THE NATURE JOURNAL: British Soldiers (And Other Lichens)

Every relationship has its problems, and sometimes the basic nature of a relationship must be called into question. Such is the case with seemingly simple creatures called lichens. 

ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Reuben Chapman

Born in Virginia in 1799 and educated in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Reuben Chapman traveled to Alabama at age twenty-five to join his brother, a Huntsville attorney. After reading law in…

THE NATURE JOURNAL: Muscadines and Scuppernongs

Toward the end of Walden, Henry David Thoreau reminisces that “In October I went agraping to the river meadows, and loaded myself with cluster more precious for their beauty and…