Category Nature
Flooding impacts homeowners & University of Iowa
I’m at the University of Iowa for the annual board meeting of Quill and Scroll, the International Honor Society for High School Journalists. Before the meeting started, I had time to run on Edgewater Drive (in Coralville just outside of Iowa City), which is downhill from the hotel where the board members are staying. As […]
Hiking inspiration: Margaret Stevenson was a regular on the trails to Mt. Le Conte
Margaret Stevenson hiked to Mt. Le Conte 718 times. Most of those trips were day hikes, with her hiking up and down (at least 11 miles). She was the first woman to hike all 900 miles of trails in the Smokies — which she completed when she was 64. In my hikes to Mt. Le […]
Atop Mt. Le Conte
A “highlight” of the year for me is hiking to Mt. Le Conte, the third highest peak in the Smokies. The only way to get to Mt. Le Conte is hiking one of five trails. My favorite is the Alum Cave Trail, about five miles (up, up, up). This was a view at sunset. Not […]
One source can = many story ideas
After spending the afternoon with Mickie MacKenzie when she was a speaker in my classes, I was ready to grab my reporter’s notebook and iPod (with microphone) and go cover some of the stories she talked about. “The story” that she was in class to talk about was the Great American Cleanup event for Alachua […]
Julie Dodd 