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In Defense of a Little Loneliness: A Lesson From Self-Reliant Outdoorsman Dick Proenneke

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By Jason Nark Verified
| Outside Magazine Verified
After a divorce, I traveled to Alaska for healing and inspiration, following the footsteps of a legendary outdoorsman. What I discovered about the “male loneliness epidemic” wasn’t a cure—it was a way to live. Resurrection Bay with snowcapped mountains in background. (Photo: Getty) On the longest solo trip of my life, I stepped off a two-seat float plane onto the rocky shore of Upper Twin Lake in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park.
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A cow beauty pageant honors rural Pennsylvania’s shrinking dairy industry

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By Jason Nark Verified
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
TOWANDA, Pa. — Her full name was Cashells Jry Shakira-Red-ET — Shakira to keep it simple — and like her namesake, the big red and white Holstein had 6-foot hips that didn’t lie as she hoofed down Main Street. Shakira is a showgirl accustomed to winning, one of the few cows that allowed judges to place a floral crown on her head at the Bradford County dairy cow beauty pageant in Towanda on June 20, about 100 years after their last one.
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How Philly neighborhood block parties celebrate the 4th

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By Jason Nark Verified, Brett Sholtis Verified, Henry Savage Verified
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
Few things are more American, more emblematic of our collective melting pot, than a city block party on the Fourth of July. Neighbors catch up to hold new babies and learn who’s passed. They talk about the Sixers trade or their latest surgeries, and, of course, the heat that hangs all over us. Hopefully, someone’s inflating a pool or filling a water balloon. Everyone and everything is sweating, including the beers.
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