by Chris Woodside | Jul 12, 2011 | Get This
Potato harvest by lisibo on flickr A new study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine linked potatoes to longterm weight gain. But it also said other things. The journalists’ reports of the study focus on the potatoes. It is true that the...
by Chris Woodside | Jul 4, 2011 | Get This
Runners drink beer after the Chester Four on the Fourth race The Chester Rotary Club’s annual Four on the Fourth road race pushes hundreds of athletes, neighbors, and visitors to run some of the steeper hills found in the lower Connecticut River Valley. This...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 24, 2011 | Get This
Kurt Michael Friese, author of “Chasing Chiles,” with his daughter and son at his restaurant, Devotay. I went down to Prairie Lights Bookstore tonight to hear local-food chef and restaurant owner Kurt Michael Friese read from his book about chile peppers...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 21, 2011 | Get This
Restored prairie and mown path on the grounds of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa I am back in Iowa this week, researching once again the papers of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane. A travel grant from the Herbert Hoover Presidential...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 14, 2011 | Get This
Cay Query Lodine, Phil Lodine, my husband Nat Eddy, and me, halfway through our AT thru-hike, at ATC headquarters, Harpers Ferry, WV, June 22, 1987 This year marks 24 years since the summer we—Cay, Phil, Nat, and I—hiked the Appalachian Trail. Over the weekend (June...
by Chris Woodside | May 28, 2011 | Get This
Judy Benson holds someone’s former balloon Slight fog at the mouth of the Connecticut River. The first kayak adventure of the season with my environment reporter friend Judy Benson. After the parties end and the mylar balloons lose their air and float down...
