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Preview: Living the van life

May 26: Moving out of your house to live in a van is becoming a new trend among those seeking a more freewheeling lifestyle. Tony Dokoupil decided to try it out

  • Rundown:

  • This week on "Sunday Morning" (May 26)

    This week on "Sunday Morning" (May 26)

    A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning Sunday morning news program
  • Emigration, full circle: Returning to the old country

    Emigration, full circle: Returning to the old country

    Generations after their ancestors emigrated from Italy to the New World, Americans are themselves emigrating back to the Old World and, thanks to their Italian bloodlines, claiming citizenship
  • Creating an irresistible mozzarella

    Creating an irresistible mozzarella

    At the organic cheesemaker Tenuta Vannulo, in southern Italy, the specialty is fresh buffalo mozzarella, using the milk of some very pampered buffaloes
  • The birthplace of Pinocchio

    The birthplace of Pinocchio

    The tiny Tuscan town of Collodi is where the wooden puppet who would become a live boy was born – the protagonist of a coming-of-age story much darker than the familiar Disney film
  • Under the Tuscan sun with author Frances Mayes

    Under the Tuscan sun with author Frances Mayes

    With a sense of adventure, the writer restored her 300-year-old house, making it the star of an international bestseller

    • Recipes from Frances Mayes
  • Florence: A history

    Florence: A history

    For centuries the Italian city has been a hub of trade and commerce, and an historic center for art and architecture

    • David, the quintessence of Renaissance art

    • Treasures of the Uffizi
  • Florentine artisans: Preserving the traditions of Medici taste

    Florentine artisans: Preserving the traditions of Medici taste

    The Italian city still has a thriving culture of artisanship, with historic roots that go back 600 years
  • "Sunday Morning" theme in Italy

    "Sunday Morning" theme in Italy

    Cellist Christian Grosselfinger performs the "Sunday Morning" fanfare, "Abblasen," on the streets of Florence

    • A "Sunday Morning" sun in Florence

  • Moments in Nature:

  • Tuscan countryside

    Tuscan countryside

    "Sunday Morning" takes us to Villa Le Corti, just outside Florence. Videographer: Mike Hernandez.

    • Watch more extended videos of our Moment in Nature

    • The videographers who capture "Sunday Morning" Moments of Nature

  • Nature up close:

  • Our javelina scare

    A trip through the Amazon brought Judy Lehmberg up-close-and-personal with a herd of peccaries

  • Nature up close: Wild horses of the Outer Banks

  • Nature up close: A red fox family in Yellowstone

  • Nature up close: The intelligence of ravens

  • Nature up close: Super blooms

  • The evolving Howard Stern

    The broadcasting giant discusses his latest book, "Howard Stern Comes Again," and how psychotherapy and a serious health scare changed the way he approaches celebrity interviews - and himself

  • Extended transcript: Howard Stern

  • Tony nominee:

  • Bryan Cranston in "Network"

    Bryan Cranston in "Network"

    The star talks with Ted Koppel about Howard Beale, the "Mad Prophet of the Airwaves," in the Broadway adaptation of the classic film "Network"

  • Tony nominee:

  • Playwright Taylor Mac on "Gary": Following in Shakespeare's bloody footsteps

    The performance artist and author, who's made a career of challenging audience expectations, has written the unlikeliest of black comedies as a sequel to the Bard's most violent play

  • Tony nominees:

  • "Ain't Too Proud": The Temptations' story comes to Broadway

    A new musical recreates the era of the Motown greats

  • Jeff Daniels on "To Kill a Mockingbird"

  • "The Waverly Gallery" and its personal story of dementia

  • The revolutionary "The Boys in the Band"

  • On books:

  • Harper Lee, true crime writer

    For years the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" researched a true-crime novel based on a series of mysterious deaths in Alabama; a new book explores the case, and Harper Lee's fascination with it

  • A visit to the Metropol, star of "A Gentleman in Moscow"

  • Delia Owens on "Where the Crawdads Sing"

  • Novelist Don Winslow on "The Border," both literary and political

  • Books produced by hand

  • Travels with the "Green Book"

  • Louise Penny: How writing became her solace

  • Encyclopedia Britannica is turning 250 – look it up!

