by Chris Woodside | Apr 8, 2020 | Get This
People need to get outside, breathe fresh air, move around, and fix their eyes on some actual distant shore. The coronavirus pandemic is rising toward its peak in the Northeast. Cities, towns, states, and the federal government are closing access to public parks...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 26, 2020 | Get This
I am the editor of Appalachia journal, the country’s oldest journal of mountaineering and conservation. We take a literary approach to wilderness and adventure. We are living through an unprecedented pandemic, something no one alive today has ever seen. This...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 2, 2020 | Get This
Join me for my local, one-day version of a workshop I’ve given very successfully in New Hampshire. For the second year, Incarnation Center in Ivoryton has graciously given me space to run the workshop from 9-4 in their adorable, waterfront building known as the...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 13, 2019 | Get This
Looking through 20-year-old photos this week, I glimpsed the full landscape of my personal life in a true, complete way. And realized that I have neglected that landscape as a writer, creating here and in my published articles this sense that I spend all my time...
by Chris Woodside | Nov 9, 2019 | Get This
I came across this post from Philip Werner, aka Section Hiker. Eight years ago, I tried to save a man’s life as part of a group of hikers who came upon a collapsed father on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail. He had been trying to climb Mount Washington with his two...
by Chris Woodside | Oct 4, 2019 | Get This
The Connecticut Health Investigative Team has posted Christine Woodside’s three stories on routine sewage overflows into Long Island Sound off the coast of Connecticut. She had long wanted to understand why sewage overflows legally in some of Connecticut’s...
by Chris Woodside | Jul 1, 2019 | Magazine Articles
A lobster from southern New England is offered for sale at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City in 1943. Source: Library of Congress archives Twenty years ago, Long Island Sound was home to a thriving fishery of the American lobster. Hundreds of lobster boats...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 25, 2019 | Get This
The week after my mother’s memorial service, I found myself standing on the top of the first mountain I ever climbed, at 3, with her, my three brothers, and my father. Mom told me once that she had sort of pushed me up the short, steep path. I even remember how...
by Chris Woodside | May 19, 2019 | Get This
We climbed two mountains in the Pliny Range of New Hampshire today. On the ridge, spring’s arrival was creeping upward toward winter’s exit. Low on the ridge, wildflowers reached away from the path. The red trillium is the most beautiful and amazing of...
by Chris Woodside | May 7, 2019 | Get This
Hello everybody. Yesterday I graduated from Arizona State University with my master’s degree in history. The program gave me so much. View my final Capstone portfolio here. Here I sit in Phoenix, looking out on a steady rain falling on the cacti. Soon I return...
