Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?
By Dave Duffy
Issue #102 • November/December, 2006
History is supposed to teach us the lessons of wars past so we won't blunder into stupid wars in the present. Since I have mixed feelings about our...
Reaching for the stars during a recession
By Dave Duffy
Issue #125 • September/October, 2010
Toby is the volunteer assistant golf coach for the team this magazine sponsors, the Gold Beach High School Panthers. He has spent hundreds of hours of his own...
History of Backwoods Home Magazine
The second generation takes over
By Dave Duffy
Originally published in issue 200 of BHM, the April/May/June 2025 issue
This is the second time I’ve written the history of Backwoods Home Magazine (BHM). The first was 16...
Looking back on 20 years of BHM
It all began when I built that cabin
By Dave Duffy
Originally published in the November/December 2009 issue of BHM
I was freezing when I slipped into my old down-filled Army sleeping bag. But I was used...
