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John Elder
John Elder teaches English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and is the author most recently of Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run. His wife, Rita, and he live in Bristol, Vermont, where they operate a maple sugarhouse with their three children.
Dust of Snow: Awakening to Conversation
In a world of transience, is conservation just another form of attachment?
A Lingering Taste
Literature professor and wilderness activist John Elder ruminates on the Japanese game of Go as a metaphor for biological succession—and for the surprising patterns of his own life.
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