{"product_id":"9781936411368","title":"Mill Pond Joe: Naturalist, Writer, Journalist, and NY Times Columnist","description":"When Nelson Bryant was managing editor of the Claremont,\u003cbr\u003eN.H. \u003ci\u003eDaily Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e he enlivened his telling of bedtime stories to his two young sons with the adventures of a Martha's Vineyard\u003cbr\u003eIsland youngster he called, \"Mill Pond Joe.\"\u003cp\u003e\"I was Mill Pond Joe, and my yarns were based on actual events during my boyhood. I spent fifteen years as managing editor of the \u003ci\u003eDaily Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e and devoted another thirty to writing an outdoors column for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryant began writing the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e Wood, Field and Stream column-later called Outdoors-in 1967, and continued to do so until 1998. Born in 1923, he moved with his parents to West\u003cbr\u003eTisbury on the Vineyard in 1932. A dedicated environmentalist,\u003cbr\u003ehe writes with passion, sensitivity, and humor about the natural world; its flora, its fauna, its human inhabitants, and their hunting and fishing rituals. Currently living on the Vineyard, he has traveled widely gathering material for his pieces in the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly before his 90th year he decided to chronicle Mill Pond\u003cbr\u003eJoe's adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YBK Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039648727280,"sku":"9781936411368","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936411368_p0.jpg?v=1763659054","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936411368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}