Grass for baskets is gathered in the summer on coastal hillsides; the weaver bundles, ages, sorts, dries, and splits the stems to prepare them. At least eight weaving patterns are historically known.

Ed Norton stars in director Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, which, as far as we can tell, has very little to do with the Walt Whitman classic that Bill Clinton once gave to Monica Lewinsky.

The plane, carrying nine passengers and a pilot, went down in Norton Sound, approximately 34 miles south-east of Nome, a coastal city in western Alaska. The remains of all onboard were discovered the ...