I recently took a drive along Vermont’s Otter Creek in order to see part of the land-scape explored by photographer Caleb Kenna for his feature in this issue. I didn’t have a…
Magazine Series
Framing with Ancient Timbers: Scribing Together History
The Charlestown Navy Yard has been a fixture of the Boston Harbor shoreline for more than 200 years. Until its closure in 1974, the Navy Yard was a city-within-a-city, with facilities…
From the Center
Last September, while kayaking up the Connecticut River, I passed a monarch butterfly heading in the opposite direction. I turned my boat and watched it go, a flickering spot of blaze orange,…
Historic Barn Made New
Senior Housing Renovation Supports Local Timber Suppliers
Carpenter and writer Adam Miller recently completed the timber framing portion of a barn that is undergoing renovation in Lyme, New Hampshire. The project is part of a small senior housing…
Saving Butternut
Native butternut, Juglans cinerea, is steadily disappearing from the woods of North America due to butternut canker, a non-native fungus (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) that was…
Three Cinquains
Poecile atricapillus Winking The wanderer Wonders over my work As I split oak and he in song Marks time. Strix varia Child who Innocence calls Sagelike to the moonlight, Night’s huntsmen…
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone: Connecticut’s Last Ancient Forest
Legendary Connecticut State Forester Austin Hawes called it “the most perfect mixture of the northern and southern New England forest types” he had ever seen. The Carrington Phelps…
A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History (Excerpt)
Home Is a Landscape
For many people, home is not one spot on the landscape, it can be many places. In A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, archaeologist Robert Goodby, a professor of…
The Whistler
Manic whistles rose from the woods at the edge of the lawn. The hair prickled along the back of my neck as I pressed my face to the cool porch screen and peered into the dark.…
Art Review: Hillary Waters Fayle
Hillary Waters Fayle is a Virginia-based textile artist known for her delicate botanical constructs. Working with found leaves and rudimentary tools – needle and thread, and Exacto…