bwoodward4Jun 12, 2022Landscape and MeaningI had an unexpected lesson the other day about the significance of landscape. I was intending to write about the impossibility of...
bwoodward4Jun 1, 2022Local at the BorderI had pictured the U.S.-Mexico border as a line through the desert from San Diego to El Paso and then down the Rio Grande to the Gulf of...
bwoodward4May 21, 2022Grappling with the Mississippi DeltaIt’s attractive farm country, like the San Joaquin Valley, but with more trees and no Sierras on the eastern horizon, and Nebraska, but...
bwoodward4May 19, 2022Embodied in the OutdoorsWell the Mississippi Delta brought me up short. To write another of these mini-essays about people’s relationship to the Delta would mean...
bwoodward4May 11, 2022Will Gullah Culture Survive?First, apologies to those of you who subscribed to this blog but haven’t been receiving email notifications. The problem has hopefully...
bwoodward4May 5, 2022History and Imagination in the Great Dismal SwampIn the coastal lowlands of Virginia and North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp has a long and colorful history and an even greater...
bwoodward4Apr 30, 2022Cape May and the OceanCape May turns out to be a fine place to consider our relationship with nature and climate. The southern tip of New Jersey, with the...
Burns WoodwardApr 23, 2022Under Way at Last . . .this morning. I-90 to 84 and on past NYC to Exit Zero--Cape May, NJ, the southern end of the Garden State Parkway. Primo birding town of...