Too far north for architects
Subtitle: stories from a New Hampshire farm and beyond
By: by Stearns A. Morse
Publisher: Off-the-Common Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amherst, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781937146160
Subjects: Anecdotes; Geologists
Table of contents: title: 1. A sampler: stories near and far; title: A farm view: the setting of Goose Lane Farm in Swiftwater; title: Helicopter man: an uncle who changed the world; title: Buster and the butt chains: a logging farmer and master storyteller; title: Early signs of a real winter: musings on the redpoll and other critters; title: Wings of the morning: Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Labrador; title: Happiness is a damp cat: a celebration of spring with Simpkin; title: Odell's gully and the man himself: a name to conjure with, and a fresh ski story; title: 2. Interlude: places farther away; title: A prodigal company of caribou: field work in Labrador; title: One drop of water: a scientific rumination on the earth; title: The thole pin: in the narrows of Lake Melville, Labrador; title: Dragging out of Youngs Harbour: in the Moravian Mission motorboat in winter; title: Uncle Frank and the Southern Appalacian Trail: memories of a grand scientist; title: Breakfast with Willy: the Nobel Prize winner William Fowler; title: 3. Mostly chronological; title: Let us now praise famous men: Carroll Hastings of Woodsville and John Lyons of Hanover; title: Report from the sugarbush: springtime in Swiftwater; title: Hawaii to Austria, via Moosilauke: memories of Richard Morse and skiing; title: The great Easter egg theft: report from down country; title: Bets: an old New England set piece; title: Town encounters: he just wanted to go hunting in South Landaff; title: Who remembers Nansen?: well, my great aunt, for one; title: The grader: fooling around with Buster Peters; title: Gray squirrel years: it might be an 8-year cycle; title: Squirrels up and down: being raked by mockingbirds; title: A good year for wildlife: but not for people in 2001; title: 4. Beyond confusion: Robert Frost and Swiftwater stories; title: In his own words: Stearns Morse on Robert Frost; title: Recollections of Rober Frost: from our family; title: Swiftwater stories: from Stearns and Susan Morse; title: Picture gallery; title: 5. From molasses to mayhem; title: The great molasses caper: closing the houses for winter; title: The Big Mac on fire: Buster Peters is chagrined; title: Moosilauke from both sides: at work on the mountain; title: Mowing by hand, then and now: the art of the scyth, in the grass and writing; title: Nothing runs like a cat: does your cat run deer?; title: Flying beavers in Labrador: not the animals but the airplanes; title: Why does the sap rise in trees?: an essay on sugaring Scholander; title: Mayhem on the river: a letter home from Cambridge; title: 6. Too far north for architects; title: Bogus credentials?; title: Too far north; title: 7. Plate tectonics to ski stories; title: Continental drift and the Christian lion: we discover the J. Tuzo Wilsons; title: Nambia 1995: a guided tour: in a van with extra special guides; title: How to sight-in a muzzleloader: an improbable result; title: Shad row and spring pollen: a play on roe, and a fix for sneezes; title: The other Dick's house: memories of the Dartmouth infimary; title: Ski story time: Art Bennett's ski shop; title: No more Mauja: memories of the Labrador teacher Kate Hettasch; title: Hahnenkamm memories: Austria, 1954; title: 8. Wild rivers and the big one; title: Running the wild Ammonoosuc: a pioneering canoe run / Anne Morse; title: Memoris of Sam Adams (1937-2006): almost 60 years of his 69; title: Starting an otter airplane by hand in Labrador - twice: it's a rope start; title: The Labrador travels of E. P. Wheeler: he discovers an unmapped river in 1935; title: Help comes to Perry's Gulch, and I find a wife: a broken leg and a Grenfell hospital; title: Skiing the wild Ammonoosuc, and other small miracles: on ice; title: Letter to Mr. Clemens: down the Mississippi in spate; title: 9. Remainders; title: The mystery of Thoresby Hall: Labrador names from the Napoleonic Wars; title: Thoresby Hall and Butterfields: guests for lunch; title: A suprise proposal to climb Mount Washington in winter: from a lost lady; title: Animal buddies and a stuck saw: August on the island; title: Charlie Lande of Bath, New Hampshire: a good life; title: A busy April on two continents: college founders to spring chores; title: In the engine room: the research schooner Blue Dolphin in Labrador; title: Eventing with Dyer-Bennet: the incomparable troubadour; title: The hut: a writer's escape in early years; title: Stealing time to saw the wood: before the rain; title: The Cavendish professor of physics: old timers and Brian Pippard; title: Contours, compression, and conversation: land, hay, and people at Goose Lane Farm.