The North Woods tradition of making maple syrup serves as an illuminating backdrop for John Elder’s reflections on nature, literature, playfulness, and fatherhood, as he builds a sugaring house with his sons.
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John Elder combines his passion for literature and his affection for the outdoors with his love of family. -- Outrider
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Celebration in the Vermont Wilds,
By Craig L. Howe "The Pointed Pundit" (Darien, CT United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Frog Run: Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods (Paperback)
John Elder, in this Credo Series book, intertwines observations of his three loves of - literature, nature and his family - into a celebration of life itself.The book's title marks the moment between winter and spring when the tree frogs commence croaking, warning of the last maple tree sap good for distilling into syrup. The Credo Series offers contemporary American writers an opportunity to discuss the fluid and subtle issues of a world in constant change. Elder offers a message of hope; a hope grounded his lineage, literature and the land; how he found balance building a sugarhouse with his sons in the Vermont Woods. My favorite essay in the collection is "Starting with the Psalms: A Reader's History" where he weaves memories of the 23rd Psalm into a discussion of John Milton's Paradise Lost with a little Annie Dillard, Robert Frost and Gary Snyder thrown in to season the discussion. Grounded in his experience as a professor and writer living in the Green Mountains of Vermont, Elder connects literature with the landscape that inspired it. Elder is a treasure; a man who seamlessly weaves the dots of his existence into a portrait that honors his observations of his place on earth.
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On a clear morning at the beginning of July, I drive south on Forest Road 49 in the Green Mountain National Forest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frog run, tree with the lights, environmental literature, nature writing, nature writers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bread Loaf, John Elder, Robert Frost, Gary Snyder, Middlebury College, New York, Reading the Mountains, Climbing the Crests, New England, Beacon Press, Following the Brush, Joseph Battell, Mary Oliver, Orion Society, Terry Tempest Williams, Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, Green Mountain National Forest, Paradise Lost, Scott Russell Sanders, Wendell Berry, Green Mountains, Milkweed Editions, Rochester Zen Center, Sand County Almanac New!
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On a clear morning at the beginning of July, I drive south on Forest Road 49 in the Green Mountain National Forest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frog run, tree with the lights, environmental literature, nature writing, nature writers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bread Loaf, John Elder, Robert Frost, Gary Snyder, Middlebury College, New York, Reading the Mountains, Climbing the Crests, New England, Beacon Press, Following the Brush, Joseph Battell, Mary Oliver, Orion Society, Terry Tempest Williams, Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, Green Mountain National Forest, Paradise Lost, Scott Russell Sanders, Wendell Berry, Green Mountains, Milkweed Editions, Rochester Zen Center, Sand County Almanac New!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 6 pages
- Following the Brush: An American Encounter with Classical Japanese Culture by John C. Elder on 5 pages
- A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold on 5 pages
- The Range of Light by Philip Hyde on 4 pages
- Reading the Mountains of Home by John Elder on page 110, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Toward the Livable City (The World As Home) by Emilie Buchwald in Back Matter
- The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology (The World As Home) by Mary Rose O'Reilley in Back Matter
- At the End of Ridge Road by Joseph Bruchac in Back Matter
- The Pine Island Paradox (The World As Home) by Kathleen Dean Moore in Back Matter
- The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World (The World As Home) by Kathleen Dean Moore in Back Matter
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