While the Mexican chapter was building bridges on the peninsula, the U.S. chapter was engaged in raising funds, getting the wetlands mapped and spreading the word about pro esteros in the U.S. Our board was outstanding, starting mostly with Silvia’s… Read morepro esteros-3rd Installment
By 1988 I had already become quite familiar with Baja California, particularly the northern state where we had been monitoring Least Terns and Light-footed Clapper Rails in the coastal marshes. But probably an overview would be helpful here as the… Read morepro esteros-2nd Installment
5/2014 5/3 After finishing ‘The Goldfinch’, wonderful fiction, I got into biographies and started the new year with Humphrey Burton’s ‘Leonard Bernstein”. This densely written 700 pager was a heavy one to prop up in bed, but is not in… Read moreCurrent Thoughts and Events – May 2014
Chicago to California in 1955 The first 10 years of our marriage were spent in Boston, Syracuse and Chicago. (We didn’t know it but we were inching towards the far west. And once we got there we never left.) In… Read morePersonal History-6th post: Chicago to California
It all started when I arrived at Estero de Punta Banda (the saltmarsh just south of ensenads in Baja California) in March to do a bird census, and found a housing development underway on the barrier beach. For the 12… Read morepro esteros-1st Installment
Another of Eric’s letters to a son-in-law, this one to Bob Bernhardt. In 1993 Pro Esteros was 5 years old and Laura and Patricia Martinez (sisters) were in charge and doing a wonderful job. We had an annual meeting in… Read morepro esteros-Eric’s letter regarding an annual meeting in Ensenada
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Post 5-Chicago Our 6 years in Chicago was a very mixed bag. For Eric it was a dark period and almost swamped him. He arrived with a BA from Columbia and an MA from Harvard but all his Ivy… Read morePersonal History-5th post: Chicago
We arrived in Syracuse in September 1947 and were sent to a big old 3-story Victorian close to campus which had about 9 rooms, a communal bathroom on the 2nd floor and a largish kitchen. It had been a dorm… Read morePersonal History-4th post: Syracuse
3rd post. First years of marriage With the war over, Eric started immediately to think of the future. He knew he wanted to go to graduate school, and either in English, which was his major in college, or Philosophy, which… Read morePersonal History-3rd post: marriage
