by Chris Woodside | Nov 11, 2024 | Articles, Newspaper Articles
My husband and I were in a bad place one summer, so we left home and went into the mountains for three days. Nat had just had another contract end—the second time in fifteen months. It wasn’t his fault. He worked on yearly contracts, and the economy was bad just then....
by Chris Woodside | Mar 30, 2015 | Newspaper Articles
Illustration by Boris Kulikov for the Boston Globe The Boston Globe, August 11, 2013 A few months after the stock market crash, in the winter of 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder sat at a small desk in Mansfield, Mo., and began writing down her life story in pencil. She had...
by Chris Woodside | Oct 8, 2014 | Newspaper Articles
The newspaper Asahi Shimbun’s locator map showing De Smet, South Dakota, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home as a young woman and where an Asahi Shimbun reporter attended a Little House pageant. 7-Oct-14 This is an unofficial translation of an article by Daisuke...
by Chris Woodside | Nov 2, 2010 | Newspaper Articles
Cottage No. 31 goes down, Long Beach West, Stratford, Connecticut, Oct. 22, 2010 The Connecticut Mirror It’s not often that civilization is demolished to make way for wild birds, especially within sight of Connecticut’s largest city. That’s what’s happening on a long...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 12, 2010 | Newspaper Articles
written for The New York Times WHEN it comes to geographical lessons, Connecticut has two that it doesn’t share with just anybody. Tourists often visit Dinosaur State Park, a spot where fossilized dinosaur footprints are surrounded by an arena. And they know...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Newspaper Articles
Elizabeth and Annie’s feet, April 23, 1997 written for The New York Times YEARS ago, I decided to take my two young daughters backpacking on the Appalachian Trail. If it went well, I thought, we would go again the next year. We would hike girls-only, without...
