Conor Knighton
Correspondent at CBS News Sunday Morning
Correspondent @CBSSunday. I've been to all our National Parks and what feels like 40% of our Hampton Inns. Leave Only Footprints is on sale now https://t.co/H4AVTMb7XU
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1 week ago |
cbsnews.com | Conor Knighton
Spread out across 200 acres in Northwest Louisiana, Chimp Haven is the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary. Every detail, from the moat to the meal plan, has been designed to ensure the more than 300 residents here are getting the most out of their retirement years. "A lot of the chimpanzees that are here, they spent decades in biomedical research before coming to sanctuary, but Chimp Haven provides their happy endings," said Rana Smith, the president and CEO of Chimp Haven.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Conor Knighton
When Mike Wallace interviewed Salvador Dalí in 1958, the painter seemed to believe that he might live forever. Asked what he believed would happen to him when he died, the Surrealist replied, "Myself not believe in my death.""You will not die?""No, no. Believe in general in death, but in the death of Dalí? Absolutely no, not."Dalí did die, in 1989. But in a way, he was right. The artist lives on at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Conor Knighton
When British novelist J.B. Priestley visited the Grand Canyon in the 1930s, he described it as "all of Beethoven's nine symphonies in stone and magic light." "If I were an American," he wrote, "I should make my remembrance of it the final test of men, art, and policies … Every member or officer of the federal government ought to remind himself, with triumphant pride, that he is on the staff of the Grand Canyon." In February, as part of the Trump Administration's effort to shrink the size of...
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2 months ago |
aol.com | Conor Knighton
The sprawling Black Beauty Ranch, in East Texas, takes its name from the classic 1877 novel. Narrated by a horse, "Black Beauty" encouraged readers see the world from an animal's point of view. "The story of 'Black Beauty' is about coming home, and feeling free and safe, and so, this is what all these animals get to do," said Kitty Block, the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, the non-profit which funds Black Beauty as a sanctuary.
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2 months ago |
cbsnews.com | Conor Knighton
The sprawling Black Beauty Ranch, in East Texas, takes its name from the classic 1877 novel. Narrated by a horse, "Black Beauty" encouraged readers see the world from an animal's point of view. "The story of 'Black Beauty' is about coming home, and feeling free and safe, and so, this is what all these animals get to do," said Kitty Block, the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, the non-profit which funds Black Beauty as a sanctuary.
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