  • Bob Woodward: "People better wake up to what's going on" in the Oval Office

  • Seymour Hersh: The life of a "Reporter"

  • The essential Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Ann Patchett: Writer, and purveyor, of books

  • In case you missed:

  • The Central Park Five speak

    Wrongly convicted as teenagers for a crime that shocked New York City, the five exonerated men are subjects of a new Netflix miniseries, "When They See Us"

  • Teaching anti-vax parents to trust science and the MMR vaccine

  • Work remotely? Tulsa, Oklahoma wants you (and your laptop) to move

  • Calling it quits: When leaving your job is the right thing to do

  • Pete Buttigieg on the presidency as a "moral office"

  • A lost girl's diary: The hidden anguish of Alexandra Valoras

  • Critical condition: The crisis of rural medical care

  • Feeling lonely? You're not alone

  • The longest hatred: Anti-Semitism on the rise

  • The chronicles of "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau

  • Hearing aids: You ain't heard nothing yet

  • Maternal mortality: An American crisis

  • Nancy Pelosi named recipient of Profile in Courage Award

  • On art:

  • Frida Kahlo: The unapologetic artist

    As evident in a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, there is so much more to the famed painter than meets the eye

  • Bill Traylor: The imaginative art of a freed slave

  • Rock relics at New York's Metropolitan Museum

  • Potter and author Edmund de Waal on the poetry of objects

  • Lisbon street artist "Vhils": How Alexandre Farto scrapes and carves art into cityscapes

  • Using high-tech tools to recreate and preserve ancient treasures

  • Georgia O'Keeffe and her visions of Hawaii

  • The restless perfectionism of Alberto Giacometti

  • Balloon art: A POP! culture competition

  • How Georg Baselitz turned the art world upside-down

  • The pioneering prints of Dox Thrash

  • M.C. Escher: A mind-bending exhibition

  • Tarsila, the "Picasso of Brazil"

  • De-constructing the art of Anselm Kiefer

  • Artist Françoise Gilot, on life with and after Picasso

  • 40 years of "Sunday Morning"

  • A history of "Sunday Morning"

    Jane Pauley turns back the calendar to January 28, 1979, the very beginning of "Sunday Morning," and looks at how over the last four decades the broadcast has stayed true to Charles Kuralt's vision – traveling the back roads, taking our audience places and showing them things they wouldn't see anywhere else on television, to make sure "gentler subjects" get their due.

  • The roads less traveled

  • The bold-faced interviews

  • Stories with heart

  • The artist's vision

  • Web exclusive:

  • Don Felder plays "Hotel California" at the Met

    Don Felder plays "Hotel California" at the Met

    Museum quality: Don Felder picked up his double-neck guitar and played for "Sunday Morning" The Eagles' classic, "Hotel California"

  • On fashion:

  • The colorful history of pink

    Originally a symbol of the aristocracy, the color's later association with gender stereotypes would leave some seeing red; yet pink has become embraced by activists as representing power that cannot be ignored

  • Ralph Lauren: "I feel cooler now than ever"

  • Maye Musk, the silver cover girl

  • Maye Musk, the silver cover girl

  • Twiggy, still in fashion

  • Stella McCartney: Fashion with a conscience

  • Betsey Johnson, fashion's free spirit

  • Michael Kors: Still on the cutting edge

  • From the archives:

  • From 1994: A retirement home for horses

    Correspondent Martha Teichner visited the Retirement Home for Horses at Mill Creek Farm, in Alachua, Fla., whose owners, Peter and Mary Gregory, provide a bucolic home for police and military horses that have finished their working careers, or elderly equines that have been abused, neglected or abandoned

  • 2010: A rare look at author Philip Roth

  • 2010: Florence Henderson, America's Mom

  • 2008: Marni Nixon, singing voice of the stars

  • 2007: Anthony Bourdain, the culinary bad boy

  • 2007: Bill Geist keeps germs at bay

  • 2006: Neil Simon's storied career

  • 2006: Writer Tom Wolfe on journalism and voyeurism

  • 2005: The confidential Tab Hunter

  • 2005: The wilder side of Gene Wilder

  • 2005: Leonard Nimoy on "Star Trek"

  • 2004: Roger Bannister on breaking the 4:00 mile

  • 2004: Carrie Fisher

  • 2003: Extreme ironing

  • 2001: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark

  • 2000: Mementos at the Wall

  • 1999: Goats as lawn mowers

  • 1996: A landmark Vermeer exhibition

  • 1996: School of Circus Arts

  • 1995: Celebrating the first ATM

  • 1995: Author Pat Conroy

  • 1994: The "unsinkable" Debbie Reynolds

  • 1992: Ode to Secretariat

  • 1991: Route 66, the "Main Street of America"

  • 1990: Rescuing horses for adoption

  • 1988: Bill Geist and the art of curling

  • 1982: Artist Keith Haring

  • 1980: Peter O'Toole talks "Macbeth"

  • Sting, Trudie Styler, and a villa in Italy

    Sting, Trudie Styler, and a villa in Italy

    The singer-musician and his wife bought the dilapidated, 400-year-old Il Palagio, in Tuscany, for a song or two, and have brought the olive groves, vineyards and vegetable gardens back to life
  • Trafficking in art

    Trafficking in art

    In Florence the hottest new art pieces are Clet Abraham's doctored street signs – playful, funny and irreverent
  • Brunello Cucinelli: Fashion and philosophy

