by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Newspaper Articles
written for The Day After the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, I went looking for my old prisoner-of-war bracelet. It was tucked in a folder of childhood papers. The stainless steel band with “Capt. Richard G. Morin, 12-20-68” looks exactly as it...
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...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles
written for New England Watershed It’s early June on the Connecticut River and the sun is blazing just above the tree fringe of Selden Island on the far bank. The glitter on the water is so bright I have to write with one eye closed. Out in the river just up from...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles
My landscape: Connecticut River in Deep River written for River and Shore It’s early June on the Connecticut River and the sun is blazing just above the tree fringe of Selden Island on the far bank. The glitter on the water is so bright I have to write with one eye...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles
written for Connecticut Woodlands They Own Land, a House, and a Slow Pace of Life— A socio-economic phenomenon that drives the economy Many of the people who live in Connecticut don’t live here all the time. The second-home market in Litchfield County, most notably,...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles
written for Environment Yale Since the 1500s, when Spaniards colonized Panama, the isthmus that separates the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, people have cleared and cut its tropical forests. Development, cattle ranching and farming have changed the landscape and the...
