Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth...
But John Kieran, 67, used the 50 springs well; sportswriter, naturalist and radio fountain of knowledge (Information Please), he was born, raised and schooled in The Bronx (Fordham, cum laude, 1912), all told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature...
Fragile Persistence. Kieran's nature walks have centered on Van Cortlandt Park and the Hudson's shore near Spuyten Duyvil, but he did not stick to the man-made nature spots of parks and reserves. Through the asphalt of a parking lot, Kieran has seen emerge the fragile...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself...
At 16 she ran away with the most attractive young poet of the day, heir to a baronetcy and already married and a father. At 19 she wrote one of the great horror stories of all time, Frankenstein. For eight years the young couple-married after the suicide of the...