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 23, 2014 | Magazine Articles
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...
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 | Sep 4, 2014 | Magazine Articles
Woman recycling glass in Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, 1990. Seattle Municipal Archives/Wikimedia Commons It’s dawn on waste-collection day in the hilly Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle. Along the curvy streets of this residential peninsula northwest of...
by Chris Woodside | Jan 21, 2014 | Magazine Articles
Old Quarry Road in Guilford, which floods regularly. Residents have voted to raise it, even though only a half-dozen households will benefit from the expensive job. Wrack Lines, Fall/Winter 2013-2014 Not too long ago, a municipal conservation director’s job centered...
by Chris Woodside | Aug 16, 2013 | Magazine Articles
Rachel Shwom The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media A unique annual meeting at the Garrison Institute comes to grips — or at least tries to — with the human behavior component of energy use and climate. A key question: What makes people tick? GARRISON, N.Y. —...
