Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast

Contents

johN elder Foreword vii Acknowledgments xi pavel CeNkl Reading Place in the Northern Forest 1 Encounters timothy stetter Meeting Twinflower (Linnaea borealis) 17 tereNCe d. mosher Music of the Northern Forest: Boreal Birdsong in Literature and on the Trail 28 Natalie Coe Life as Beech: Survival in the New England Forest 49 Teaching and Learning kathleeN osgood daNa Robert Frost in the Fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää at the Treeline: Ecological Knowledge and Academic Learning at the Northern Forest Edge 61 erNest h. williams, patriCk d. reyNolds, aNd oNNo oerlemaNs Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks 77 jill mudgett Youth, Refinement, and Environmental Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century Rural North 98 Contents vi • CoNteNts CatheriNe oweN koNiNg, robert g. goodby, aNd johN r. harris Place as a Catalyst for Engaged Learning at Franklin Pierce University 133 Rethinking Place larry aNdersoN Benton MacKaye’s 1904 White Mountains Hike: Exploring a Landscape of Logging, “Camp Ethics,” and Patriotism 153 daNiel s. malaChuk William James at Chocorua: A Northern Forest Philosopher 171 riChard paradis A Traverse of the Presidential Range with the Scottish Highlands on My Mind 187 jim warreN Living with the Woods: Disturbance Histories in Thoreau and Burroughs 213 Nature as Commodity prisCilla patoN In Awe of the Body: Physical Contact, Indulgence Shopping, and Nature Writing 227 loriaNNe disabato Claiming Maine: Acquisition and Commodification in Thoreau’s The Maine Woods 246 matthew boliNder So Much Beauty Locked Up in It: Of Ecocriticism and Axe-Murder 261 Contributors 277 Index 281 ...