Monthly Archives: September 2015

I’m standing atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine, pointing toward a small fishing village called Steuben, where my family lived for three chilly years from 1989 to 1992. This is where I attended kindergarten and elementary school through … Continue reading →

It’s an annual event on the southern Connecticut River: tree swallows swarming. I was invited to see it by the local outdoorsman Steve Fagin, who gave me no more details than that it was an “unbelievable spectacle.” “You’ll have to see for yourself,” he told … Continue reading →