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Accidents, 2021 Dartmouth College

Accidents

Appalachia

Mishaps and rescues from summer/fall 2017 include: a dramatic rescue of several people in a school group on Mount Lafayette; a wandering backpacker in early May who triggers the season’s largest search; and a swimmer who drowns below Franconia Falls.


Early Logging In The Southern Maine Woods: The Woods Produced Shoe Blocks, Spruce Gum, And More, William Geller 2021 Dartmouth College

Early Logging In The Southern Maine Woods: The Woods Produced Shoe Blocks, Spruce Gum, And More, William Geller

Appalachia

William Geller’s history of nineteenth-century enterprises around the Pleasant River in Maine.


The Last Gift: Months Before A Father's Death, He Encourages His Son To Seek Challenges, Douglass P. Teschner 2021 Dartmouth College

The Last Gift: Months Before A Father's Death, He Encourages His Son To Seek Challenges, Douglass P. Teschner

Appalachia

Months before his tragic death, a man encourages his yuoung son to seek challenges.


An Injury Changes The Story: Encounter With A Baby Stroller, Elissa Ely 2021 Dartmouth College

An Injury Changes The Story: Encounter With A Baby Stroller, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Elissa Ely encounters a baby stroller on the Ptarmigan Cirque loop trail in the Canadian Rockies.


Sequoias And Redwoods In A Hotter World: When Trees As High As 30-Story Buildings "Die On Their Feet," Something's Wrong, Christopher Johnson 2021 Dartmouth College

Sequoias And Redwoods In A Hotter World: When Trees As High As 30-Story Buildings "Die On Their Feet," Something's Wrong, Christopher Johnson

Appalachia

Scientists in two pioneering research projects are examining how climate change affects the iconic ancient trees of California, by Christopher Johnson.


Problembär: Germany's First Bear In 170 Years, Brendan Curtin 2021 Dartmouth College

Problembär: Germany's First Bear In 170 Years, Brendan Curtin

Appalachia

The strange story, by Brendan Curtin, of a bear that wandered through the Alps into Germany in 2006.


The Resourceful Teen: A Broken Stove Awakens Ingenuity, Lisa Densmore Ballard 2021 Dartmouth College

The Resourceful Teen: A Broken Stove Awakens Ingenuity, Lisa Densmore Ballard

Appalachia

Parker Densmore, age 15, makes dinner following the breakdown of a stove.


Emotional Rescue: A Hiker Becomes A Benefactor As She Follows A Set Of Sneaker Prints, Ty Gagne 2021 Dartmouth College

Emotional Rescue: A Hiker Becomes A Benefactor As She Follows A Set Of Sneaker Prints, Ty Gagne

Appalachia

Ty Gagne’s riveting story of a hiker who followed a set of sneaker prints in foul weather and saved a man from suicide.


The Continuing Adventures Of Buffalo And Tough Cookie: Sometimes A Family Goes Deeper Than Blood, Janelle Mylott, Dan Szczesny 2021 Dartmouth College

The Continuing Adventures Of Buffalo And Tough Cookie: Sometimes A Family Goes Deeper Than Blood, Janelle Mylott, Dan Szczesny

Appalachia

Dan Szczesny and Janelle Mylott together tell the story of their hiking partnership after the death of Janelle’s grandmother and guardian who made Janelle’s participation possible.


Climbers As Humanitarians: Helping Injured Migrants In Mexico, Lisa Densmore Ballard 2021 Dartmouth College

Climbers As Humanitarians: Helping Injured Migrants In Mexico, Lisa Densmore Ballard

Appalachia

A group buys an ambulance and helps injured migrants in Mexico.


Care For The Caregiver: His Mother Had Never Backpacked; He Took Her To The Presidentials For Her 60th Birthday, Stephen Kurczy 2021 Dartmouth College

Care For The Caregiver: His Mother Had Never Backpacked; He Took Her To The Presidentials For Her 60th Birthday, Stephen Kurczy

Appalachia

His mother had never backpacked; Stephen Kurczy took her to the Presidentials in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for her 60th birthday.


The Long Way Home: Encounter With A Hare, Christine Woodside 2021 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: Encounter With A Hare, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Christine Woodside encounters a hare in the wilderness.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2018: Complete Issue, 2021 Dartmouth College

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2018: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2018 - Volume LXIX, Number 2 - Issue #246. Role Reversal in the Mountains: New Perspectives, New Circumstances


Bio 013: Writing In The Sciences - Evolutionary Themes, Syllabus, Esther Muehlbauer 2021 CUNY Queens College

Bio 013: Writing In The Sciences - Evolutionary Themes, Syllabus, Esther Muehlbauer

Open Educational Resources

The Syllabus for Bio. 013, Writing in the Sciences - Evolutionary Themes, is a College Writing 2 course that develops student skill in science writing for different audiences: Scientists writing for themselves (the Field journal); Scientists writing for other scientists (the Review article); and Scientists writing for students/ society ( an Essay for a periodical that utilizes analogy/metaphor). To inform this writing, students read and discuss Darwin's original works and the writings of more contemporary evolutionary theorists, including E. Mayr and S.J. Gould. This course is appropriate for incoming students as well as more advanced biology students.


Dual Immersion Programs: Are They Enough?, Samantha Renae Castillo 2021 Santa Clara University

Dual Immersion Programs: Are They Enough?, Samantha Renae Castillo

Canterbury Scholars

This study asks: How do middle school students attending a Spanish and English dual immersion program develop their biliteracy skills differently based on the extent of their exposure to and practice of both languages in the home environment? Deborah Brandt argues that sponsors invest in literacy tools in order to give other people access to language resources, allowing communication to be fostered through the passing on of information, as done between different generations. This research project examines how literacy sponsorship outside of the classroom impacts an individual’s bilingual development overall. In a pilot version of this study with two participants, …


Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills 2021 Rhode Island School of Design

Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills

Masters Theses

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …


Becoming Lovely, Marijean Oldham 2021 Lindenwood University

Becoming Lovely, Marijean Oldham

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Collecting Seashells, Caitlin Upshall 2021 Lindenwood University

Collecting Seashells, Caitlin Upshall

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Migration, Brian Wallace Baker 2021 Lindenwood University

Migration, Brian Wallace Baker

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Perhaps Then, Stephanie Lamb 2021 Lindenwood University

Perhaps Then, Stephanie Lamb

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


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