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Article: What I would do if I found myself "Naked in the Woods".(COMMENTARY)(essay contest)
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- Our Planet
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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Two entries in our "Naked in the Woods" contest stood out, and they are presented here in full. Naked in the Woods is the title of E Editor Jim Motavalli's new book, which tells the true story of Joseph Knowles, who went alone and naked into the Maine woods in 1913 as a publicity stunt for the Boston Post newspaper. Contestants Genevieve Jenkins and Marc Warren both win copies of the book and online publishing fame.
On an oddly warm morning, I found myself naked in the woods. It was the type of day that rushes in just before spring, that blusters in the tops of trees, shaking budding limbs, threatening to wrestle birch bark from trunks. The air was warm, wet with ...