The award-winning Public Broadcasting System station WGBH’s award-winning program NOVA recently broadcast an episode titled The Ghosts of Machu Pichu – which thanks to their praiseworthy practice of posting many of their most popular programs online, can be watched in its entirety for free. While I will not be visiting Machu Picchu on my trip to […]
John E. Riutta
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
If only the eleventh chapter of Elizabeth J. Rosenthal’s Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson was the entirety of the book, it would still be well worth the cover price…
The Life of the Skies
“Everyone is a birdwatcher, but there are two kinds of birdwatchers: those who know what they are and those who haven’t realized it yet.” So begins The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature, Jonathan Rosen’s investigation into not only the history of bird watching but into its very underlying spirit. While […]
Stamp Collecting
Like many people living in rural areas all across America, I was awakened this past Saturday morning in the same manner I have been on week-end mornings for the past few months now – by the sound of gunfire in the distance.