FEATURED STORIES FOR NOVEMBER 2025

The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Gunga Din, If … the novels, short stories and poetry of Rudyard Kipling capture the imagination. The life of this Anglo-Indian Nobel Prize winner is no less fascinating.

The huge mounds east of St. Louis, Missouri unveil to us many clues to the Mississippian culture that existed around 1100 AD. It is estimated that, at one time, 10,000 people lived around and near these mounds. It’s a fascinating story of early America and what might have happened to them.

COMING IN DECEMBER 2025

Would you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island? Well, we may not be able to go there, but we’ll get as close as possible. Spotlights of the story include red crabs, phosphate, and the 1942 WWII Battle of Christmas Island … Oh, and the song as well!