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 | Apr 13, 2012 | Newspaper Articles
Barn for road salt in Manchester, Connecticut. Photo from town of Manchester Place section, The Hartford Courant A harried commuter buzzes along the highway. A field rises up to the right. At the top of the knoll stands a simple brown barn, its gambrel roof outlined...
by Chris Woodside | Oct 17, 2011 | Newspaper Articles
The New York Times, September 13, 1998 THE sea level is rising 2 millimeters a year, too little to notice year to year but enough to send the waves toward beach houses and sea walls over the next two generations. The tidal marshes that once covered most of the...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 14, 2011 | Newspaper Articles
On December 8, 2010, two months ahead of his appointment as Connecticut environmental commissioner, Dan Esty spoke about changing the economy to include renewables. The Connecticut Mirror, March 7, 2011 It’s an alluring proposition: Connecticut solves its major...
