August Derleth, a versatile and prolific author, combined a deep and abiding love of nature with a respect and reverence for his Germanic roots and his Wisconsin heritage. During the course of a career which began at age fifteen, when he sold his first s...

STREETCAR Whippoorwills have a lonely cry. 1 know because Hank Williams said so. In his ballad "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," the bird's mournfulness is linked to the equally lonesome sound of the old freight train - a lyric I think of whenever...

The whippoorwills used to drive me mad at night. Or lull me to sleep. I can't remember anything in between, it was so long ago. In bed I heard them repeat their name over and over in the dark, relentlessly, one phrase: Whip-poor-will. Whip-poor-will....