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Beginning my visiting professor year at UConn
Teaching has risen to the top of my list. I am a visiting assistant professor in journalism at the University of Connecticut this year. I will be teaching environmental journalism, the history of journalism in America ("The Press in America"), and two newswriting labs...
Appalachia’s Accidents report here. Click on link at the bottom.
Accidents Summer Fall 2020 Appalachia Journal
Testing poop is the future: Yale’s tests of New Haven sludge offer faster way to see outbreaks
Above, from the Yale study: The red line represents the rise and fall of the COVID-19 outbreaks as detected in New Haven sewage. The darker line, seven days later, represents a similar curve of the outbreak as tracked in human testing. A new study by Yale University...
Manage public outdoor spaces the way we manage grocery stores: like essential spaces that should never close
People need to get outside, breathe fresh air, move around, and fix their eyes on some actual distant shore. The coronavirus pandemic is rising toward its peak in the Northeast. Cities, towns, states, and the federal government are closing access to public parks...
Mountains in a pandemic: a call for submissions
I am the editor of Appalachia journal, the country's oldest journal of mountaineering and conservation. We take a literary approach to wilderness and adventure. We are living through an unprecedented pandemic, something no one alive today has ever seen. This will go...
News
Christine Woodside is a writer from Connecticut who explores people’s relationship to their landscapes.
Her next book is a memoir of taking herself and her young daughters into wild places and how that completely changed her and maybe them. It comes out next year from Appalachian Mountain Club Books.
She always wondered about her grandfather who decided to leave farming after his family had done it for 200 years. So she’s writing a chapter for a new book about New Jersey’s environmental past. It will explore struggles of small farmers in southern New Jersey at the dawn of the industrial age.
She edits Appalachia journal (submit button at the bottom of the page).
Chris teaches the history of journalism and wilderness writing at the University of Connecticut. She writes for online and print magazines and edits stories for The Conversation US.
Libertarians on the Prairie, Chris’s book about the lives and collaboration of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, has established itself in scholarship of the mysterious and gripping “Little House” books. She talks about limited government and the Little House books in this episode of Sean Braswell’s podcast, “Flashback.” Libertarians on the Prairie is available in hardback and a paperback edition with a Foreword by Stephen Heuser. Order one today.
Going back in time a bit: Chris appears throughout Don Bernier’s 2005 film, “In a Nutshell,” about a brilliant, eccentric artist who found herself homeless in her 90s. A clip here.
Writing Workshops
Chris’s next writing workshop is Writing from the Mountains for the Appalachian Mountain Club, October 28-30 at Cardigan Lodge in Alexandria, New Hampshire.
Libertarians on the Prairie
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Libertarians on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder, left, and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, as they looked in the 1930s, when they worked on the "Little House" books Now available from your favorite outlet. Coming out in paperback in October 2017 Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the...
Foul Spills at Black Rock Harbor Will Go On for Decades
On the west and east sides of narrow Black Rock Harbor in western Bridgeport, industry, school, recreation and sewage treatment converge. At the most inland tip are Santa Energy’s oil tanks. On the east side stretch asphalt runways at Pratt & Whitney’s test...
Dead Fish, Condoms, Brown Foam: Sewage Has Chokehold On Black Rock Harbor
On April 25, 2018, Patrick Clough walked onto a dock at Fayerweather Yacht Club on Black Rock Harbor in western Bridgeport. He looked down. Swirling around the dock was a brown, foamy slick. Women’s sanitary products and other objects floated in it. He...
Testing poop is the future: Yale’s tests of New Haven sludge offer faster way to see outbreaks
Above, from the Yale study: The red line represents the rise and fall of the COVID-19 outbreaks as detected in New Haven sewage. The darker line, seven days later, represents a similar curve of the outbreak as tracked in human testing. A new study by Yale University...
Long Island Sound to Lobsters: Is This Farewell?
A lobster from southern New England is offered for sale at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City in 1943. Source: Library of Congress archives Twenty years ago, Long Island Sound was home to a thriving fishery of the American lobster. Hundreds of lobster boats...
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