About Me
At my desk, 2005. Photograph by my granddaughter.
I was born in 1931 on a farm in the Midwest, where I learned the names of plants before I learned to read. I studied botany after military service, and taught it from 1962 until my retirement in 1997.
I am not an anthropologist, and I have never claimed to understand Vodou. I went to Haiti to identify plants. I came back with questions that were not botanical at all.
I live in a small town in Vermont with my wife, a large garden, and too many books. I still answer letters, slowly.
D.R.A.
Experiment 7
April 2, 1984. A trial of sample C, recorded on videotape. View the report and the recording
Recent changes
| 2009-03-03 | Added two photographs to the Photographs page, and a new page: Experiment 7. |
| 2007-11-12 | Corrected the dates of my second field season. |
| 2006-06-20 | Added a note at the end of The Narcisse Case. |
| 2004-09-08 | These pages are online. |
