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Because one of the feathery pleasures of a birding trip is to escape from current events, many such pilgrims had to return to civilization before hearing the news: Roger Tory Peterson, the world's most famous birder and the man who single-handedly opened up ornithology to the masses, had died...
...many families," author William Zinsser wrote two years ago, "looking something up in Peterson is as habitual as looking something up in Webster." The analogy is apt. Peterson provided a visual vocabulary so useful and influential that it is hard to imagine how people ever looked at nature without...
...breakthrough occurred in 1934 with the publication of A Field Guide to the Birds, which covered all the species found in the Eastern U.S. The book, which had been suggested to him by the first editor of Audubon magazine, combined two passions that Peterson had developed during his somewhat dreamy and, in the view of his no-nonsense father, lackadaisical childhood in Jamestown, New York: looking at birds and painting pictures. Since he lacked any formal ornithological training, Peterson brought to his project a refreshing dose of common sense. People could not lug folios of Audubon reproductions to where...
...path that led to Carnegie Hall started off in the Vancouver suburb of Nainamo, British Columbia, where Krall was born 30 years ago. Canada might not be New Orleans, but its native jazz greats include Oscar Peterson and Gil Evans. Nevertheless, Krall sought her muse south of the border. While still in her teens she left home to study jazz piano at Boston's Berkelee school, then moved on to Los Angeles, where she befriended the great bassist Ray Brown, a veteran of Peterson's band. Brown taught her the Zen of swing--"You just feel it, " she says. "They...
Other Key Players: Brian Younger '98, Eric Matuszak '98, Alex Kurmakov '99, Greg Wriede '99, Scott Peterson...