John Elder
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Books by John Elder
Nonfiction
Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods
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John Elder
In these essays, the author describes how he found a way to balance his passions for literature and for the outdoors by building a sugarhouse with his sons in the Vermont woods. For him, the “frog run”—the tail end of the sugaring season in New England—is a time to savor the fleeting beauties of his family’s place on earth.
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