Word: woodsmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization has put together slide shows with accompanying texts that contrast spoiled and unspoiled nature. They rent for $2, plus postage and insurance, to a growing audience of garden clubs, schools, Boy Scout groups, Audubon societies and climbing clubs. GOMA also sends out a monthly newsletter plumping for proper woodsmanship, makes members pledge to spread the word personally wherever they go. Highlight of the year, however, comes when GOMA, after soliciting candidates from all across the nation, makes its annual Booster and Buster awards for the best and worst examples of outdoor manners...
...also similarities in the way they live. Lee lives and writes at his home outside Croton, N.Y., only a few miles from Cheever's home at Ossining. He cleared five acres of woodland, wearing out five axes in the process, and built much of the house himself. Woodsmanship is a skill that Cheever and Lee share, and it reached a danger point on one neighborly occasion at the Lee place, when the two held a woodcutting contest after a fine lunch, Lee with an ax and Cheever with a chain saw. In the heat of the competition, the axman...