The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post, America’s oldest magazine, is a bimonthly publication dedicated to celebrating America – past, present and future. The Post delivers an historic perspective on the news that only a publication with its deep roots can provide.

The Saturday Evening Post

THE CALL OF THE WEST

CONTRIBUTORS

HIKING INTO THE PAST • Traveling through time on America’s national historic trails

THE AUTOMATION PARADOX • Computers were supposed to reduce office labor. They accomplished the opposite

PUNCH LIST • Many of us fume about our pet peeves, but I dream of something more: payback

THE CRAVING • How far would a displaced New Yorker go for the perfect pastrami sandwich?

FEED BIRDS, NOT SQUIRRELS! • TIPS, TACTICS, AND TRENDS — WHAT’S NEW AND NOTEWORTHY NOW!

Mint Condition

Seriously Good Film and TV • Film critic Bill Newcott offers his entertainment picks for mature audiences

Don McLean • Fifty years after “American Pie,” the folk musician is still connecting with the heart of America

Doodle Boy

THE GRID: MEMORIALS, MARKERS, AND PLAQUES

The Logophile

Break the Code

Rubber Boot Planter

Goat Cheese Bruschetta

Meditation

Bus Is the New Jet

NEVER LOSE A BAG

Desert Magic • Artist Ed Mell creates paintings and sculptures that capture the majesty and spirit of the American West

NANCY REAGAN’S HIDDEN POWER • Her outsized role in protecting and shaping the Reagan presidency

CREATURES OF THE DEEP • Many of the ocean’s inhabitants spend most of their lives in near darkness. To compensate, almost all of them make their own light

“Maybe I Have 10 More Years. What a Gift!” • Garrison Keillor is focusing on the inexorable decrepitude that accompanies aging — as well as the manifold pleasures that accrue as you arrive there

QUIP LIST

SWISHER SWEETS

SEE YOUR STORY PUBLISHED HERE!

Your Health • SMART IDEAS FROM LEADING EXPERTS IN MEDICINE

HIDE THE SCALE

FROM THE PHARMACY

VITAMINS AND EYE HEALTH

FOR THE HALIBUT • Easy enough for a weeknight meal yet elegant enough for a dinner party, these fish recipes are sure to impress

AN ACCIDENT CHANGED HIS LIFE • After overcoming a devastating spinal cord injury, Roy Tuscany is helping others to recover and thrive

THE UNEXPECTED COWBOY • Contrary to what we learned watching Westerns, a substantial number of cattlemen on the frontier were Black

GAME ANSWERS

Did you find Ben Franklin’s hidden key?

PLAYING DOCTOR WHY BEN CASEY IS ALL THE RAGE • Originally published 1962

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Men I’m Not Married To • In 1922, humorist and Algonquin Round Table regular Dorothy Parker took pen to paper to gleefully describe the many men whose clutches she’d escaped

Reappraising Jackie • In 1962, the first lady made a goodwill trip to India without her charismatic husband, revealing her strong individual presence and regal character when she stepped out from JFK’s shadow

FULLER BRUSH-OFF

TENNISSTARREFLECTSONGENDERBIAS • Between 1919 and 1928, Helen Wills won Wimbledon eight times. Here, in mid-career, she shares her thoughts on America’s evolving view of women in sports

ANTIDOTE FOR MOVIE VIOLENCE • A small-town movie theater owner was surprised by the crowds who flocked to see an old-fashioned tear-jerker

LIMERICK LAUGHS • The Saturday Evening Post will award $25 to the author of the winning limerick for the illustration below by Norman Rockwell.

“Son, We Need to Talk”

New Times