And now for today’s accounting of things that are dead or otherwise over: Paste magazine. Heeb magazine. Felicity Merriman, the Revolutionary War-era American Girl doll (once owned and beloved by my childhood friend Joanna, whose mother wouldn’t buy her  a doll tied to a more recent historical period because it wouldn’t have been educational enough). Novelty shops. Books–again, or still (according to Ms. Harper Lee). And thankfully, the month of August.

Alive and well: Five of the dresses Vivien Leigh wore as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, after fans responded to a museum appeal by donating $30,000 to  restore and preserve them.