Helen Binney Kitchel: Champion of Nature

Helen Binney Kitchel: Champion of Nature

Helen Binney Kitchel in a 1970s newspaper clipping From Connecticut Woodlands magazine, Summer 2015   A few years ago, Greenwich local history librarian Carl White called Helen Binney Kitchel “the Rachel Carson of Greenwich, Connecticut.” The two women were very...
Doctors and Computers

Doctors and Computers

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...
Little Libertarians on the Prairie

Little Libertarians on the Prairie

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...
Four Quartets and Eight Legs

Four Quartets and Eight Legs

The Eight-Legged Thing outside the Caratunk, Maine Post Office. From left: Chris Woodside, Cay Lodine, Phil Lodine, Nat Eddy Appalachia journal, Summer/Fall 2014 Rituals fortify an Appalachian Trail trek The thin paperback’s cover bent back. My friend Phil held...