march I april 2009 Vol. 28 I No.2
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
20 Artifice v. Pastoral
JAY GRIFFITHS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
REBECCA HORNE
Championing an old idea over a
surrealistically modern threat.
28 All You Can Eat
JIM CARRIER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
JAMIE GOLDENBERG
Plunge into the disturbing world
of America’s favorite seafood.
34 Bucking a Stiff Ebb Tide
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY
ROGER PINCKNEY
O= the Carolina coast, it’s still
possible to make a real living
from real >shing.
38 Forbidden Forest
PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT BY
JONATHAN OLLEY
How a long-ago war continues to
generate casualties.
ART OF LIVING
46 Underfoot Earth Turns
GARY SNYDER
ART BY TOM KILLION
A spiral journey through both
topography and time.
52 Kidding Season
LYDIA PEELLE
A story of ?ight and forgetting,
punctuated by a ?ock of goats.
64 Muddy Hands
PAINTINGS BY PETER KINNEY
Putting the art supplies provided
by the planet to use.
GROUNDSWELL
68 A Walk in the Woods
RICHARD LOUV
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
SONJA THOMSEN
Should children be guaranteed
access to nature?
DEPARTMENTS
1 From the Editors
4 Contributors
5 Mailbox
8 Sacred & Mundane
13 Point of View
The Adored, Buzzing Around Us
SHARMAN APT RUSSELL
Finding beauty in unexpectedly
beautiful creatures.
14 Making Other Arrangements
72 Reviews
78 Ear to the Ground
80 Coda
Nails
KATRINA VANDENBERG
COLUMNS
16 Each Other—Where We Are
Sounds Like a Lot to Me
SANDRA STEINGRABER
The author shares her personal
>nances—and you should, too.
18 Small Change
Plants Suck
BILL MCKIBBEN
And that may turn out to be great
news for our ailing climate.
POEMS
27 Be Here First
Ellen Doré Watson
37 Ovid’s List of Hounds
F. Daniel Rzicznek
51 The Plain Speech
Mary Rose O’Reilley
63 Eskimo whizzamajig
Elizabeth Brad>eld
Got shrimp?
See page 28.
