The latest issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest will be hitting mailboxes in the next week or so, and our subscribers might notice something different about the cover… something bright, something bold, something more expressionistic than our readers are used to. We would like to introduce our newest cover artist, Christina Baal, and her cover of […]
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In 1978, I worked at the printing company that printed the very first issue of BWD. The printing process has changed so much in the 42 years since I made the printing plates for issue #1. Back then the type was set and pasted up on artboards. Getting everything to line up and be as
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Imagine giving up your job, your benefits (including funds for your children’s college education), and mortgaging everything you own to start your own business. That’s what Bill Thompson, Jr., and Elsa Thompson did 40 years ago when they decided to start a magazine for bird watchers. The Thompsons moved back from Iowa to the Marietta,
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