Background
Mitchell, John Hanson was born on April 25, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of James Archibald and Virginia Delano (Powers) Mitchell.
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
(“Ceremonial time” occurs when past, present, and future c...)
“Ceremonial time” occurs when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ritual dance, this escape from linear time is the vehicle for John Mitchell’s extraordinary writing. In this, his most magical book, he traces the life of a single square mile in New England, from the last ice age through years of human history, including bear shamans, colonists, witches, local farmers, and encroaching industrial “parks.”
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Living at the end of time
(In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John ...)
In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John Hanson Mitchell tells how he set out to recreate Henry David Thoreau’s two years at Walden Pond in a replica of Thoreau’s cabin. Mitchell lived off the grid, without running water or electricity, in a tiny house not half a mile from a major highway and in the shadow of a massive new computer company. Nevertheless, his contact with wildlife, the changing seasons, and the natural world equaled and even surpassed Thoreau’s. Hugely popular with the international community of Thoreau followers when it was first published, this book will now be essential reading for the growing community of people who are interested in living in a tiny house, fully experiencing the natural world, or finding self-sufficiency in an increasingly plugged-in society.
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Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land
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Trespassing, “a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature” (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild land controlled periodically by various Native American tribes became British crown land after 1654, then private property under US law, and finally common land again in the late twentieth century. Mitchell considers every aspect of the important issue of land ownership and explores how our attitudes toward land have changed over the centuries.
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile CEREMONIAL TIME Paperback
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile 1st edition by Mitchell, John Hanson (1997) Paperback
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Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place by Mitchell, John H. (1997) Paperback
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Field Guide to Your Own Backyard
( A wise and poetic field guide to the lives, habits, and...)
A wise and poetic field guide to the lives, habits, and quirks of the natural world awaiting just beyond your doorstep . "If there is grass and a few scraggling trees, there will be wildlife," suggests John Hanson Mitchell, an internationally recognized naturalist and advocate for tuning your senses to the wonders that await in your own backyard. Whether your yard consists of a small patch of grass or a rambling mix of forest and field, Mitchell will introduce you to the wealth of plants, insects, and animals that share your patch of the planet. You'll learn how the behavior at the birdfeeder mirrors that of the deepest woods. You'll get a gander at the rich ecology of the woodpile. You'll get to know the neighbors you never knew you had who make their homes under the bark and in the holes of the trees. You'll learn why you might want to welcome a skunk into your garden. With wisdom and gentle humor, this book reacquaints you with the denizens of your own local habitat. 53 black & white illustrations
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Field Guide to Your Own Backyard 1st edition by Mitchell, John Hanson (1985) Hardcover
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile Paperback August 6, 2013
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Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
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Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters. Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a group of friends undertake a walking tour and discuss a certain subject, this wide-ranging story emerges from the author’s fifteen-mile bushwhack through woods, backyards, and marshes—from a hilltop in Westford, Massachusetts, to the town of Concord, Massachusetts—trespassing all along the way. A mock epic, complete with encounters with armed mercenaries and vicious dogs, the book covers all the aspects of place—art, literature, myth, and even music.
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John Hanson Mitchell
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, Fitchburg University, Massachusetts, 1988.
Career
Executive director Environmental Centers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1967-1970. Freelance writer, 1970-1973. Assistant editor Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, 1973-1980, editor Sanctuary Magazine, from 1980.
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Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land
(Trespassing, “a thoughtful, beautifully written addition ...)
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Living at the end of time
(In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John ...)
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Field Guide to Your Own Backyard
( A wise and poetic field guide to the lives, habits, and...)
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Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
(Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the sense of ...)
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
(“Ceremonial time” occurs when past, present, and future c...)
- Walking Towards Walden A Pilgrimage in Search of Place. Drawings by Robert Leverett
- Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile CEREMONIAL TIME Paperback
- Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years
- Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile 1st edition by Mitchell, John Hanson (1997) Paperback
- Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place by Mitchell, John H. (1997) Paperback
- Field Guide to Your Own Backyard 1st edition by Mitchell, John Hanson (1985) Hardcover
- Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile Paperback August 6, 2013
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Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land
Membership
Member advisory board Aqualog Northeast Aquarium, Boston, 1975-1978, Vineyard Conservation Trust, Tisbury, Massachusetts, 1972-1973, Monadnock Center for Place, Rindge, New Hampshire, 1997.
Connections
Married Margaret Street (divorced September 1992). Children: Clayton Jackson, Lelia Harrison. Married Jill Singapore Brown, June, 1996.
