Matthew Dickerson
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Matthew Dickerson: Fishing on thin ice
Even before stepping out onto the ice of Bryant Pond 30 minutes before dawn on New Year’s Day, I could tell it was going to be an unusual…
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Matthew Dickerson: What fish taught me in 2022
It’s probably not accurate to say that fish taught me anything. Numerous fishing outings on which I failed to interact with any actual fish is evidence that I…
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Matthew Dickerson: Brutality, gentleness, nature and Advent
The natural world can be brutal.
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Matthew Dickerson: A reflection on writing and place
When it comes to films and works of fiction, we often think in terms of character development. Did the main characters change? If so, how and why? We…
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Matthew Dickerson: With an uncle on the family farm
I sat on a wide chair atop a tall ladder, leaning against a pine tree with a mature oak growing around the back side of the tree, its…
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Matthew Dickerson: Clouds clear off Ascutney
This was our seventh new Vermont state park of 2022 — far and away the most Vermont state parks to which we have made a first-time visit in…
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Matthew Dickerson: Salt chucks & silver salmon: Alaska, part 2
So what exactly is a salt chuck? That was one of the questions I had when I arrived at Ernest Gruening State Historic Park.
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Matthew Dickerson: Of rain and glaciers: An Alaskan residency, part 1
The history of the place was inspiring, and I soaked in as much as I could. But it was the surrounding scenery and landscape that moved me the…
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Matthew Dickerson: Rainbow trout out of the pockets
I’d only been out on the river once all month. So after dinner, when the river calls my name, I heed the call.
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Matthew Dickerson: Three Southern Vt. state parks in one day
My wife and I are trying to visit all of Vermont’s state parks together. Recently we made a southern swing through the state.
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Matthew Dickerson: Sockeye tipping: Abundance, resilience and diversity, Part 2
A lone sockeye salmon sits in the stream in front of me under a low canopy of alder. The stream is wide, gravelly and shallow: only two to…
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Matthew Dickerson: Sockeye in the Wood River system: Abundance, resilience, diversity; Part 1
For five days and nights I resided in a shoreline cabin partway up the Wood River system in Alaska’s Wood-Tikchik State Park. Officially, I was serving as artist-in-residence…
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Matthew Dickerson: On Alaska, fishing and wilderness fires
On July 4, as many of us watched fireworks, the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center gave a list of 424 wildfires being tracked in Alaska — all “active, smoldering,…
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Matthew Dickerson: Three strikes, no photos and the mysterious bowfin
Vermont’s Arrowhead Mountain Lake is the only place I have ever caught a bowfin.
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Matthew Dickerson: Getting out again: Groton State Forest
It covers 26,164 acres, and it borders or contains eight lakes or ponds big enough to canoe. According to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, that makes Groton…
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Matthew Dickerson: Of baby bison, brown trout, cutthroats and Cody
We were still within sight of the boat launch where we began our six-mile float down the Shoshone River in Cody, Wyoming.