Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
Kale Poland is the progenitor of a new philosophy of physical fitness. “Cleetus Fit” eschews the gymnasium and sees practitioners hoisting large rocks, mud wrestling with cows, and sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon while seated in the Lotus position.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower
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In a world where our time and attention are fractured into smaller and smaller bits, legendary biologist and runner Bernd Heinrich is a throwback, a man who has carved a deep grove in his patch of Maine woods.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photo by Jesse Burke.
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The joys and agonies of maintaining the picket fence at my family’s ancient home in New Hampshire.
Yankee
Edited by Ian Aldrich. Illustration by Cindy Rizza.
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After 18 years and $1.5 million, the Islamic Society of New Hampshire is still struggling to build its own place of worship.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Miranda Purves. Photograph by Christopher Gregory.
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Of the hundred slaves to toil for President George Washington, Ona Judge was the only one to escape and tell her story.
Amazon Kindle Singles
Edited by Ali Castleman.
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Until he died at age 71, while rowing on a lake in Maine, my college cross country and track coach, Jim Wescott was a mentor and sensei to hundreds of athletes. Here’s an account of what it was like to run for him.
Colby Magazine
Edited by Gerry Boyle.
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In August, 1913, pudgy middle-aged Joe Knowles stepped naked into the woods of Maine, to see if he could live as a primitive man. When he returned home to Boston two months later, clad in a bearskin, 200,000 people greeted him.
Boston Magazine
Edited by Toby Lester.
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A summer with the college students working in the rustic hikers’ huts of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Edited by Dennis Lewon.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon
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The summer I turned 18, I lived with my grandmother in our family’s rambling summer home in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. It was an unusual housing scenario, but somehow the experience kind of launched my writing career.
The Smart Set
Edited by Jason Wilson.
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