Charles Kuralt's American Moments Book

	Preface	11
	Foreword	15
	American Emblems
	The Cords of Winter	20
	Wind and Water	22
	Fun on the Hoof	25
	Under the Big Top	26
	The Little Red Wagon	28
	The Once and Future Fair	31
	The Last of the Red, White, and Blue	32
	Sentinels of the Desert	34
	Proof Through the Night	36
	A Stone Wall	38
	Still Humming Along	39
	Fenders and Flaps	41
	Candy Clouds	42
	For Whom the Bell Tolls	44
	The Great American Hat	46
	American Originals
	Landing for Lunch	50
	Our Great Woodsman	53
	Upright Announcements	54
	No Large Envelopes, Please	57
	The Heights of Technology	58
	At the Market	60
	Lucy	62
	A New Dish	64
	The Lincoln Highway	67
	A Burst of Speed	68
	The Barbershop Blues	70
	American Portraits
	A Man of the Road	74
	Lions and Tigers and Bears	76
	Mending Their Majesties	78
	The Sounds of Silence	80
	A Man of Parts	82
	Home, Tiny Home	84
	The Swift Completion	86
	Big Ship, Small Shed	89
	Cold, and Colder Still	90
	American Shrines
	Sullivan's Island	94
	Noah Webster's House	96
	Mr. DeLeo's Monument	98
	The Czar's America	100
	When Shots Rang Out	101
	Grant's Tomb	102
	At the Pump	104
	The Store That Was	106
	The Ups and Downs of the Everglades	109
	Hanauma Bay	110
	Land's End	113
	A Railroad Palace	114
	Rain Above, River Below	116
	American Makers
	The President's Shoes	120
	Swept into Office	122
	Philip Simmons of Charleston	125
	A Maker of Whirligigs	126
	Master of the Victrola	128
	A Tune on the Chopping Block	130
	A Cymbal of America	131
	Turning Back the Clock	132
	Dragonflies, Indeed	134
	A Brush with the Past	136
	The Strength of Sweet Grass	138
	The Fiddler of America	140
	American Dreamers
	With Hope in Hand	144
	Trombone Shorty	146
	Play Ball!	148
	And Then the Curtain Fell	150
	By the Billion	153
	Flowers That Fly	154
	A Gift of Wisdom	157
	His Big Small World	158
	The Call of the Wild	160
	American Sights
	Snow Geese	165
	The Valley of the Eagles	166
	Giants in the Earth	169
	In the Shallows	170
	Windblown Seeds	171
	Key Deer	172
	Among the Swans	174
	A World of Ice	177
	The Unstoppable Sand	178
	Bundles of Blooms	180
	Stone New Yorkers	182
	Brief Beauty	185
	American Heirlooms
	Heavenly Windows, Hellish Hate	188
	Hoppin' John	190
	Let There Be Light	192
	America's Sunrise	194
	The Weight of Progress	195
	The Devil's Rope	196
	Ink in the Blood	198
	Elephants of the Harbor	201
	The Last of Jesse James	202
	Wind Your Bobbin	204
	Good Things Come in Big Boxes Too	206
	The Towers Atop the Towers of New York	208
	Scratched in the Landscape	210
	American Ways
	Skipping Stones	214
	The Ferry at Los Ebanos	216
	The Blessing of the Fleet	218
	A Rite of Spring	220
	Miss Indian World	221
	Of Horse and Man	222
	Pilottown	225
	The Canal	226
	Dog Power	228
	Little Fish, Big Buildings	230
	Roll, Cross, and Flip	231
	American Notions
	The Right Tool	234
	All Downhill from Here	236
	A Click Heard 'Round the World	238
	Smoke Signals	240
	And the Cares That Hung Around Me Through the Week	243
	The Music of the Map	244
	Seeing the Light	246
	Squinting Scientists	248
	Winter's Wild Rides	250
	About Time	252
	On Paper Wings	253
	The Road Less Traveled	254
	Acknowledgments	256