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At Home In The Big Woods

Nancy Overcott and her husband Art moved to the Big Woods in the early 1970s. She documented her experiences in her book of essays: At Home in the Big Woods. Melissa Wray reads an essay from the book.

(Original artwork by Diane Knight)

Poetry: Rearrange | Begin Again

Artist and poet Diane Knight—author of Putting Down Words, a book of poems and doodles—shares two new poems with our readers.

Snowfall creates beauty on ordinary structures as witnessed by this bucolic winter photo.  The sheep fence creates a vantage point from which to view the valley with its flocked trees in the distance. (Photo by Renee Bergstrom) 

Seasonal Photo

Photographer Renée Bergstrom captures a winter scene in this seasonal photo.

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