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by Paul Haeder / February 18th, 2021 If I were asked what I want to accomplish as a writer, I would say it’s to contribute to the literature of hope. — Barry Lopez, A passing. A death. Moving on. Back to earth. A new journey. He filled the air with lyrical words and ideas grafted to our role as writers and people living inside and with our natural world. He was steadfast in his role as a naturalist of sorts, but through and through he was a word conjurer. He came to me when I was young, inside his book about wolves. I was in Arizona jumping the skeletons of saguaros with my 360cc Bultaco...

New Mad River Distillers Rye Whiskey Finished in Silver Oak Red Wine Barrels New Mad River Distillers Rye Whiskey Finished in Silver Oak Red Wine Barrels Vermont’s Mad River Distillers recently announced a collaboration with CaskForce, a Boston-based retailer that curates cask- finished whiskey, to create a new limited release rye whiskey that has been finished in red wine barrels. The team up began two years ago when Caskforce founder Nick O’Connell hit upon the idea of filling toasted American oak barrels that once housed cabernet sauvignon from Napa Valley winery Silver Oak Cellars w...