Joseph Monninger (born October 28, 1953) is an American writer and Professor of English at Plymouth State University. Read full biography of Joseph Monninger →
I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it... →
As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once... →
Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit... →
I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or... →
I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and... →
I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I... →
Joseph Monninger (born October 28, 1953) is an American writer and Professor of English at Plymouth State University.