    Brunello Cucinelli: Fashion and philosophy

    The designer's company, which makes some of the most exclusive clothing in the world, has raised the fortunes of the Italian town of Solomeo by upholding "the moral and economic dignity of the human being"
  • True espresso love: Attending a university of coffee

    True espresso love: Attending a university of coffee

    In Italy students are taught the rules in brewing the perfect cup – a highly-calibrated method of preparation that is an art in itself
  • The spread that made hazelnuts famous

    The spread that made hazelnuts famous

    The rich chocolate-hazelnut creation has been a staple for generations of cooks in Piedmont, Italy
  • A royal estate in Tuscany

    A royal estate in Tuscany

    The Villa Le Corti sits high atop a hillside in Chianti's wine region, on land Princess Giorgiana Corsini's family has owned since the 1300s
  • The world's oldest pharmacy

    The world's oldest pharmacy

    Rose water was just one creation of the Dominican monks who in the 13th century began experimenting with alchemy at Florence's Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy

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  • In memoriam:

  • From 1979: Architect I.M. Pei on the JFK Library

    From 1979: Architect I.M. Pei on the JFK Library

    One of the most heralded of 20th century architects died Thursday at the age of 102. In this report which aired on October 21, 1979, Pei talked with correspondent Marlene Sanders as they toured Boston's newly-dedicated John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (which he designed), and discussed creating a public space that captured the essence, and promise, of the man who was our nation's 35th president
  • From 2008: Doris Day, the "Girl Next Door"

    From 2008: Doris Day, the "Girl Next Door"

    One of the most popular and enduring stars of film, music and television was Doris Day (1922-2019), who in later years retreated for the most part from the public eye, devoting her life to animal rights causes. In this "Sunday Morning" report which originally aired July 13, 2008, correspondent Jerry Bowen talked about Day's career, her Hollywood legacy, and her privacy with biographer David Kaufman, author of "Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door"; cabaret singer Mary Cleere Haran, who created a one-woman show dedicated to the songs of Doris Day; and Day's friend and frequent co-star Kaye Ballard
  • From 2017: Herman Wouk - Remembrances

    From 2017: Herman Wouk - Remembrances

    The bestselling author of "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War" passed away on Friday, ten days before his 104th birthday. In this interview that aired July 2, 2017, the reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winner invited correspondent Tracy Smith to his Palm Springs home, and talked about a career conjuring fiction from real life
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  • In the slow lane with Jay Leno

    In the slow lane with Jay Leno

    The comedian and car enthusiast takes a vintage Ford Model T out for a spin in Washington, D.C., where gentle political humor these days seems similarly antiquated
  • Gridlock: Seeking a 21st century solution to an age-old problem

    Gridlock: Seeking a 21st century solution to an age-old problem

    As Americans spend an estimated 97 hours a year stuck in traffic, costing tens of billions in lost productivity, answers to our traffic nightmares are being explored – both high-tech and old-school
  • Mo Rocca on the dilemma of traffic

    Mo Rocca on the dilemma of traffic

    Stuck in gridlock, like millions of other drivers? Mo Rocca has suggestions on how to get away from it all, none very practical.
  • Tuning in to the evolution of car radios

    Tuning in to the evolution of car radios

    From pop hits to preachers and pretty much everything in-between, the car radio has been a part our lives for almost 100 years
  • Street art: Japanese manhole covers

    Street art: Japanese manhole covers

    Colorful designs adorn the lids to the sewers in towns across the country, inspiring flocks of fans, called "manholers," to engage in manhole tourism
  • The road to self-driving cars

    The road to self-driving cars

    Autonomous vehicles are becoming a new normal for more and more people

  • Web exclusive video:

  • Lyft co-founder on why your car is expendable

    Lyft co-founder on why your car is expendable

    Self-driving cars may reshape more than our streets. David Pogue talks to John Zimmer, co-founder and president of the Lyft ride-sharing service, about the future of transportation, and what will change as new technologies make us less and less dependent on owning a car
  • Flying cars: Ready to take off

    Flying cars: Ready to take off

    After decades of promises, flying cars are finally becoming real, though they won't look like what "The Jetsons" promised
  • Traveling America's scenic byways

    Traveling America's scenic byways

    Reason enough to get off the interstate: America's most scenic routes allow you to get caught up in where you are rather than where you're going to
  • Crazy commutes: Employing alternative methods to beat traffic

    Crazy commutes: Employing alternative methods to beat traffic

    Tommy Lutz's 12-mile commute from his home in New Jersey to the Manhattan offices of Google is accomplished by a foldable bicycle and then, once he hits the Hudson River, a foldable boat
  • Jim Gaffigan on that unavoidable certainty of life: Traffic

    Jim Gaffigan on that unavoidable certainty of life: Traffic

    The comedian will do anything to avoid traffic, which provides misery from cradle to grave

  • From the archive:

  • "The 21st Century": Autos and All That Traffic (1969)

    "The 21st Century": Autos and All That Traffic (1969)

    Steam-powered cars? Steering wheels that monitor your heart rate? Some automotive innovations predicted 50 years ago haven't come to fruition (yet), but among those explored by host Walter Cronkite that did, in one manner or another, are air bags, crash test dummies, electric cars, anti-lock brakes, computer aids for drivers, and dashboard navigation. Originally broadcast on April 20, 1969.

