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Wanted: Austral Summer Workers
A giant petrel watches Ryan Wallace weigh its baby as Wallace assists research scientists on an island off Palmer Station, Antarctica. JEFF OTTEN, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Appalachia journal Longtime employees of the company that supports the National Science...
Daylight Acceleration Time
Appalachia journal In the mountains, daylight saving time diminishes into the economic gimmick it truly is WHILE HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I settled into an odd sleeping pattern. I would fall into the sleeping bag soon after sunset after my...
A River Reborn
My landscape: Connecticut River in Deep River written for River and Shore It’s early June on the Connecticut River and the sun is blazing just above the tree fringe of Selden Island on the far bank. The glitter on the water is so bright I have to write with one eye...
What We Think We Want
The pamphlet my husband found at the dump written for New England Watershed Attitudes toward housing in the 1950s—and nowSeveral years ago, I was assigned to write a newspaper article about a kitchen tour in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The best kitchen of the day was at...
Reforestation Effort to Try to Convince Panamanians that Trees Are Good Business
written for Environment Yale Since the 1500s, when Spaniards colonized Panama, the isthmus that separates the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, people have cleared and cut its tropical forests. Development, cattle ranching and farming have changed the landscape and the...
Weekend Homeowners
written for Connecticut Woodlands They Own Land, a House, and a Slow Pace of Life— A socio-economic phenomenon that drives the economy Many of the people who live in Connecticut don’t live here all the time. The second-home market in Litchfield County, most notably,...
