by David L. Witt | Mar 29, 2017 | Curator's Notes
One hundred and fifteen years ago today Ernest Thompson Seton nervously awaited the arrival forty-two boys to a clearing near his home of “Wyndygoul” in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. Some of them had vandalized his property. He wanted to offer...
by David L. Witt | Feb 28, 2017 | Arctic
My film: “Ernest Thompson Seton and the Exploration of Canada’s Fabled Aylmer Lake” will be shown at the Las Cruces International Film Festival on Saturday March 11 at 1:00pm. Subject: Seton’s 1907 Arctic expedition. A chronicle of my 2015 expedition to the lake will...
by David L. Witt | Jan 31, 2017 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
Dear Lobo, I have been writing these to you yearly, expressing appreciation for all your work in the world, even dating a new historical era from the date of your death, now that BC, AD, CE, etc. seem irrelevant. January 31 of the Environmental Era is a special day...
by David L. Witt | Dec 9, 2016 | Curator's Notes
Ernest Thompson Seton didn’t leave a published record of his political beliefs, although there are clues. He greatly admired Theodore Roosevelt (more than Roosevelt admired him as it turned out) but Seton was not a U.S. citizen during the period of TR’s political...
by David L. Witt | Sep 1, 2016 | Curator's Notes
In the first two volumes of Lives of Game Animals, Seton repeatedly returns to the theme of wildlife conservation, calling for preservation while at the same time doubting that his efforts can be successful. In the third volume, his strikingly gloomy essay “The...
