by Chris Woodside | Sep 30, 2013 | Get This
Town planners know they can’t avoid dealing with sea-level rise. I am writing an article about how coastal Connecticut’s municipal leaders are changing the way they manage roads, emergency services, zoning, and building permits. Sea level has risen to...
by Chris Woodside | Aug 22, 2013 | Get This
Starting a day in the back of my kitchen before heading to the office in Chester. It’s been a heck of a busy summer, and next week I’ll be taking some time off with my daughters and husband. Then from September 1-11 I’ll be on a writing retreat in...
by Chris Woodside | Aug 15, 2013 | Get This
Illustration by Boris Kulikov for the Boston Globe Was a beloved children’s series written as an anti-New Deal fable? The Wilder family papers suggest yes. A FEW MONTHS AFTER the stock market crash, in the winter of 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder sat at a small desk...
by Chris Woodside | Aug 9, 2013 | Get This
Rose Wilder Lane in the late 1930s, when she was working on the later Little House books with her mother Watch this Sunday’s “Ideas” section in the Boston Globe for my story about the recasting of the pioneers as individualistic heroes in the...
by Chris Woodside | Jul 15, 2013 | Get This
Chris Woodside on the ridge between Mount Lafayette and Mount Garfield, White Mountains, New Hampshire Last week I climbed five mountains, mostly in fog and mist. The White Mountains of New Hampshire always take me back to myself. There, I meet writers and aspiring...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 9, 2013 | Get This
1999 Metcalf fellows; Woodside in front row on right in purple I was in the first class of fellows at the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, in 1999. This weeklong...