Leaving the Land
“Each farm is a particular, complicated arrangement.”
North Bend Road
If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
To Catch the Morning Sun
“Like the turkey vultures, I had come to Maine to make myself a good life.”
The Beautiful Bones
Perhaps animals gave us our first lesson in aesthetics, and that’s why we scrawled their images onto cave walls.
A Gift of Birds
Audubon taught me about the splendors of this continent’s wildness and about the human savagery often pitted against it.
Spring Rain
We know the dangers amphibians face: the diseases that sicken them, the destruction of habitat, the roads.
Going to See the Ducks
Wild ducks — wild animals of all sorts — fire the human imagination.
A Winter Garden
Sea vegetables are something Maine is beginning to be known for.
The Chicken Shed
Author Susan Hand Shetterly’s first Room with a View column.
The Incredible Edible Eel
The mysterious fish faces a troubling future from overfishing to environmental factors. BY: SUSAN HAND SHETTERLY Photograph by Heather Perry Skip Zink has been…