What’s for Dinner

…The early Native Americans, legend has it, would tap the maple tree, remove the sap, and place it in large bark troughs where it would freeze. The ice could then…

Paddling Home from School

…the mouth of the Connecticut River well. My commute between my parents’ houses was faster by water than car, crossing the channel from North Cove in Essex to head to…

Early Morning Row

…seat in its tracks, I gingerly grasp the oars in my right hand (freeing the left to hold onto the dock should the need arise), place my right foot in…

Paddling Home from School

…well. My commute between my parents’ houses was faster by water than car, crossing the channel from North Cove in Essex to head to the protected Lord’s Cove in Old…

One Photograph: Birds? Why BIRDS?

…better by the rocking of one’s stomach or the smart of salt spray. But there was one bracing compensation: the close company of Ospreys, sailing over on their huge kinked…

letter to the editor

…your thoughts Upload Hold CTRL (on Windows) and Command (on MAC) to select multiple items. Choose a file Max. size: 80.0 MB Submission Agreement I confirm that this submission is…

Conte Corner- Friends of Conte

…and the communities served by it. Friends of Conte bring needed resources, financial and otherwise, to the Watershed in many ways, and we’d like to share some of these “tools…

Vermont’s Spectacular Waterfalls

…slopes, Mill Brook plunges 84 feet over a wide granite ledge. Nearby Little Cascade Falls, on a smaller stream that often dries up in late spring and summer, comprises a…

A Small Bead Called Wampum

…trade, they never really understood its role among Native People. Traders quickly latched onto these shell beads as a commodity for use in a commercial enterprise, and from the very…

River Heroes

…was also on the Connecticut Historical Commission, the Connecticut River Watershed Council, the Middlesex County Revitalization Commission and the board of the Connecticut River Museum. But it was as an…

Water and Forests

…as a community. Parcels come up for sale all the time, and once sold a forested parcel could be developed. But a parcel could instead be purchased in order to…

Wildlife Wonders- Red Squirrels

…from predators, most live 3–5 years, or less. Bill Hobbs writes a nature column for The Day newspaper in New London, CT. He can be reached for comments at whobbs246@gmail.com.\n\n…

What’s For Dinner?

…fennel and apples around the pork. Combine whole grain mustard, honey, orange zest, orange juice, and thyme in a bowl and whisk together. Brush the mixture over the pork and…

A Tenuous Success Story

…private citizens coming forward to urge more stringent menhaden conservation, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission agreed for the first time to consider the needs of predatory fish in setting…

Name Gourmand

…cove where, out with the tide and in, the common mummichog and banded killifish swim. I imagine if I’ve seen a thing— golden club, sweet flag, reed canary grass— its…

About the Seasonal Ecology Mural

About the Seasonal Ecology Mural “Seasonal Ecology Mural” by Mike di Giorgio. Courtesy of Connecticut River Museum. Photo by Cultural Preservation Technologies. In 2016, the Connecticut River Museum commissioned renowned…