

This article was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Appalachia. For Thomas E. Musselman A European starling alights on the cedarwood nesting box. It starts to peck at the small round entrance hole…
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It’s time to pass the mic. Earlier this year, we put out a call for AMC stories in honor of our 150th anniversary. Stories of epic adventures, sweet connections, high mountain summits, and memories from AMC huts and lodges started coming...
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This article was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Appalachia. For Thomas E. Musselman A European starling alights on the cedarwood nesting box. It starts to peck at the small round entrance hole…
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This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2020 edition of Appalachia Journal. For five summers, from 1964 through 1968, I taught outdoor skills to Boy Scouts at Mead Base, a camp at the foot of…
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This story was first published in the Winter/Spring 2022 edition of Appalachia Journal. The oddest moment that day was when I came to the library—sort of—among the trees. At a complicated junction of groomed and…
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This story was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Appalachia Journal. The narrator in this piece—determined by a flip of an Old Man of the Mountain New Hampshire state quarter—is Rob Powers. Dedicated to…
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This story was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Appalachia Journal. Topsoil lies thin on the ancient slopes of The Western Catskills. As the locals say, it’s two rocks to every dirt. Given that…
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