Sy Montgomery
To research books, films and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica, worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana.She has been deftly undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels and dolphins in the Amazon. She has searched the Altai Mountains of Mongolia’s Gobi for snow leopards and hiked into the trackless cloud forest of Papua New Guinea to radiocollar tree kangaroos. Lately she has been scuba diving with octopuses.Sy’s 20 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. She is the winner of a New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, a Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (given by the ASPCA for Humane Education), the Sibert Medal for Children's nonfiction, and dozens of other honors. Her work with the man-eating tigers, the subject of her book Spell Of The Tiger, was made into in a National Geographic television documentary she scripted and narrated. Also for National Geographic TV she developed and scripted Mother Bear Man, about her friend, Ben Kilham, who raises and releases orphaned bear cubs, which won a Chris award.
She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.
She lives with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, their border collie, Sally, and seven hens in Hancock, NH.
She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.
She lives with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, their border collie, Sally, and seven hens in Hancock, NH.
Howard Mansfield
“Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing,” said the writer and critic Guy Davenport. “He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first-class cultural historian. He is humane, witty, bright-minded, and rigorously intelligent. His deep subject is Time: how we deal with it and how it deals with us.”
Writing about preservation, architecture and American history, Howard Mansfield has contributed to The New York Times, American Heritage, The Washington Post, Historic Preservation, Yankee and other publications. Mansfield has explored issues of preservation in six books, including In the Memory House, of which The Hungry Mind Review said, “Now and then an idea suddenly bursts into flame, as if by spontaneous combustion. One instance is the recent explosion of American books about the idea of place… But the best of them, the deepest, the widest-ranging, the most provocative and eloquent is Howard Mansfield’s In the Memory House.”
Mansfield has served as a writer and consultant for the Claiming the Land exhibit at the New Hampshire Historical Society. For the Library of Congress Bicentennial he was the writer and project manager for one of the two projects representing New Hampshire in Local Legacies: A National Project to Document American Community Traditions.
His essays and articles on history and architecture have also appeared in: Doubletake, Orion, New Letters Quarterly, Metropolis, International Design, Small Press, Places Quarterly, West Hills Review, SITES, Design Book Review, Inland Architect, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Kansas City Star, Oakland Tribune, Newsday, Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register, ElleDecor, Air & Space Smithsonian, International Herald Tribune and other publications.
Mansfield’s work has been honored with the Gold Medal for Commentary for City and Regional Magazines and with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University.
He is on the advisory board of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University, and the Exhibitions and Publications Committee at the New Hampshire Historical Society. He is an occasional guest on radio and TV shows commenting on issues of historic preservation. He has been a keynote speaker at preservation conferences, and spoken to many historical societies, art museums, and colleges.
Writing about preservation, architecture and American history, Howard Mansfield has contributed to The New York Times, American Heritage, The Washington Post, Historic Preservation, Yankee and other publications. Mansfield has explored issues of preservation in six books, including In the Memory House, of which The Hungry Mind Review said, “Now and then an idea suddenly bursts into flame, as if by spontaneous combustion. One instance is the recent explosion of American books about the idea of place… But the best of them, the deepest, the widest-ranging, the most provocative and eloquent is Howard Mansfield’s In the Memory House.”
Mansfield has served as a writer and consultant for the Claiming the Land exhibit at the New Hampshire Historical Society. For the Library of Congress Bicentennial he was the writer and project manager for one of the two projects representing New Hampshire in Local Legacies: A National Project to Document American Community Traditions.
His essays and articles on history and architecture have also appeared in: Doubletake, Orion, New Letters Quarterly, Metropolis, International Design, Small Press, Places Quarterly, West Hills Review, SITES, Design Book Review, Inland Architect, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Kansas City Star, Oakland Tribune, Newsday, Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register, ElleDecor, Air & Space Smithsonian, International Herald Tribune and other publications.
Mansfield’s work has been honored with the Gold Medal for Commentary for City and Regional Magazines and with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University.
He is on the advisory board of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University, and the Exhibitions and Publications Committee at the New Hampshire Historical Society. He is an occasional guest on radio and TV shows commenting on issues of historic preservation. He has been a keynote speaker at preservation conferences, and spoken to many historical societies, art museums, and colleges.
Chris Schadler
Chris’ interest in wild canids began in 1979 as a volunteer at the Wolf Park in Battleground, Indiana under Dr. Erich Klinghammer. This opportunity and others inspired an eventual Masters in Conservation Biology at Antioch University Graduate School. Her thesis focused on the biological and social perspectives of natural recovery for the Eastern Timber Wolf in Michigan.
