Narratively

When her husband died and left her penniless, audacious Adelaide Hermann transformed from lowly assistant to “the Queen of Magic.”

In between the concrete and congestion, the city sustains some awe-inspiring arbors. And each one has a story of the humans who’ve nurtured them over the centuries.

Behind the American Museum of Natural History’s most venerable artifact is the shameful tale of a relentless explorer and a young boy’s torturous journey from Greenland to New York.