Photo: Lori Hawkins

Biddle Duke

I write about people and places, about ideas, food, nature, art, family, and friendship, and every once in a while I’ll sound an alarm or two about the trouble we’re in. Because, in case you’re not paying attention, the world is in peril.

I was drawn to journalism because I was raised to believe it’s a public service. My reporting and editing career spanned newspapers in four states (New York, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Vermont) and Argentina, where I was the editor in the mid 90s of the English-language daily, The Buenos Aires Herald. In 1998, I became the publisher of the weekly in Stowe, Vermont, and since then, with a partner and a terrific team, we've expanded the company to six weeklies and two magazines. In 2016, with the owners of a newspaper company in East Hampton, N.Y., I launched EAST magazine, whose four issues a year celebrate the soul — history, environment, food, culture, art, politics — of the Eastern-most tip of Long Island.

A speaker-series and event organizer, story telling and advocacy are my core passions, along with surf and ski-mountaineering travel, family, friends, and my four-legged companion Ralphie. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker online, The New York Times, Ski Racing, The Stowe Reporter, Vermont Ski and Ride, The Surfers Journal,  Backcountry magazine, The East Hampton Star, and several other regional publications. Although basically a lifelong nomad, I live in Springs, N.Y. with my wife, an artist, Idoline (idolineduke.com).