Newspaper Articles
Trying to Save a Refuge for Birds
written for The New York Times IN the mid-1950's, Roger Tory Peterson moved to a quiet hill in Old Lyme, where, until he died in 1996, he worked intensely on the bird guides for which he was famous. Last spring, after Mr. Peterson's wife, Virginia, died, an...
Bracelet Bears Legacy of Hope and Grief
written for The Day After the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, I went looking for my old prisoner-of-war bracelet. It was tucked in a folder of childhood papers. The stainless steel band with "Capt. Richard G. Morin, 12-20-68" looks exactly as it did in the...
A Unique Talent for Being Herself
Written for The Day The death of the Nut Museum curator came very quietly on Jan. 28 in a nursing home a few minutes' drive from the mansion in Old Lyme, Connecticut, she had still hoped to reclaim. But Elizabeth Tashjian, the painter and sculptor who became...
A 1998 Warning About Polar Bears
written for The Day Mystic—The top polar bear expert in North America told an audience of scientists that global warming is hurting polar bears in western Hudson Bay. The 1,000-pound bears rely on a window of several weeks in the early spring to lumber across the ice...
A Frenzy for Glass Eels
Glass eels, or elvers, from a seafood retailer's website written for The Day In the middle of the night in Millville, N.J., someone stole a vanÛÓnot for the van, but for the tanks stashed in back, which were set up to hold thousands of baby American eels. When the...
Pushcart Flop: The Cold Reality of My Short, Unsuccessful Stint as Vendor
written for The Hartford Courant Each summer for one afternoon, a giant fife-and-drum parade comes to my quiet town. Thousands of people come to watch the bands. Selling ice cream at the Deep River Ancient Muster had always seemed like a sure way to make a bundle....
