Tiny oven, big Thanksgiving

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted in Food, Maine days | No Comments »

Up at the Maine cabin for Thanksgiving, we put our new (since summer) Sears-bought, 20-inch wide gas oven to the test. It's a tiny workhorse. We cooked on all burners and both oven racks, from turkey to stuffing ...

A red wolf so rare

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Wild animals and places | No Comments »

In research for a story about the native wolf of the South, I spent a couple of afternoons last month watching a spry 14-year-old female who’s lived most of her life in captivity. Her wildness was still there, very ...