jennifer Lopez and Ted Lasso costar Brett Goldstein in that romcom pantheon, the undeniably appealing pair do provide more than enough spark to power through this diverting-if-somewhat-rote story of an airline CEO (Lopez) taking up a forbidden romance with her company’s top lawyer. Lopez plays Jackie Cruz, the no-nonsense head of CruzAir, an up-and-coming regional airline based in Northern New Jersey (shoutout to Jersey City, which finally gets a claim to screen fame beyond The Sopranos). CruzAir is about to expand service to Dallas, but faces some regulatory problems because Jackie is suspected of obtaining access to those arrival gates via a romantic tryst with an airport official. (Not clear: how that would make any legal difference. And in any case, it’s not true; we know full well that Jackie is a shrewd negotiator who would never use her superstar-class charms to close a business deal.) When CruzAir’s top lawyer (Bradley Whitford) is suddenly incapacitated, his second-in-command, company newcomer Daniel Blanchflower, takes over …

News of the Week: Hurricane Names, the Return of Dracula, and Marilyn Monroe at 100
type: item
creator: Bob Sassone
date: 2026-06-05T12:04:04Z
subject: Articles
subject: News of the Week
description: In the news of the week ending June 5, 2026, are Hurricane Nana, the best vampire movie, and some luscious lemon recipes. News of the Week: Hurricane Names, the Return of Dracula, and Marilyn Monroe at 100 The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Is Your Name on the List? The 2026 hurricane name list has been released. This year’s winners (?) are Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Leah, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicki, and Wilfrid. I guess if you’re a “nana” in your family you can say that it refers to you. Is it an “honor” to have your name on the hurricane list or something you don’t want to be associated with? It probably depends on how devastating the damage is. Why Is Everything So Stupid? I didn’t even realize that this was a thing, but publishers are “updating” older books with modern references. For example, the 2006 young adult novel Pretty Little Liars had a reference to the reality show Fear Factor. But apparently nobody thinks that kids and adults can handle such a “dated” reference so they’ve replaced it with Instagram and Billie Eilish. Why do books have to change from what they originally said? How far can we take this? If a book written in the 1950s mentions President Eisenhower, will a future edition of that book have to update it with whoever will be president when the new version comes out? Will the books being changed have to be changed yet again in 20 or 30 years when these references are dated? By the way, to show how pointless this all is, Fear Factor is back on TV now. The worst part about this is that many of the authors of these books are actually okay with it! The new version of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has a cover that shows the main character texting. Get it? She’s talking to God. In other books, they’ve taken out references to VCRs, tape decks, and phone books. And people wonder why younger people today have no knowledge/interest in the past. The publishers and agents and authors think that books should be “time-agnostic,” which is insane. What’s next, editing films and TV shows to take out the “dated” buildings and actors and music? Honestly, writing your book using AI would be…

Arctic Hive: An Alaska Backcountry Retreat Under the Northern Lights
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creator: Jill K. Robinson
date: 2026-06-04T13:00:49Z
subject: Articles
subject: Travel
description: This off-grid immersive experience puts guests in tune with remote wilderness. Arctic Hive: An Alaska Backcountry Retreat Under the Northern Lights The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Layer upon layer, I get dressed in my stove-warmed cabin: wool, synthetic fleece, down, then nylon. At 15 degrees below zero, the wall of cold hits immediately as I step outside and turn on my headlamp to illuminate the snowy trail. My breath hangs in front of my face like clouds, and in the five minutes it takes to hike to my destination, an icy fringe has formed in my eyelashes. Inside the yoga dome, candles glow and mats are set on top of fluffy, faux-fur rugs. While celestial green ribbons still twist in the dark sky, practice begins. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1200323" data-permalink="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/06/arctic-hive-an-alaska-backcountry-retreat-under-the-northern-lights/yoga-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga.jpg" data-orig-size="860,645" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="yoga" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" A yoga session (Photo courtesy of Arctic Hive) " data-large-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga-500x375.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-1200323" src="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga.jpg" alt="" width="860" height="645" srcset="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga.jpg 860w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga-400x300.jpg 400w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/yoga-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-…

