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The year was 1976, and the country was 200 years young. The gritty film Rocky filled movie theaters and a new TV show, "The Bionic Woman," flashed across TV screens. It was a time happily poised between the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of long gas station lines.

On June 30, an era draws to a close at The Huntington as President Steve Koblik steps up to his well-deserved retirement. Before we turn the page to the next chapter in our history, Susan Turner-Lowe, vice president for communications and marketing at The Huntington, casts an eye over the life

The Huntington's Education staff recently formed a partnership with WriteGirl, a Los Angeles–based creative writing and mentoring organization that, according to the WriteGirl website, "launched in December 2001 to bring the skills and energy of professional women writers to teenage girls

Few people can make literature jump off the page like Kevin Gilmartin. Professor of English and 2015 recipient of the Richard Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Caltech, he has taught at The Huntington's neighbor institution for 24 years.

The botanical world is full of surprises, as any of the thousands of people who've visited the Amorphophallus titanum in bloom might tell you. Wild sizes, outrageous colors, complex patterns, otherworldly shapes

We asked Tim Harris, professor of European History at Brown University and the 2014–15 Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, to share his memories as an English youth in the environs of Runnymede

As a research horticulturist and coordinator of the Huntington Ranch Garden, I spend my days on this half-acre experimental site working to create a balance between a productive garden, a livable space, and a wildish ecosystem.

Los Angeles ceramist Doyle Lane (1925–2002) became known for his collectible "weed pots," as he called his vases with small openings for holding a few stems, and for what he called "clay paintings"—geometric and boldly colored ceramic disks—that have been compared