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Newsletters / #019 In Case You Missed It

Cold.

January 2022

  • John O’Connor

    Everything Gets Worse: An Antarctica Story

    In winter of 1912, as Robert Falcon Scott was striving to be the first to reach the South Pole, six of his men became stranded for 17 months. In this story that ranges from north to south and from past to present, John O’Connor chronicles the group’s efforts to remain not only alive but sane at “Inexpressible Island,” a 9′ x 12’ enclosure they hacked out of the ice, where they remained through the long months of winter darkness.

    True Story, Issue #32

  • Geoffrey Melada

    In the Midst of Winter

    "Resilience" is the new buzzword, but are there traumas too difficult to overcome?

    Issue 67

  • Tim Bascom

    My First Baptist Winter

    For a recently transplanted son of missionaries, snowy Kansas seems impossibly far from the sunny biblical lands

    Issue 58

  • Beatrice Lazarus

    The Snow

    Lost in a surprise blizzard, a young woman trusts a mysterious stranger

    Issue 58

  • Joe Fassler

    The Power of Something Greater Than Yourself: An Interview with Al Roker

    America's weatherman on his accidental television career; why we’re so addicted to watching news coverage of weather events; and the satisfactions of writing books

    Issue 58

  • Sherry Simpson

    Killing Wolves

    The trapper struggles to hold on to something that seems almost as elusive as the wolves they pursue: the chance to make a life out of wilderness

    Issue 07 / Issue 24/25 / In Fact / On Nature

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