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Reading at the Norwich Bookstore in Vermont

Reading at the Norwich Bookstore in Vermont

The Norwich Bookstore will host my reading and talk about Going Over the Mountain on September 13 starting at 7 p.m. The bookstore is at 291 Main Street in Norwich, Vermont, between the Green Mountains and the White Mountains. The store is situated just east of the...

Health reporting that made a difference

Health reporting that made a difference

Over the past several years, I wrote environmental health stories for the Connecticut Health Investigative Team. C-hit.org's founder and editor Lynne Delucia decided to stop publishing new material as 2022 came to a close. Delucia edited and inspired journalists at...

Morning person? No. Night owl.

Morning person? No. Night owl.

This morning, I tried solving the daily Wordle puzzle before I got out of bed. It took me three times as long, and I almost didn't get it. I actually had predicted this might be true. I wake up slowly. My brain just seems less flexible until a few hours after I wake...

Writing below a mountain

Writing below a mountain

A birch and a pine grow next to each other below Mount Cardigan, Alexandria, New Hampshire.  I just returned from leading a writing workshop for the Appalachian Mountain Club. The AMC and I began Writing from the Mountains in 2016. The year before, we had brainstormed...

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Welcome! I am a writer, editor, and college lecturer based in New England. I explore people’s relationship to their landscapes. I hope you will stay here a while and get to know my work. 

My new book Going Over the Mountain traces my evolution as a wilderness trekker. I followed others. I tried to teach my daughters resilience. I went alone. I came back to community. It comes out in September from Appalachian Mountain Club Books.

I am doing some writing about the hard lives of New Jersey farmers in the twentieth century. I wrote a chapter in a book for Rutgers University Press (coming out soon) about New Jersey’s environmental past. 

I am the editor-in-chief of  Appalachia journal (submit button at the bottom of the page). 

I teach journalism history at the University of Connecticut. 

Libertarians on the Prairie tells how a secret collaboration on the Little House books reshaped the nineteenth-century American frontier story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Libertarians on the Prairie is available in hardback and a paperback edition with a Foreword by Stephen Heuser.  Order one today.

 

Going back in time a bit: I appeared in Don Bernier’s 2005 film, “In a Nutshell,” about a brilliant, eccentric artist who found herself homeless in her 90s. A clip here.

 

 

Going Over the Mountain

Going Over the Mountain

I began my outdoors journey in my twenties, following friends and a boyfriend who came up with the idea. From that first trip, I grew into an avid outdoorswoman, thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail with my husband and two friends. By my mid-30s I began taking my two...

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