A WOODCHUCK IS WOOLLY. Who knows what he thinks? He hibernates in his underground lair, a groundhog by any other name, his ...

How art combats extinction ...

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Jerry Martien is the author of Pieces in Place, a collection of poems, and Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America. He teaches at Humboldt ...

NEW YEAR, NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS. Here are some recently published (or nearly published) books that caught our attention during those long winter evenings. “I’ve always had a soft spot for Winter,” ...

Do you knock on wood? Often! I did not grow up in a religious family, but my family passed on a lot of rituals for safety and luck. When you see a white horse, when you go through a yellow light, when ...

I DROVE DOWN WASHINGTON TURNPIKE, a straight sandy road cutting through the pine country of Wharton State Forest, the largest tract of wilderness in New Jersey. Surrounding me were trunks of slash ...