Susan Hand Shetterly

Watching the lives of birds can bring joy—and community—in a time when we need it most.

For a group of Down East neighbors, the goal was simple: to buy wild shoreland to protect it from developers. They could not guess what bigger changes their good intentions would bring.

You’ll Discover the Special Sounds of Winter Winter begins with a decisive snow. Spinning only a little, the flakes fall fast, big and feathery, and with no more sound than that of a small child’s sigh in sleep. They cover the ground and keep on falling, muting the last rough cacophony of autumn. The chipmunk […]

Yankee Classic from April 1999 by Susan Shetterly The Gulf of Maine narrows at the south of the Bay of Fundy, separating Maine from Nova Scotia and stretching, like the head of a herring gull with its bill slightly open, up into New Brunswick. For six of every 12 hours, tides expose miles of rock […]