Radio Free New Hampshire: Autumn Book Report

The years came and went and the big sea that Melville wrote about stayed where it had always been, off the New England coast, and as his hero Ishmael writes about the feeling of November in his soul, I soon linked this book to autumn and I would find myself reading it accordingly every few years.

Speaking of Words: Let’s Talk Turkey

The bird we know as the turkey, which we eat at Thanksgiving and see walking around our New Hampshire woods and lawns much of the year, is native to North America, mainly in the United States but with some in Mexico. 

Speaking of Words: Words About Nature

A reader suggested I write a column about words referring to nature and ecology.  That struck me as a good idea, because many such words have interesting histories and connections to other words, and some have been recruited for ideological warfare.