Here on Main Street: The Age-Old Question
type: item
creator: Bob Sassone
date: 2026-06-03T15:00:49Z
subject: Articles
subject: Here on Main Street
description: I could buy 75 bottles of Plymouth Gin, a box of matches, and a book on the history of arson, and they wouldn't bat an eye. But I have to prove I'm of age when I buy something to help me get over a cough. Here on Main Street: The Age-Old Question The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Could I have your birthdate? You could, but it would be a remarkable coincidence. That’s part of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with the cashier at the supermarket. I was buying some cough medicine, along with chicken, carrots, corn, mouthwash, and those Riesen candies, which are insanely delicious but sometimes get stuck in my teeth. She asked me for my birthdate because I was buying cough medicine to help me get rid of a nagging cough. I guess there are a lot of addictive ingredients in cough medicine, and they want to make sure I’m not 16 years old and sharing it with my buddies on a Friday night. I gave my age, and she punched the numbers into the register. I was a little surprised by her question. Not completely, because I know that CVS and other stores are locking up razor blades, something else that’s maddening, but it’s odd that an adult has to prove their age at the supermarket when it’s just one item among 30 others that they’re buying. Cough medicine is something that people have bought for a century with no problem. Apparently, I can buy sharp knives and painkillers and dangerous, corrosive cleaning fluids and not have to prove my age, but buying cough medicine is beyond the pale. I paid by debit card, and I was wondering what would have happened if I had tried to pay with cash. Would they have looked at me funny? Maybe they would have thought I was paying in cash because I didn’t want any kind of electronic trail tied to my name when buying cough medicine. Like I was making a drug deal. Do they really think I’m going to get hooked on a cough suppressant? There are so many other better-tasting substances I could take too much of (and have), why would I choose Formula 44? Do I look that desperate? And just because I’m old enough, why does that prove to the store that I’m not going to use the cough medicine incorrectly? Do only underage people abuse it? When I buy alcohol at the liquor store, they don’t ask me for my birthdate. They don’t even ask fo…

Cartoons: A Spate of Waiters
type: item
creator: Post Editors
date: 2026-06-03T13:00:13Z
subject: Articles
subject: Cartoon Collections
subject: Humor
description: A waiter’s job is rarely fun, but it can be funny! Cartoons: A Spate of Waiters The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Want even more laughs? Subscribe to the magazine for cartoons, art, inspiring stories, fiction, humor, and features from our archives. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1199737" data-permalink="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/06/cartoons-a-spate-of-waiters/cx4-5-58-8/" data-orig-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7.jpg" data-orig-size="750,599" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"Jennifer Bortel","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1626447432","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="cx4-5-58" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" “I’ve been expecting you.” Scott Taber April 5, 1958 " data-large-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7-500x399.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-1199737" src="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="599" srcset="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7.jpg 750w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7-400x319.jpg 400w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7-500x399.jpg 500w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7-300x240.jpg 300w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx4-5-58-7-600x479.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" /> “I’ve been expecting you.” Scott Taber April 5, 1958 <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1199738" data-permalink="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/06/cartoons-a-spate-of-waiters/cx3-31-62-4/" data-orig-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/cx3-31-62-3.jpg" data-orig-size="750,589" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"Jennifer …

