Please follow the link below to a piece written by EE blogger Richard Telford for University of Connecticut: Nature, Wondrous and Fragile: The Correspondence Of Rachel Carson and Edwin Way Teale Preserved in the Edwin Way Teale Papers.
Originally posted on The Ecotone Exchange:
Edwin Way Teale at work in the blind he constructed near Hampton Brook in his beloved home sanctuary, Trail Wood, in Hampton, Connecticut. Copyright, the estate of Edwin Way Teale, managed by the University of Connecticut Library…
Edwin Way Teale at work in the blind he constructed near Hampton Brook in his beloved home sanctuary, Trail Wood, in Hampton, Connecticut. Copyright, the estate of Edwin Way Teale, managed by the University of Connecticut Library System. Used with permission. When it … Continue reading
By Richard Telford On October 17, 1959, less than six months after moving to Trail Wood, the beloved private nature sanctuary where he would spend the rest of his life, American naturalist writer Edwin Way Teale wrote the following entry … Continue reading
By Richard Telford The powerful forces of forest succession threaten always to engulf the 18th-century stonewalls that surround our 1770 center-chimney farmhouse. During the restoration of the house, we largely gave up trying to stem the encroachment of the surrounding … Continue reading
By Richard Telford Several years ago I removed the rotten eaves of several sections of our 1770 farmhouse and began to reproduce them with like materials. I extended the rafters, cut and installed soffits, even drilled holes for louvered vents … Continue reading
By Richard Telford At a recent library sale held at my daughter’s school, I bought a discarded copy of Hal Borland’s Twelve Moons of the Year. The 1979 book, a posthumously published selection of Borland’s natural history editorials printed in … Continue reading
By Richard Telford On December 28, 1959, Life Magazine released a special bonus issue to usher in a new decade, titling it “The Good Life.” Life’s editors declared, “The new leisure is here. For the first time a civilization has … Continue reading
By: Richard Telford Recently, the twelfth anniversary of my father’s death, February 9th, passed quietly—for me a day of wide-ranging reflection. My deep grounding in the natural world—and my drive to explore and celebrate and advocate for it through writing … Continue reading
By: Richard Telford In June of 1995, several days after the last school day of my second year of teaching, I packed the capped bed of my 1988 Toyota 4×4 pickup with clothes, camping gear, books, and other necessities. I … Continue reading
