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Bruce Fellman

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 26, 2026
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Jul 24, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Photos by Bruce Fellman

    From the Ridge to Tinker Creek, and one pilgrim to another (opens the original)

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    When I got word last week that Annie Dillard, whose Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1974 account of her Thoreau-esque year in nature, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, had passed away at age 81 at her home on the Cape, I grabbed the well-thumbed book off its place of honor on my office’s library shelf and settled down, more than a couple of tears rolling down my face, to read, and re-read what I can only characterize as the author’s genuine and awe-inspiring wisdom. I first encountered Pilgrim not long after

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Photos by Bruce Fellman

    The Naturalist should be more wary on the wishing front (opens the original)

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    As Labor Day and, gulp, the solemn last-closings of the beach chariot tailgates both approach—don’t fret, bathing suit clad readers, there’s still a lot of summer left to enjoy—I had cause to invoke a time-tested aphorism from the annals of ancient wisdom. “Beware what you wish for,” a wise old storyteller, who wasn’t Mark Twain, once declared, “for you just might get it.” Actually, the 2500-plus-year-old quote, more or less, comes from Aesop, particularly the fable about the o

  3. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Photos by Bruce Fellman

    Walking the diversity trail without the help of AI (opens the original)

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    I was hoping that the grand opening of the panicled hydrangea show I talked about in the last edition of the Journal would keep a burgeoning raft of intrusive and, sadly enough, bleak news at bay, but it turned out that my flowering shrub display was itself a manifestation of unsettlement. Where has all the pollinator diversity gone? In the past, this particular hydrangea’s output of aromatic, small blossoms would have been magnets to a wide variety of pollen-dusted insects. Some were old frie

  4. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Photos by Bruce Fellman

    A fair and natural way to elevate spirits and stay balanced (opens the original)

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    Not only was I sent sprawling when I stepped into a sewer-grating crater that I hadn’t seen while I was racing across a busy New Haven thoroughfare after a long eye doctor’s appointment to try to catch the train—I’m fine, the street-scraped elbow that took the brunt of my clumsiness will certainly heal, and I miraculously just made the old 1634—but as I shuffled off awkwardly towards Union Station, a wet compress held over the wound, I realized that the afternoon sky had turned the unn

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