The Forgotten Flood of 1936

…their houses, watching the water rise higher and higher, peering down from their second-floor windows into the icy muck. W. Robert McDonald remembered sewer covers popping into the air and…

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

…saving the Common Loon from imminent extirpation in Vermont, for example. VCE’s army of volunteer citizen scientists—people like you— pour their hearts and souls (and collectively, a huge amount of…

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

…Common Loon from imminent extirpation in Vermont, for example. VCE’s army of volunteer citizen scientists—people like you— pour their hearts and souls (and collectively, a huge amount of time and…

What’s For Dinner? Oyster Fritters

…say that the best oyster in the world comes from the Delta de L’Ebre situated between Barcelona and Valencia, Spain. The saltiness of the Mediterranean combines with the sweetness of…

What’s For Dinner? Spring Asparagus Two Ways

This article appears in the Spring 2024 issue\n\n Spring Asparagus Two Ways\n\n By Melody Tierney\n\n Welcome to spring! It’s such a delicious time of the year. But of course, every…

My Ride Down Hog River

…waste. In the 1860s both Jewell Belting Company (which made the belts that every factory needed to operate machinery) and Sharp’s Rifle Manufacturing (a supplier of rifles to the Union…

Below the Surface- Behold the Mighty Minnow

…small, notwithstanding our example of the carp, which was introduced from Europe over 150 years ago. The carp’s close relative, the goldfish, is also a minnow. We’ve commented in earlier…

Lydia Sigourney

…dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles. High childhood mortality rates assured her an ongoing audience for elegies, but she also wrote self-help treatises, history, etiquette, and social commentary….

From the Publisher:

…Major with 28 years of service. She has two combat tours to Iraq and had many assignments in leadership positions, culminating with her last military career assignment as the Command…

Estuary for Young Readers #12

…of freedom, We will gather from the hillside, We’ll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry of Freedom. The words fell into rhythm with the Left-Right-left cadence. Next he…

Ferries of the River

…the River well into the foreseeable future. Come 2055, 400 years of continuous service between Rocky Hill and Glastonbury will be a commemoration truly worth celebrating. Renwick (Wick) Griswold is…

The Secret Bog

…and felt the cold come through. All set: I burrowed in under the focusing cloth, composed and focused, and then recomposed, refocused, and set aperture and shutter speed; then took…

The Art & Science
of the Connecticut River

…people who have come to the museums as children, who are now coming with grandchildren. We can have impact over not just one lifetime, but many.” It seems strange at…

Let’s Go

…preview will be from 5:00–6:00 p.m. The Live Auction at 6:00 p.m. will be followed by Dinner, $50 per person. Reservation forms are available at: ctriversalmon.org. For questions, email: info@ctriversalmon.org.\n\n…

Gardening for Good- The Best Time to Garden

…dunes, were not always so abundant, or robust. In fact, there was a time when this plant was barely noticeable as a member of our native marsh plant community. Fall…

The Many Gifts of a Crow

…have garbage pickup on that day,” he said. Bill Hobbs is a nature columnist for The Day in New London, CT. For comments, he can be reached at whobbs246@gmail.com. Image…