Come to the Island of Science Writing!

This August I will be teaching a week-long writing course on Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine. Last year, the first time around, we had a blast, embarking on an Ahab-like quest for hagfish, observing the role played by mind-controlling parasites in the ecology of the island's tidal zone, learning how to use broken 300-year-old pipe stems and cod ear bones to reconstruct American's first economic boom, and much more. (Here are some articles the students wrote about their experiences.)

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