by Chris Woodside | Jun 10, 2018 | Magazine Articles
Lepus americanus. Photo by Walter Siegmund. Past midnight I awakened and crept behind the mountain shelter, over dry leaves behind the back wall. Wind rustled from the open ridge of Vermont’s Mount Tom toward the spruces. I wore my improvised headlamp, a flashlight on...
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 | Online Articles
Dr. Kristen Zarfos with a patient. ctmirror.org, December 5, 2014 Not the best examining-room combo By Christine Woodside and Dr. Kristen Zarfos Researchers conducting dozens of studies in recent years have asked patients how they feel when their doctors stare...