Because of Roger Tory Peterson, we became watchers not just of birds, we also became watchers – and more importantly, protectors – of every form of life on our planet.
Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”