Word: woodsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birch chunks out to lighten the truck, then jacks, wedges, winches and ponders. At last Linda groans free, and all that remains is to retrieve the half cord of jettisoned birch. There is never a thought of leaving the firewood behind: in darkest February, it will heat the woodsman's ten-room New Hampshire house for a week...
Despite the somewhat submerged running conditions, the Dartmouth team managed to shine. Woodsman top gun Dean Stevens led in the troops, marking time near the finish line so teammates Sean Sioban, Adam Switchenko, and Arthur Jensen could catch up with him. all for the greater glory of the Big Green...
...outstanding Woodsman finish was caused as much by a brilliant strategy ploy as it was by dogged and consistent running. Just after the mile mark, when things looked bright and rosy for the Crimson--Eichner and Sheehan were in the lead, and the rest of the team was doing well--four of the Dartmouth runners suddenly made a move and surged far ahead...
...Hanover hosts' thirst for runs was not quenched and they returned for two more in the third inning. Stewart was victimized for the two scores after a couple of walks and a base hit. Steve Baloff relieved Stewart and surrendered a single but a Woodsman was chopped down at the plate to end the inning...
When Henry D. Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax one year in protest of the Mexican-American War, he was thrown in jail for the night. Built around the hard fact of the great woodsman's musings to the vagrant who shares his cell, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail expands into a full picture of the man more accurate, perhaps, than the picture he gives of himself in Walden. Though the other characters in Thoreau's life, included in flashbacks, help integrate the pieces of his philosophy into the play, the strength of the Kirkland House production should...