by bill-youngs | Oct 24, 2023 | Fireside Talks
“We were not allowed to use the words global and warming in the same paragraph.” A few years ago I was at a high school reunion in Indiana and had an interesting conversation with a classmate, Jan Van Wagtendonk — you already know Jan from a YouTube...
by bill-youngs | Oct 24, 2023 | Fireside Talks
History 452 Graduate Students: This essay has a word or two about the seemingly unlikely connection between mechanical and humanistic talents in three leading naturalists. In looking for the final version of the ms, I was unable to find the latest draft; so the...
by bill-youngs | Sep 19, 2023 | Fireside Talks
During August, 2021, I went to Tanzania with my family — eight of us in all. During this Fall Quarter I will post notes and images on our Safari for our course on the American wilderness. Now, of course, Tanzania is not part of the US, but by looking at...
by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Herewith three wilderness-related stories occasioned by three weeks I spent during fall, 2011, at Acadia National Park in Maine — examples of some of my own reflections on life close to the wilderness. 1. On the Edge of a “Northeaster” — I was...
by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks, National Park
By Motorboat in Ross Lake National Recreation Area and North Cascades National Park During the fall of 2012 I spent several days at Ross Lake with my son, Ted, and my granddaughter, Oona, age four. Reviewing a video I made of the trip now several years later, I find...