Beginning in the early 1990’s, Chris taught Conservation Issues and Wolf Ecology at the University of New Hampshire, receiving many teaching excellence and student recognition awards. She continues to instruct and mentor adult degree candidates in the UNH System at Granite State College.
While wolf recovery was the focus of her early work, Chris’ attention shifted to the eastern coyote when she moved to New England. She chose a farm with known coyote problems to raise sheep and train her border collies. Using sound livestock management and common sense, she has avoided any predation for over two decades.
Chris continues her work of the last 30 years and is now the New Hampshire and Vermont Representative for Project Coyote, a national group promoting coexistence with coyotes. She divides her time between teaching on the New Hampshire Seacoast, working on her book “Becoming Wolf: The Eastern Coyote in New England” and talking to groups on the eastern coyote and eastern wolf. Between presentations she can be found at camp in northern New Hampshire or living in heaven in Webster, N.H.
Beginning in the early 1990’s, Chris taught Conservation Issues and Wolf Ecology at the University of New Hampshire, receiving many teaching excellence and student recognition awards. She continues to instruct and mentor adult degree candidates in the UNH System at Granite State College.
While wolf recovery was the focus of her early work, Chris’ attention shifted to the eastern coyote when she moved to New England. She chose a farm with known coyote problems to raise sheep and train her border collies. Using sound livestock management and common sense, she has avoided any predation for over two decades.
Chris continues her work of the last 30 years and is now the New Hampshire and Vermont Representative for Project Coyote, a national group promoting coexistence with coyotes. She divides her time between teaching on the New Hampshire Seacoast, working on her book “Becoming Wolf: The Eastern Coyote in New England” and talking to groups on the eastern coyote and eastern wolf. Between presentations she can be found at camp in northern New Hampshire or living in heaven in Webster, N.H.
Bill Littlefield
Bill Littlefield has been the host of the syndicated National Public Radio sports show Only a Game since 1993. It’s only a game, the program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious perspectives of sports commentators and fans, Littlefield’s is perhaps the most realistic. It is certainly the most entertaining. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, Littlefield’s take on the games people play is as refreshing as it is enlightening. A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Bill continues to teach one course each semester at Curry College, Milton, MA where he also serves as writer-in-residence.
Bill’s most recent book is “Only A Game”, a collection of radio commentaries and magazine articles published by University of Nebraska Press in 2007. His other books include “Fall Classics” (Crown Press, 2003), a collection of the best writing about the World Series which he edited with Richard Johnson; “The Circus in the Woods” (Houghton Mifflin, 2002); “Prospect” (Houghton Mifflin, 1989; paperback, 2000); “Baseball Days” (Houghton Mifflin, 1993; paperback Pond Press, 2000); “Champions: The Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes” (Little, Brown, 1993; paperback, 1999); and “Keepers: Radio Stories from ‘Only A Game’ and Elsewhere” (Peninsula Press, 1999). He was the guest editor for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing in 1998.
Bill’s most recent book is “Only A Game”, a collection of radio commentaries and magazine articles published by University of Nebraska Press in 2007. His other books include “Fall Classics” (Crown Press, 2003), a collection of the best writing about the World Series which he edited with Richard Johnson; “The Circus in the Woods” (Houghton Mifflin, 2002); “Prospect” (Houghton Mifflin, 1989; paperback, 2000); “Baseball Days” (Houghton Mifflin, 1993; paperback Pond Press, 2000); “Champions: The Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes” (Little, Brown, 1993; paperback, 1999); and “Keepers: Radio Stories from ‘Only A Game’ and Elsewhere” (Peninsula Press, 1999). He was the guest editor for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing in 1998.
Mike Dickerman
Mike Dickerman is a longtime northern New Hampshire resident who was lured to the White Mountains region by its many foot trails and magnificent summits and lush valleys. After more than a decade of reporting on area events for the Littleton Courier newspaper, he started his own publishing company (Bondcliff Books) in 1996 and regularly writes, publishes and distributes books related to New Hampshire’s North Country and White Mountains. For more than 27 years, his popular hiking column, “The Beaten Path,” has appeared regularly in newspapers across the Granite State. He has authored or edited numerous books, including White Mountains Hiking History and Stories from the White Mountains, both published in 2013 by The History Press, along with The 4000-Footers of the White Mountains, Along the Beaten Path, Mount Washington: Narratives and Perspectives, and Lincoln & Woodstock, New Hampshire. He was also co-editor of the award-winning anthology,Beyond the Notches: Stories of Place in New Hampshire’s North Country, and served as co-editor of the 29th edition of the AMC White Mountain Guide. He lives in Littleton, N.H., with his wife, Jeanne.