Missing in History: The First Female Pinkerton Detective
type: item
creator: Nancy Rubin Stuart
date: 2026-06-02T15:00:05Z
subject: Articles
subject: Missing in History
subject: People
description: Kate Warne claimed that she could worm out secrets in many places where it would be impossible for male detectives to go. Missing in History: The First Female Pinkerton Detective The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: In July 1856 when 23-year-old Kate Warne answered an ad for a detective at Pinkerton’s Chicago agency, Allan Pinkerton was stunned. It was “not the custom to employ women detectives,” he told her. Warne persisted, claiming that “she could go and worm out secrets in many places to which it was impossible for male detectives to gain access.” She added that women more easily befriended other women whose husbands and mates were suspected criminals, especially since those men often bragged to them about their deeds. Pinkerton decided to hire Kate Warne that day, and she went on to become one of the shrewdest detectives of the 19th century. Within two years, Warne proved her value after she befriended the wife of Nathan Maroney, a suspect in the $50,000 embezzlement of the Adams Express, a freight and cargo company. Warne replaced her northern accent with a southern one and eventually won the wife’s trust. Using information she gleaned from her “friendship,” Warne not only proved the suspect’s guilt, but also facilitated the return of nearly $40,000 after forcing the embezzler to make a full confession. Pinkerton was so impressed with Warne that in 1860 he appointed her head of his new Female Detective Bureau in Chicago. Soon afterwards, Warne recruited Elizabeth H. Baker and Hattie Lawton for her bureau; they both later served as Union spies during the Civil War. The same year that Pinkerton appointed Warne head of the Female Detective Bureau, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency, outraging the Southern states that had seceded from the Union. Their secession created hostilities and disruptions in trade, including reports of threats to the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Pinkerton sent Warne and other agents to Maryland to investigate. On February 2, 1861, after Warne informed him about a plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln, Pinkerton assigned her to Baltimore to find out more. As she did in the Maroney case, Warne disguised herse…

Con Watch: Tips for Scam-Free Travel
type: item
creator: Steve Weisman
date: 2026-06-02T13:00:22Z
subject: Articles
subject: Con Watch
description: Don’t let scammers ruin your summer vacation. Con Watch: Tips for Scam-Free Travel The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: “Summertime,” goes the classic George Gershwin song from Porgy and Bess, “and the living is easy.” Many people look forward to summer vacation all year. Unfortunately, scam artists — the only criminals we refer to as artists — do as well, because all too often the scamming is easy. Here are three common vacation scams and how you can avoid them. H.R. Vacation Scam: You get an email that appears to come from your employer’s Human Resources Department, asking you to follow a link to submit your request for vacation time. Clicking on the link can cause you to download dangerous malware or trick you into providing your online credentials, giving scammers access to your company’s computers and data. How to avoid it: Never click on a link or provide personal information in response to an email or text message unless you have confirmed that the communication is legitimate. If you receive a communication that appears to come from your H.R. Department, contact the department directly through an official company email or phone number. Car Rental Scam: Scammers create phony car rental company websites that appear to be legitimate. A.I. has made it easy for even technologically unsophisticated scammers to create such counterfeit sites. SEO poisoning is a cyber­attack method in which criminals manipulate search engine rankings to push harmful websites to the top of search results. The websites can look legitimate, and the online ads can look polished, but you can bet that any money you pay to them won’t go toward renting you a car. How to avoid it: Phony car rental websites can be hard to distinguish from websites of real rental companies. Always check the website’s URL carefully before responding to an offer. Is that O really a zero, or that capital I really a lowercase L? Go the extra step and determine who owns the website. There are several ways of doing this. One of the easiest is to go to ICANN (lookup.icann.org), enter the domain name, and click on “Lookup”; it can tell y…

Slave Patrols Didn’t Just Oppress Enslaved People
type: item
creator: Ryan Reft
date: 2026-06-01T13:00:24Z
subject: Articles
subject: History
description: Maintaining slavery necessitated the construction of large surveillance apparatus driven by fear and held together by the deployment of violence. But this larger infrastructure also impeded the rights of white Americans. Slave Patrols Didn’t Just Oppress Enslaved People The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: In an April 22, 1820, letter to Massachusetts representative John Holmes, Thomas Jefferson encapsulated the nation’s struggle over the vexing issue of slavery: “As it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.” Jefferson’s quote underscored both slavery’s power and fragility: It was a brutal system that enslaved millions and delivered great wealth but required constant vigilance and filled enslavers, like Jefferson, with nightmares of rebellion. Maintaining slavery necessitated the construction of large surveillance apparatus driven by fear and held together by the deployment of violence. This surveillance was meant to control enslaved people as well as freed Black people (who were seen as a dangerous contagion carrying the disease of freedom). But this larger infrastructure also impeded the rights of white Americans and contributed to future violations of civil rights. Securing labor in North America was always difficult. As a result, controlling workers required the threat and deployment of violence. Virginia, which heavily influenced slave control structure across the colonies and states, enacted coercive measures to control labor — first over indentured servants and later the enslaved. In his study of colonial Virginia, American Slavery, American Freedom, historian Edmund S. Morgan wrote, “Virginians dealt in servants the way Englishmen dealt in land or chattel.” Servants, and later slaves, were little more than “machines,” Virginia’s treatment of labor “producing fortunes for a few, misery for many.” One of the key methods used to oppress and control enslaved and free Black people was the use of slave patrols. Slave patrols did not formally coalesce until the second half of the seventeenth century, based on the widely imitated Barbadian slave code passed initially in 1661. South Carolina, the first colony to organize slave patrols, replicated the Barbadian code in its 1696 law, which “enjoined town constables to organiz…

