Between fall of 1993 and spring of 1995, I wrote a weekly natural history column for The Flat Hat, the student newspaper at the College of William and Mary. Every week the paper would publish my breathless expositions of various aspects of wildlife and nature that could be found in and around the university town of Williamsburg. I recently decided to archive these articles on-line. Each column includes the original illustration that accompanied it when first published in The Flat Hat, scanned from the original yellowed newsprint. In addition, I like the flavor provided by the original headlines, which are fairly campy. Without exception, they were conjured by Flat Hat staffers at ~3:30am on the Thursday night / Friday morning before we went to press. As a consequence of their authors' exhaustion, the headlines tend to be a bit melodramatic.
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