Cymbella Cistula

…water conditions. These data and models allow environmental professionals to design clean-up plans or demonstrate how a high-quality water body can remain in good health. And one of those important…

Estuary for Young Readers

…like everybody in Saybrook was at the Town Hall meeting tonight. When news got out that a representative from the New Haven & New London Railroad would come here to…

Let’s Go

…land trust projects across the state. Add your voice to the conversation. Together with Connecticut’s land trusts, legislators and their communities, and YOU, participants will tour preserves, farms, community gardens,…

Turn & Face the River

David Mears, the Executive Director of Audubon Vermont.\n\n Building a Watershed Collaborative for Future Communities\n\n By Eric D. Lehman\n\n At a small, hidden spring in the highlands near the Canadian…

Birding in the Old Lyme Area

…Osprey, Clapper Rail, waders, shorebirds—including nesting Willet and the occasional Whimbrel (uncommon)—Common and Least Terns, and Saltmarsh and Seaside Sparrows in summer. Spotted Sandpipers are fairly common nesters, while American…

Currents of Culture

…like libraries, farms, and, of course, museums. “Coming to Connecticut I was afraid of homogeneity,” says Anna Swinbourne. “But I discovered that there is incredible diversity here, combined with the…

Japanese Barberry

…is a familiar one. This introduced shrub has advantages: the ability to tolerate the full spectrum of light, including deep shade; attractive and abundant berries (with a germination rate in…

Below the Surface- The “Silver” Eel

…the fish is ready but waiting. Waiting for the fall rains to come to trigger its migration. Even though it is one of the Connecticut River’s largest fish, very few…

One Photograph- Little Bird, Big Song

…Wren—or as we know it now, the Sedge Wren. The Long-billed Marsh Wren (now called simply Marsh Wren) was common enough in my home cattail marshes on the lower Connecticut…

The Hartford Wits & the World They Made

…century later, the Wits would be largely forgotten, thought to be “unreadable,” and embarrassing examples of “epic pomp.” This is fairly common for literary movements, and the second one in…

The Spirit of The Kate

…of Old Saybrook.” The Kate aimed to be different than its companions upriver, a mix of national acts and community acts, pivoting between music, theater, dance, comedy, and more throughout…

New England’s First State Forest

…over decades for industrial charcoal and fuelwood. Wildfires were common. Walter Mulford, the first state forester, wanted to demonstrate how to grow timber, especially chestnut, and control fires. Built after…

Estuary for Young Readers #15

This article appears in the Fall 2024 issue\n\n \n\n Tales of a Connecticut River Ferryman’s Son\n\n Story and illustrations by Leslie Tryon\n\n Chapter 15: Decisions, Decisions\n\n President Lincoln’s 1862 call…

Take Me Fishing!

…a veteran fisher or a duffer, remember that the ultimate angling experience for a child is not reeling in a record billfish, but simply catching something—anything outside of an old…

What’s for Dinner?

…to enjoy shad is completely simple and can be, if creatively presented, an elegant hors d’oeuvre. If you’re not up for trying shad at home, there are several community events…

Hetty Green

…down but not to give up his penchant for high living. This high roller and stiff Quaker married in 1867. He was 47; she was 34. By this time, Hetty…

Practical Beauty

…Holyoke a Green Community, and the high-speed fiber optic network, solar panels, and hydroelectric resources drew the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center to Holyoke in 2012. “The City of…