A Serious Matter
Those rivers, those woods, those creatures, that country: The Way Life Is.
Ordinary Birds
“Rare birds, high-value birds, please us. But no more than the cliff swallows that once arrived in abundance every spring.”
Good Having You Back
By 1900, the following animals were extinct or nearly extinct in Maine and everywhere else east of the Mississippi: 1) any wild canid larger than a fox, 2) wild turkeys, 3) beavers. Now they act like they own the place.
Up North, Early May
Up North, in the true canoe country, early May is to canoe-tripping what Thanksgiving to Christmas is to retailing. The whole year quickens toward those two weeks.
Growth Rings
Seems like yesterday: everything sharply detailed and in focus, more vivid now in memory than it was then in fact.
Great Elms
New England Elms, long cherished as ornaments, became symbols, providing more than simply shade.
Room With a View
The house you sit in and the ground you stand on are liquid assets. We hold a lease on life itself and on every other thing we think we own.
Room With a View
These four Maine senators seemed to have shared basic convictions.
Room With a View
For reasons reason cannot elucidate, some people in Bowdoinham keep guineas. They don’t eat them, can’t domesticate them, and have to feed and shelter them through the winter.
Room With a View
Before myth became history, did foxes consider the trade-offs involved and cast their fate with ours, then think better of it?
Room With a View
While it lasts, the fishing is — a window into the world that may open for a moment, grant you a glimpse.
Room With a View
The loon call so hauntingly transcends its purpose. The sound is full of eerie seeking, as of a lost soul for a lost world.
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