have been considerably renovated with a view to raising the property to the status of the Great Classified Vintages of Saint-Émilion.

St. Emilion

Marked by its historic fortified village—perhaps the prettiest in all of Bordeaux, the St-Émilion appellation, along with its neighboring village of Pomerol, are leaders in quality on the Right Bank of Bordeaux. These Merlot-dominant red wines (complemented by various amounts of Cabernet Franc and/or Cabernet Sauvignon) remain some of the most admired and collected wines of the world.

St-Émilion has the longest history in wine production in Bordeaux—longer than the Left Bank—dating back to an 8th century monk named Saint Émilion who became a hermit in one of the many limestone caves scattered throughout the area.

Today St-Émilion is made up of hundreds of independent farmers dedicated to theJanuary 11, 2012

THIRTY CENTS could make the difference between eating and starving.

That's what sent tens of thousands of workers in Lawrence, Mass., out of the textile factories and onto the picket line in January 1912 in one the fiercest battles in U.S. labor history. The struggle of the workers--most of them immigrants--was to defend their wages, but also for dignity and respect.

Conditions for the men, women and children of Lawrence--nearly all of whom depended on wages earned at the textile factories--were unspeakable. It was not unusual for women, who made up a large part of the workforce, to give birth at work, between the looms. And while it was illegal to employ a child under 14, half of the children of Lawrence between 14 and 18 years old