We are just back from a week on the remote Maine island of Isle au Haut, a place of rocky coasts, craggy woods, and lobster boats. It was exhilarating to get away to a place of such untainted beauty ...

I am an amateur wild mushroom hunter. These days I have little if any spare time for wandering around in the woods in the summertime looking for mushrooms. So my mushroom hunting is mostly confined to ...