THE LAST PRINT ISSUE:

The last print issue (expect it to be a collectible,hint, hint) of Backwoods Home magazine is now out. Read founder Dave Duffy’s profoundly moving goodbye editorial.

While it’s the end of an era, remember it’s not a death, it’s a transition: Backwoods Home will continue in digital format. A sign of the times, I guess.

The magazine’s redoubtable Lisa Nourse is to Backwoods Home what sergeants are to soldiers and cops: the person who supervises getting things done where the rubber meets the road. Lisa reminds me that I started writing for the magazine with the January 1995 issue.

It has been a long, fun run.

The Evil Princess, who had been a Backwoods Home reader before she and I met in the latter part of 2002, and I have been able to meet the whole Duffy family – and Lisa, and Jackie Clay, and Jeff Yago, and more – in person. Wonderful people, each and every one. It has been a joy meeting many of you readers in person over the years, as well.

Stay tuned. The digital edition continues as, of course, does this blog.