The physical heart of town might be the harbor, where Kaunakakai’s half-mile pier—the longest in Hawaii—stretches into the Kalohi Channel like an exclamation point.

Scene: the Midwest in midcentury. The Madison, Wisconsin, neighborhood lived through the 1930s and 1940s, depression, wartime and ...

The best semi-auto shotguns fire rounds reliably and cycle quickly. Even in lighter platforms, they soak up recoil and swing ...