Each variety of oyster—that craggy and somewhat mysterious shellfish—has a story to tell. But every oyster story must first include…
The Champlain Society Transcriptions
In the Spring 2015 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal, Maureen Fournier, a seasonal ranger for Acadia, and I describe…
The President’s Salmon in The Boston Globe
A preview of the forthcoming The President’s Salmon can be found in today’s Boston Globe Magazine. Politics, preservation, and salmon…
Deliverance
After an epic winter, spring arrived in the Penobscot River Valley. Ice is out on the lower river and most…
How a changing climate created Acadia National Park
Acadia is a national park, the first place in eastern U.S. to receive such designation, because of its scenery. Diverse…
Maine’s Wild Oysters
Scientists are studying isolated oyster grounds in Maine’s Sheepscot River that may date back to the last ice age. Meanwhile,…
On coyotes, deer…and human nature.
The essay, “The Coyote Gangs of Hope,” which appears in the Winter 2014 issue of 1966: A Journal of Creative…
Students as conservation catalysts
This third and final (for now) article on the Champlain Society explores how students can be effective agents of change,…
Visionary science of the “Harvard Barbarians”
The Mount Desert Island Historical Society asked me to write an article about The Champlain Society for the 2014 issue…
Influenced by Nature
In May 1871, Charles William Eliot had been president of Harvard College barely two years, and a widower just as…
