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Buried under the drifts in Washington, D.C., we turn to artful descriptions of snow from some favorite writers — in the hands of a good storyteller, snow can be magical, or monstrous. We sample works from Ezra Jack Keats, Laura Ingalls Wilder and, of course, Robert Frost.

Hall Overton was a tall, modest, Midwestern, chain-smoking college instructor of classical music at Juilliard. But at the Jazz Loft, he was living, teaching music and playing piano with greats like Thelonious Monk.

The Dove & The Wolf, "Seven Days"

Commentator Baxter Black sings his version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

On the fifth day of Christmas, Ask Me Another gave to me: Jonathan Coulton in a tux! Check out this old photo we dug up of Coulton's days as a Whiffenpoof (That's a collegiate a cappella group...not a type of exotic bird.)

EARTH DAY BEGAN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES 25 YEARS AGO, AND PHILIP DAVIS TAKES A LOOK AT THE STATE OF CURRENT STUDENT ENVIRONMENTALISM.

Bob Edwards looks at what Veterans Day means to some Americans.

Commentator Marion Roach tells the story of a cross-town Thanksgiving Day taxi cab ride.

A woodchuck spent ten ecstatic days in Commentator David Budbill's garden before Budbill shot it, to preserve his vegetables. Budbill grieves for the woodchuck and for himself.

A Connecticut TV station reported the outbreak of "Hump Day" popularity at a local middle school school. Here & Now finds out what the fuss was about.