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Ethan Warren
Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair
“I once again reach for these stories, and remember that we exist in a chain of forces that must be—and can be—respected.”
By
Ethan Warren
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Why
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Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos
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Ethan Warren
| January 20, 2023
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Badlands
Than it Might Seem
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Ethan Warren
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