Barbara Brotman
Thinking big, indeed, at this year's Humanities Festival
October 11, 2008
So have you bought your ticket yet to the talk on the physics of time travel? The panel discussion on visual perspective? The six-hour unabridged performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"?
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Cure those fall blahs with a color paddle down the Kish
September 18, 2008
The secret to a fall color paddling trip is flexibility and preparation.
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Become a volunteer urban forester
September 11, 2008
Pam Holy and George Davis headed out of the little slice of butterfly heaven that is the Burnham Nature Sanctuary, Davis holding a pruner and Holy lugging industrial-grade limb loppers in a bucket.
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Outdoors adviser: Stroll Visitation Prairie
September 4, 2008
Nothing beats a good walk in the woods.
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Explore nature as a work in progress at Midewin
August 14, 2008
With summer still splendid, and all the more precious as it wanes, it's time for a big outing to a big wilderness. Things don't get much bigger than the 18,000-acre Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, so my friend Joanna and I headed down to the former Joliet Arsenal-turned-nature-site, our bikes on the car rack and our curiosity primed.
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Ponds: Where science and serenity meet
July 17, 2008
Dragonflies flitting over a quiet pond in the midday heat. A classic rural scene of summer, no?
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Good for the soul, but what about cellulite?
January 10, 2008
OK, people. Let's roll ourselves out the door. The indoor party is over. It's time for the outdoor cure.
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