by Chris Woodside | May 16, 2017 | Magazine Articles
Heading up the Undermountain Trail with Talley. Photo by Julie Bidwell Yankee Magazine, March 2017 One bright Monday afternoon, I step onto the Undermountain Trail below Bear Mountain, in northwest Connecticut. I climb east. The trail rolls mostly straight up, but...
by Chris Woodside | Oct 9, 2016 | Magazine Articles
Laura Ingalls Wilder, right, with her sisters Mary (seated) and Carrie circa 1881. Courtesy of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association Politico Magazine, September 11, 2016 For 84 years, American kids have been growing up with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s inspiring Little...
by Chris Woodside | May 27, 2016 | Magazine Articles
Sandplain in central Connecticut. Disturbed sand is from an all-terrain vehicle. Connecticut Woodlands, spring 2016 I trudge along a barren, sandy field, following a bespectacled, gray-bearded ecologist named Bill Moorhead. He steps carefully in his work boots over...
by Chris Woodside | Feb 25, 2016 | Magazine Articles
Chris with John, Steve, and Bob, ready for day camp, Southhampton, Pennsylvania. Photo by Gloria Woodside Appalachia Journal, Winter Spring 2016 I first climbed the Ramsey Trail in central New Hampshire with my three big brothers—Bob, Steve, and John—in the...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 15, 2015 | Magazine Articles
Helen Binney Kitchel in a 1970s newspaper clipping From Connecticut Woodlands magazine, Summer 2015 A few years ago, Greenwich local history librarian Carl White called Helen Binney Kitchel “the Rachel Carson of Greenwich, Connecticut.” The two women were very...
by Chris Woodside | Oct 23, 2014 | Magazine Articles
The Eight-Legged Thing outside the Caratunk, Maine Post Office. From left: Chris Woodside, Cay Lodine, Phil Lodine, Nat Eddy Appalachia journal, Summer/Fall 2014 Rituals fortify an Appalachian Trail trek The thin paperback’s cover bent back. My friend Phil held...