Patsy Mink’s Battle for Fundamental Human Rights
type: item
creator: Sena Ho
date: 2026-05-29T15:09:02Z
subject: Articles
subject: History
subject: People
description: The first Asian American woman to hold a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives fought for what she argued were the most basic needs of our society. Patsy Mink’s Battle for Fundamental Human Rights The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: In 1947, Patsy Takemoto Mink wrote to the University of Nebraska’s student paper, The Daily Nebraskan, “When I arrived here, I hoped I could find some link with what I was told America was like. I cannot understand how people, believing they belong to the greatest nation on this Earth, can tolerate such lowly practices.” Her comments addressed the university’s then segregated housing policy that prohibited non-white students from residing within the main dormitory. Seventeen years later, Mink would walk the steps of Capitol Hill as the first Asian American and non-white woman to hold a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Her journey began on the sugar plantations of Maui, where she was raised as a third-generation immigrant to Japanese grandparents. Growing up on the sugarcane fields, Mink noticed how her Asian and Native Hawaiian neighbors were segregated from the plantation’s often white landowners. Mink’s father, inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt and his experience as the plantation’s land surveyor, was adamant about educating his children on issues of politics. Unlike the other kids, Mink spent much time attending local election rallies with her siblings. It was from listening to campaign speeches and tuning into FDR’s radio addresses that Mink understood the potential politics had to improve daily life. The Japanese-American experience changed dramatically after the attack on Pearl Harbor, just a day after Mink’s 14th birthday. Japanese-Americans in Hawaiʻi were not confined to internment camps like those on the mainland, but were still seen as suspect and controlled under martial law for the next two years. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, a historian at UC Berkeley, and Gwendolyn Mink, Patsy Mink’s daughter, write that it was in the years following Pearl Harbor when she “developed a painful awareness of racial, linguistic, and class hierarchies, instituted into the fabric of the school system.” Despite the ever-shifting racial dynamics and witnessing her fathe…

Classic Covers: Rural Wedding by John Clymer
type: item
creator: Post Editors
date: 2026-05-29T13:00:02Z
subject: Archives
subject: Articles
subject: Cover Art
description: Clymer’s Rural Wedding appeared on the May 29, 1954, cover of the Post. Classic Covers: Rural Wedding by John Clymer The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Scenes from small-town America: Part of the Post’s fame rested on its reputation for capturing the scenes and spirit of America’s villages and towns. Norman Rockwell was just one artist who painted in this vein. Just as important was John Clymer, who painted the passing seasons of nature and life far from the city. In his landscapes, which ranged from suburbs to wilderness, he captured moments of picturesque childhood, tranquil nature, and family life — scenes presented as they’re recalled in happy memories. He specialized in aerial landscapes, as seen here, which enabled him to include more detail and an evocative stretch of landscape. Clymer’s Rural Wedding appeared on the May 29, 1954, cover of the Post. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1200128" data-permalink="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/05/classic-covers-rural-wedding-by-john-clymer/lastpage_clymer_600no_9540529-full/" data-orig-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/LastPage_Clymer_600no_9540529-full.jpg" data-orig-size="860,880" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="LastPage_Clymer_600no_9540529-full" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/LastPage_Clymer_600no_9540529-full-500x512.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1200128" src="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/LastPage_Clymer_600no_9540529-full.jpg" alt="" width="860" height="880" srcset="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/LastPage_Clymer_600no_9540529-full.jpg 860w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/LastPage_Clymer_600no_9540529-full-400x409.jpg 400w, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads…

