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Americans aren't supposed to run away. The very word 'retreat' is anathema to them. So why is Sarasota County commissioner Jon Thaxton telling us we should no longer try to [...]

Cdr. Ted Williams, the XO of VAQ-131 deployed aboard Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), wrote an email home about Lincoln's response to the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. We are glad [...]

ON MAY 18, 2001, a day after unveiling an 'energy plan' hatched secret with the energy industry, President Bush signed Executive Order 13212. Following a nearly identical proposal offered by [...]

Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale. By Ted Williams. Apr. 2020.256p. illus. Storey, paper, $16.95 [...]

An alliance between local guides, environmentalists, sportsmen and lodge owners, which is called Downeast Lakes Land Trust and the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) have formed a project for protecting thousands of acres of pristine forest region. This project will benefit the large number of species residing in the forest and protect the flora and fauna of the forest.

EVEN 152 YEARS after it was made famous by Stephen Foster, the Suwannee fits the song. From the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia (the continent's biggest swamp, and one of [...]

Many baseball fans consider Ted Williams the greatest hitter of all time. But when the 'Splendid Splinter' died of cardiac arrest last summer at age 83, a bizarre turn of [...]

THERE ARE NO DOCKS OR VESSELS AT PORT HOUGHTON, ALASKA. In fact, there are no buildings, no roads, no landing strips, no people. Getting there by boat is possible but [...]

Ted Williams had one goal when he became a major-league baseball player in 1939. "All I want out of life," he said. "is that when I walk down the street, […]

The great improvement in the performance of the Senators under the management of Ted Williams in the 1969 season is discussed.

UNDER A LOW WINTER SUN muted by the leading edge of an ice storm sailing in from Oklahoma, I trudge up Moore Hill above the old Shottsville, Alabama, cemetery and [...]

Hemp, which is harmless and should not be confused with marijuana, is extremely versatile. Hemp fibres make very durable and comfortable cloth, and hemp paper is naturally bright.

Presents a response by Ted Williams to a letter to the editor about his article on "Public Menace," in the July-August 2005 issue.

Presents a response by Ted Williams to a letter to the editor about his article "The Second Century," in the June 2003 issue.

The article presents hypothetical propositions regarding the careers of the late Major League Baseball stars Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, and it examines the potential hitting-related statistics that the two players might have recorded if their baseball careers were not interrupted due to their U.S. military service in World War II and the Korean War. Statistics involving home runs, runs batted in (RBIs), and hits are examined.

Warblers rustled through newly leafed hardwoods, and American shad surged up the wide Potomac. The morning air smelled of wet earth; the floodplain was bright with azure wild-flowers I'd never […]

Every spring, when cowslips blaze yellow in Meadow Brook and peepers jangle around the marshy fringes of Poler's Pond, I lead an evening 'woodcock walk' to the Grafton Conservation Area, [...]