  • From Steve Hartman:

  • Company's coming

    Eleanor Baker, a widow, was sitting alone at Brad's Barbeque in Oxford, Alabama, when she was approached by three young men, in a meeting she told Steve Hartman had to have been arranged by the Almighty

  • Follow the crowd

  • An exonerated artist

  • Mothering a duck

  • Music:

  • BTS, the kings of K-Pop

    Selling out stadiums across the globe, topping the Billboard charts, and landing on Time magazine's Most Influential People List – it's the South Korean boy band's time

  • Dionne Warwick: A singular voice

  • Jeff Goldblum: Living life like a jazz piece

  • Max Richter's music to sleep by

  • Tina Turner on her voice, finding serenity and losing a son

  • Florence Welch on her own "Hunger"

    As the front woman of Florence + The Machine faced down personal demons, her lyrics became more revealing, even to herself

  • Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

  • Singer-songwriter John Prine: Still alive and kickin'

  • Cardi B on her determination: "I get up every single time, honey"

  • Singer-songwriter Alessia Cara on "The Pains of Growing"

  • The Who's Roger Daltrey: Music legend, teen cancer warrior

  • How former Journey frontman Steve Perry started believin' again

  • Singing the praises of karaoke

    Daisuke Inoue, a Japanese musician who couldn't read music, invented a machine that would help teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

  • Brandi Carlile, the "underdog," surrounded by love

  • Electric Lady Studios: The "House That Hendrix Built"

  • Linda Ronstadt: A voice from the past

  • Michael Bublé is back with "Love," and takes nothing for granted

  • Carrie Underwood on getting beyond 3 miscarriages, to joy

    The "Cry Pretty" singer says, after a year of despair, her personal agony led to a remarkable moment after she "told God how I felt"

  • "Piano Man" Billy Joel on hitting the 100 mark at Madison Square Garden

  • The Go-Go's on their staying power

  • Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters: "I love music, and I love life"

  • On TV:

  • "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek on his cancer diagnosis

    The veteran quiz show emcee talks about his longevity on air, and his current battle against stage 4 pancreatic cancer

  • Emilia Clarke on "Game of Thrones" and her near-death experience

  • Keeping up with Kris Jenner

  • Joan Collins: Playing the woman the world loved to hate

  • Bill Hader on "Barry" and finding the humor in success

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus on her final term in HBO's "Veep"

  • Sunny days on "Sesame Street"

  • Return to "The Twilight Zone"

    Return to "The Twilight Zone"

    A look at Rod Serling's classic science fiction, horror and fantasy anthology series, and its latest incarnation produced and hosted by Jordan Peele

    • The 10 greatest "Twilight Zone" episodes

  • On movies:

  • Julianne Moore on dramatizing the immensity of a life

    The Oscar-winning actress now stars in "Gloria Bell," playing a free-spirited divorcée who discovers romance in an L.A. dance club, and much more

  • Spike Lee on "BlacKkKlansman," awards, and an artist's validation

  • "Bohemian Rhapsody": Sinking one's teeth into a role

  • It's Sam Elliott season

  • Michael Caine: Not the retiring type

  • An "Annie Hall" for the ages: Seniors star in a remake of Woody Allen's classic

  • On stage:

  • "Ain't Too Proud": The Temptations' story comes to Broadway

    A new musical recreates the era of the Motown greats

  • Carole King and her "Beautiful" life

  • Encore: Lin-Manuel Miranda brings "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico

  • Kenneth Lonergan on "The Waverly Gallery" and its personal story of dementia

  • Kerry Washington on calling the shots

  • Tina Fey brings her "Mean Girls" to Broadway

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  • "Mobituaries":

  • The Auburn University tree killer speaks

    In Mo Rocca's latest podcast, Harvey Updyke, Jr., a die-hard Crimson Tide fan, opens up about why he poisoned the beloved 80-year-old Toomer's oak trees on the campus of his school's rival

  • "Mobituaries": Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins

  • "Mobituaries": Neanderthals, our surprising ancestors

  • "The unstoppable Sammy Davis Jr.

  • Mo Rocca on the enduring popularity of Audrey Hepburn

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