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2015 Essay Contest Announced
Guy and Laura Waterman spent a lifetime reflecting and writing on the Northeast’s mountains. The Waterman Fund seeks to further their legacy of stewardship through essays that celebrate and explore issues of wilderness, wildness, and humans through the Fund’s annual essay contest. In conjunction with the Museum of the White Mountains’ exhibit on Woman and…
Read MoreWaterman Fund awards winners in 2014 essay contest
The Waterman Fund is delighted to announce the winners of its sixth annual Alpine Essay Contest. The Fund received over thirty entries this year and through much thoughtful reading and fruitful discussion, the Fund’s reading committee selected Jenny Wagner’s essay, “The Cage Canyon,” as this year’s winner. Nancy Rich’s essay “Walking with Our Faces to…
Read MoreNancy Slack Receives Guy Waterman Alpine Steward Award
Please join The Waterman Fund for its annual dinner and the presentation of the 2014 Guy Waterman Alpine Steward Award to Nancy G. Slack, recognizing her for many years of dedication to the alpine zone through both her research and published works. The event will be held at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highland Center in Bretton…
Read More2nd Annual Waterman Fund field trip
Fifteen Waterman Fund supporters and Board members converged on Mount Washington for the second annual Waterman Fund Field trip on July 25. The group stopped midway to hike into the Alpine Garden, examining fragile alpine flora under the guidance of Board Member Jean Hoekwater and long-time supporter Iris Baird. Shortly we ascended into the clouds, for…
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