by Chris Woodside | Jan 19, 2010 | Magazine Articles
Weather equipment at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire written for Appalachia journal In 1955, scientists established the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the southern White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire to study the movement of water...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 9, 2010 | Magazine Articles
A giant petrel watches Ryan Wallace weigh its baby as Wallace assists research scientists on an island off Palmer Station, Antarctica. JEFF OTTEN, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Appalachia journal Longtime employees of the company that supports the National Science...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 4, 2010 | Magazine Articles
Appalachia journal In the mountains, daylight saving time diminishes into the economic gimmick it truly is WHILE HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I settled into an odd sleeping pattern. I would fall into the sleeping bag soon after sunset after my...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Newspaper Articles
written for The Hartford Courant One Monday at 12:55 p.m., I parked my car and walked inside a McDonald’s on a busy stretch of Route 1 in Groton. Exactly five minutes later, I returned with a Big Mac and small Coke. At 1:02 p.m., I began timing a blue Toyota...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles
The pamphlet my husband found at the dump written for New England Watershed Attitudes toward housing in the 1950s—and nowSeveral years ago, I was assigned to write a newspaper article about a kitchen tour in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The best kitchen of the day was at...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Newspaper Articles
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,...
