Words from the Wild: Favorite Columns from a Yankee Notebook

A collection of columns about the wilderness of New England and more from well-known New Hampshire and Vermont naturalist and commentator Willem Lange.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Camping on the Connecticut River
Lonesome Lake Isn't All That Lonesome
A Notch Full of Rocks
Mushing Through Maine
Descent into the MaelstromOn a Big Whoopie Cushion
A Nostalgic Trip to an Abandoned Island
Chipmunks, Kids, and Mountaintops
Hang Gliding: Once is Enough!
Mother Charges Up Mount Cardigan, and Disappears
A Long Night and a Long Day on Top of Maine
A Presidential Traverse
A New Year's Day (Climbing) Party
Camping with the ScoutsAgain
A Trail Too Far, and Far Too Steep
Hiking with Tom and Atticus
A Busy Week Ends with a Loop
North of the Notches
Fishing with Alfred
The Recovering Woods of Maine
Devil's Gulch in the Heart of Eden
Mysteries of Dogtown
Hiking in the Dark
The Warrior Hikers
A Hike to a Long-Ago Plane Crash
The Emerald Necklace
Interesting People
Mountain Day at Colby-Sawyer College
This Mountain Stands Alone in Memory Too
Related Windows to the Wild Episodes
Acknowledgments

Willem Lange has worked as an Adirondack guide, a preacher, a bartender, a construction laborer, a cab driver, a bob-sled run announcer, a bookkeeper, a ranch hand, a high-school English teacher, a carpenter, a contractor, and from 1968 to 1972 he directed Dartmouth College’s Outward Bound Center. For more than thirty years he has been writing a weekly column, A Yankee Notebook, which appears in newspapers all over New England. He is a regular commentator on Vermont Public Television and Vermont Public Radio, and the host of New Hampshire Public Television’s award-winning series, Windows to the Wild.