Saturday Evening Post Magazine

1 week ago | saturdayeveningpost.com | Wayne Gardiner

The victim was an older woman, a widow of more than 20 years. She left behind a sizeable estate — more than $6 million in cash, property, and investments. Two grown sons survived her, both now in their 60s. One daughter-in-law. No grandchildren. No brothers or sisters. Not a large circle of friends. No obvious enemies, either. Robbery had not been the motive. The only item unaccounted for in the house: a boning knife missing from the Wusthof cutlery set on the kitchen countertop.

1 week ago | saturdayeveningpost.com | Troy Brownfield

In the early 2000s, my wife and I took a digital photography class. Within the first few minutes, the instructor dropped a liberating bit of philosophy: Since we were no longer bound by 24-shot rolls of film, we could take as many pictures as we want at all times. Gone were the frustrations of jockeying for the perfect snap and worrying about “wasting” a picture. With a digital camera, we could fire that shutter like a machine gun and then find the perfect shot among the crowd.

2 weeks ago | saturdayeveningpost.com | Todd Davis

Miles from any town, fishing alone on a small stream of no significance to anyone but us, we hear the first, faint rumble. I ignore it, tell myself a waterfall ahead must be sending the sound down. The sky to the east remains clear, so I look in that direction. My son Noah, conditioned from years of playing college basketball, moves confidently through pools and over boulders the size of small cars. We wade the center of the stream, focused on our casts and the curling water around us.

2 weeks ago | saturdayeveningpost.com | Teresa Bitler

As any of its guides will emphatically explain, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is NOT a traditional art museum, and I could see why when I entered the main gallery. Instead of paintings in a straight line at eye level, the foundation’s masterpieces hang in groupings collector Albert C. Barnes called “ensembles.” No placards identify the paintings or name their artists, predominantly Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and other late 19th and early 20th century greats.

2 weeks ago | saturdayeveningpost.com | Lisa Mitchell

—From “Michael Landon: Big Man in a Little House” by Lisa Mitchell, from the September 1980 issue of The Saturday Evening PostNBC publicist Bill Kiley affectionately says of Michael Landon that “he can run a studio, but he can’t run himself.” So there is always someone to put gas in his car because he doesn’t “remember” to do it.