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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Bobcat, Joyce Victor
For A Moment, Chris Hoffman
Entering The Kingdom, Todd Davis
Sundown On Evolution Creek: High Sierras, Marcyn Del Clements
Sundown On Evolution Creek: High Sierras, Marcyn Del Clements
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Early Spring At The Pond, Ann Taylor
A Peak Ahead: The Humanity Of Machines, Christine Woodside
A Peak Ahead: The Humanity Of Machines, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
No abstract provided.
Books And Media
Appalachia
Reviews of: AMC's Best Day Hikes in Connecticut and Rhode Island, by Steve Fagin, Rene Laubach, and Charles W. G. Smith; AMC's Best Day Hikes in New Jersey, 2nd Edition, by Priscilla Estes and Michael McCormick; The 4,000-Footers of the White Mountains, 3rd Edition, by Steven D. Smith and Mike Dickerman; Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range, by Michael Engelhard; Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays, by Laura Waterman; Accidents in North American Climbing, by the American Alpine Club
Old Hutmen And Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd, W. Kent Olson
Old Hutmen And Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd, W. Kent Olson
Appalachia
Old Hutmen and Hutwomen, the OHA, honor Betsy Byrd, who spent decades as a secretary to hut managers and Appalachian Mountain Club leaders.
Research: Gorillas On Visoke And Pandas In The House: A Conservation With Wildlife Biologist And Conservationist George Schaller, Douglass Teschner
Research: Gorillas On Visoke And Pandas In The House: A Conservation With Wildlife Biologist And Conservationist George Schaller, Douglass Teschner
Appalachia
A conversation with wildlife biologist and conservationist George Schaller.
Research: The Little Insects That Could: New Hampshire's Arctic Butterflies, Gabriella Gurney
Research: The Little Insects That Could: New Hampshire's Arctic Butterflies, Gabriella Gurney
Appalachia
New Hampshire’s arctic butterflies, the White Mountain fritillaries.
Alpina: A Semiannual Review Of Mountaineering In The Greater Ranges
Alpina: A Semiannual Review Of Mountaineering In The Greater Ranges
Appalachia
Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges in summer and fall 2023: Samson Zebturiah Barner is arrested near Smith Rock in central Oregon for taking several weapons to a climbing event. Three climbers open a new route on Pik Alpinist in Kyrgyzstan. A brief review of the New York Times article on the discovery of Janet Johnson’s camera on Aconcagua 50 years after she and John Cooper died there. On Everest, 3,600 climbers attempted the peak in 2023; eighteen died, 100 years after the biggest Everest mystery of all: the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine. Three Americans …
Accidents: Analysis From The White Mountains Of New Hampshire And Occasionally Elsewhere
Accidents: Analysis From The White Mountains Of New Hampshire And Occasionally Elsewhere
Appalachia
Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains from spring and fall 2023. A long-distance hiker on the Appalachian Trail was knocked unconscious after one her trekking poles snapped crossing a brook on the Rattle River Trail. A woman tries and fails to hike down from Mount Washingtron after taking the Cog Railway up. A hiker falls into a stream, soaking all of her gear, and calls for help below Mount Passaconaway. A couple battles hypothermia after starting up Little Haystack Mountain late on a cold June day. A 21-year-old falls 30 feet off a ledge on Cannon …
Letters
Appalachia
Responses to William Geller’s Winter/Spring 2023 article on bushwhacking in the Mahoosuc range in Maine.
Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack, Gordon Dubois
Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack, Gordon Dubois
Appalachia
Memories of Rufus the trail dog.
Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris
Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris
Appalachia
A boy picks a yellow pond lily and regrets it.
Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace
Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace
Appalachia
A writing teacher considers climate change in New Hampshire, where she lives, and in Acadia National Park and Yellowstone National Park, which she visited in a van. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.
Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English
Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English
Appalachia
The author tracks three generations of strong women in her family climbing Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Caught In A Vortex: Two Hikers Stumble Upon A Private Ceremony, Elissa Ely
Caught In A Vortex: Two Hikers Stumble Upon A Private Ceremony, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
A mother and daughter hike past a wedding in progress in Sedona, Arizona.
The Stranger On Moosilauke: A Hiker Revits The Haunting Tragedy Of A Frigid Day, Jeannie Oliver
The Stranger On Moosilauke: A Hiker Revits The Haunting Tragedy Of A Frigid Day, Jeannie Oliver
Appalachia
A hiker recounts meeting Roy Sanford on the slopes of Mount Moosilauke in the western White Mountains of New Hampshire, later learning that he died trying to summit in bad weather.
Nebraska, Anyone? An Avid Hiker Navigates Around Jeep Tracks And High Prairie, Lisa Ballard
Nebraska, Anyone? An Avid Hiker Navigates Around Jeep Tracks And High Prairie, Lisa Ballard
Appalachia
An avid adventurer tries hiking around Jeep tracks in Fort Robinson State Park and through high prairie to Toadstool Geologic Park.
An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale
An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale
Appalachia
A couple walked most of the Rhode Island coast over 29 day trips, including a road race on the Jamestown Bridge.
Moths To A Flame: The Light And Dark Of Reading Accidents In North American Mountaineering, Leath Tonino
Moths To A Flame: The Light And Dark Of Reading Accidents In North American Mountaineering, Leath Tonino
Appalachia
A climber finds two issues of the American Alpine Club’s annual accidents reports from 2013 and 2014 and ruminates on his obsessions.
Sky's The Limit: Seeing The Future In A Disturbing Summer Storm, Lela Stanley
Sky's The Limit: Seeing The Future In A Disturbing Summer Storm, Lela Stanley
Appalachia
A disturbing electrical storm in July 2020 in Washington, D.C. demarcates a break with the past. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.
More Than Meets The Eye: Step By Step, Exploring Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest, David K. Leff
More Than Meets The Eye: Step By Step, Exploring Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest, David K. Leff
Appalachia
The 6,300-acre Great Mountain Forest in northwestern Connecticut, once an industrial landscape of charcoal making for iron ore smelting, today is one of the most wild and remote tracts in southern New England.
Why The World Needs The Night: A Visit To The Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park, Laura Poppick
Why The World Needs The Night: A Visit To The Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park, Laura Poppick
Appalachia
A visit to Second Annual See the Dark Festival at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s International Dark Sky Park in the North Maine Woods.
The Long Way Home: A New Take On Wilderness: Hermits, Bears, And Opportunism, Christine Woodside
The Long Way Home: A New Take On Wilderness: Hermits, Bears, And Opportunism, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Christopher Knight, a notorious hermit, burglarized cottages and a camp in Maine for 27 years. Comparison of stealth camping to behavior of wild animals.
Appalachia Summer/Fall 2024: Complete Issue
Appalachia Summer/Fall 2024: Complete Issue
Appalachia
Summer/Fall 2024 - Volume LXXV, Number 2 - Issue #258. Dark Places: Exploring pitch black skies, a forest, and a storm.
Murder Your Green Darlings, Sanyukta Shiv Kumar, Vibha Vasanth
Murder Your Green Darlings, Sanyukta Shiv Kumar, Vibha Vasanth
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
Violets Of An Immigrant Child, Sanyukta Shiv Kumar
Violets Of An Immigrant Child, Sanyukta Shiv Kumar
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
Cowboy Killers, Jacob Campbell