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Will Yandik

Will Yandik is an environmentalist and writer in Hudson, N.Y.

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Brooklyn in Bloom

by Will Yandik | Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Twain Abroad

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013
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If Music Be the Food of Love, Rock On

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013
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“… to Muddy Death”

by Will Yandik | Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Scientists Warm Up to Thoreau

by Will Yandik | Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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2nd Look

A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”