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As seen in: Laura Erickson's For the Birds, Laura Erickson's For the Birds (Podcast), Substack, Popular Science, Audubon, Southern Living Magazine, Hachette Book Group (HBG), Duluth News Tribune, Greenwich Time, Living Bird Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, KHQ-TV (Spokane, WA) and
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You CAN Go Home Again

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By Laura Erickson
| Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Some wonderful places change enormously over decades, yet still feel like home. (Listen to the radio version here when I record it later today.) I used to find Thomas Wolfe’s words “you can’t go home again” comforting. My childhood home was violent and scary—I’d never want to go back there. Last year when Russ and I returned to Michigan State University so I could see a Black-capped Chickadee where I’d seen my first precisely 50 years before, we checked out all the apartments where we’d lived.
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Green Green Grass of Home

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By Laura Erickson
| Laura Erickson's For the Birds
(Listen to the radio version here.) I grew up in a blue-collar suburb of Chicago developed specifically to provide housing for blue collar workers, especially at Automatic Electric, a ginormous factory that manufactured telephones and switchboards sold throughout the world. Automatic Electric had moved to Northlake from Chicago in 1957 after building one of the largest single-story buildings in the United States on a 35-acre site.
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Responsible, Collaborative Governance in Greenwich

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By Matt DesChamps, Laura Erickson, Doug Fenton, Elliot Alchek, Gregory Stroud Verified
| The Connecticut Examiner Verified
Dear Neighbors, Friends, and Fellow Residents of Greenwich, Tuesday night, the voters of Greenwich chose a return to responsible, cooperative, and fact-based governance on the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET). We are pleased to have earned the BET chairmanship. To everyone who cast a ballot for our team—and for the future of our town—thank you! Your support reflects community values and a desire for responsive leadership and sound fiscal management.
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