ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & STORIES

Fast Times on the Hudson

"Fast Times on the Hudson" June 2020, Adirondack Life

Sensory Fieldwork

"Sensory Fieldwork" February 2020, Adirondack Life

Death of John Cody

"Death of John Cody" June 2017, Adirondack Life

The Symbolic Coast

An essay appearing in the August, 2014 edition of the Green Mountain Review 1. In 1991 archeologist Chris Henshilwood dug an oblong piec...

Back to the Source

I got out of the canoe below the barrier dam and stood up to my shins in the outlet. And there it was, the largest privately owned lake i...

The Clearing: Hadley, 1969

After skiing into Bushnell Falls that March of ’69, our intention was always to move to the Adirondacks as permanently and as soon as we ...

Rain, Colden Trap Dyke, 1962

Rain usually accompanied our hikes out of YMCA camp at Pilot Knob, on Lake George, in the late fifties and sixties, sometimes hard rain. ...

Bank Swallows: Thurman, 1955

O swallows, swallows, poems are not The point. Finding again the world,That is the point…. From “The Blue Swallows,” Howard Nemerov In th...

Inklings of Change: Bushnell Falls, 1969

On the spring equinox of March, 1969, I snowshoed and skied into Bushnell Falls, on the slopes of Mount Marcy, with Sam Lewis and two fri...

The Geography of Religious Experience

An article in the New York Times (September 9, 2007) THE greenish hue that tinted the air over the Van Hoevenberg Trail to Mount Marcy, i...

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