News of the Week: Goodbye Schlitz, Hello Typos, and the Best Place to Live in the U.S.
type: item
creator: Bob Sassone
date: 2026-05-29T12:00:52Z
subject: Articles
subject: News of the Week
description: In the news of the week ending May 29, 2026, are beer, best cities, and beating AI at its own game. News of the Week: Goodbye Schlitz, Hello Typos, and the Best Place to Live in the U.S. The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: When You’re Out of Schlitz, You’re Out of Beer I’m not the biggest beer drinker in the world, but when I do buy beer, I have to admit that Schlitz is probably the last beer I think of. Okay, that’s not really fair. I have nothing at all against Schlitz beer. It’s the gateway beer (along with Budweiser) for a lot of people when they first starting drinking beer. I loved the commercials. I remember my family drinking it in the ’70s. Maybe it’s just that I stopped thinking about Schlitz when I moved on to Sam Adams and Blue Moon. (The last beer I would buy is Guinness, which is too strong and thick and almost chewy for my liking.) But I think people who regularly drink beer have their favorites, and the people who make Schlitz have discovered that theirs isn’t one of them. After 177 years, Schlitz has ceased production. Officially it’s on “hiatus,” which means “maybe we’ll be it back for nostalgia purposes at some point but probably not.” Indiana Wants Me, But I Can’t Go Back There What’s the best place to live in America? Well, I think I gave the answer away above but I haven’t told you which particular cities are the best according to U.S. News & World Report. You can click on that link to find the top two places to live (and the other 248). Coming in third is Flower Mound, Texas. Other places that made it into the top ten include Ankeny, Iowa and Hoover, Alabama. Massachusetts, where I live, usually has cities near the top on lists like this, but the highest-ranked city is Newton, at 116. That can’t be right. Indiana Wants Me (Uploaded to YouTube by R. Dean Taylor – Topic) I Typo, Therefore I Am This is what artificial intelligence has driven us to. Because people are so worried that others will think what they’ve written was actually written by AI — whatever you do, don’t use an em dash! — they are purposely inserting typos into their text. Apparently, mistakes, even if they’re on purpose, are how we prove ourselves human now. (Too bad most resumes are read by mach…

In a Word: What’s the Gossip?
type: item
creator: Andy Hollandbeck
date: 2026-05-28T18:18:22Z
subject: Articles
subject: In a Word
subject: Language
description: Have you heard about what this word used to mean? In a Word: What’s the Gossip? The Saturday Evening Post
encoded: Senior managing editor and logophile Andy Hollandbeck reveals the sometimes surprising roots of common English words and phrases. Remember: Etymology tells us where a word comes from, but not what it means today. In some Christian traditions, infant baptism involves not only the parents, child, and church, but other people who sponsor the baptism and who promise to help guide the child’s spiritual growth. Today, we call these people godparents. Becoming a godparent links the adult and the baptized child spiritually, and the word godparent indicates that one is the child’s “parent” not through blood but through God. The tradition is an old one, going back more than a millennium. But a millennium ago, during the Old English period, they weren’t called godparents; the word parent wouldn’t arrive in the language until after 1066. In Old English, a godparent was called a godsibb. The word sibb (which lives on today in the word sibling) meant “blood relative.” Like a godparent, a godsibb was an adult who was related to the child through God rather than through blood, but without the inherent parent-child structure of godparent. If you’ve ever been around an infant, you know how horrible they are at even the simplest conversation. This has always been true. Interactions between a baby and a godparent/godsibb must be mediated through the child’s parents or other godparents, which can create stronger bonds among the adults involved even while they focus on the child’s needs. Godsibb, then, came to indicate the relationship between the godparent and the child’s parents or between multiple godparents of the same child. Naturally, these are pretty close and amiable relationships, so during the Middle English period, the word came to describe any close friendship. The word itself changed, too. Godsibb over time became more clipped, evolving into gossip. And what do friends do when they get together? They chat. They natter and jabber, kibitz and prattle. Sometimes about other peo…