Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century. By Holland Cotter The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

This is the first part of a three-part series. Read the second part. There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to be in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the ...