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Susan Hand Shetterly
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Susan Hand Shetterly is the author of nine books, including Settled in the Wild, which won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2011. Her most recent title is Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge.
Room With a View

North Bend Road

If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
Room With a View

The Beautiful Bones

Perhaps animals gave us our first lesson in aesthetics, and that’s why we scrawled their images onto cave walls.
Cathedral Woods
Room With a View

Spring Rain

We know the dangers amphibians face: the diseases that sicken them, the destruction of habitat, the roads.
seaweed
Room With a View

A Winter Garden

Sea vegetables are something Maine is beginning to be known for.
American eels
Food & Drink

The Incredible Edible Eel

The mysterious fish faces a troubling future from overfishing to environmental factors.
turkey vulture
Room With a View

To Catch the Morning Sun

"Like the turkey vultures, I had come to Maine to make myself a good life."
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Gift of Birds

Audubon taught me about the splendors of this continent’s wildness and about the human savagery often pitted against it.
By the water
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Going to See the Ducks

Wild ducks — wild animals of all sorts — fire the human imagination.
antique Remington typewriter
Room With a View

The Chicken Shed

Author Susan Hand Shetterly's first Room with a View column.
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