Straight up trails in NH and CT

Straight up trails in NH and CT

by | Aug 6, 2011 | Get This

My daughter Annie (left) with me on Eagle Cliff. This has been a whirlwind week, tacked on to a month of endless work and family events. The latest is: Our daughter, Elizabeth, who graduated from college in May, got a job as a research assistant at Yale-New Haven...
Buy food from farmers

Buy food from farmers

by | Jul 27, 2011 | Get This

David Brown painting in a painting of his farm… I think…. From hayhouseonline.blogspot.com Supermarkets sell fruit and vegetables mostly from far-off lands. It’s summer now in North America. Farmers near your house sell produce that, a few hours...
Wilds of My Home State

Wilds of My Home State

by | Jul 24, 2011 | Get This

The new issue of Appalachia journal visits New Jersey’s lowlands, where I grew up from age 4 to 18, and where my father’s ancesters go back to pre-Revolutionary War. I am the editor-in-chief of Appalachia. Trail experts Ron Dupont and Paul DeCoste yell at...

A forgotten book

by | Jul 21, 2011 | Get This

Editor’s Note A forgotten book One spring morning, I wrenched myself away from the kitchen table and went on a run. You know how that is. Work beckons but if you don’t get some exercise now, you’ll start snapping at people. It was starting to rain. I...
Couch potatoes blame potatoes

Couch potatoes blame potatoes

by | Jul 12, 2011 | Get This

Potato harvest by lisibo on flickr A new study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine linked potatoes to longterm weight gain. But it also said other things. The journalists’ reports of the study focus on the potatoes. It is true that the...