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Bradley Dean has become well-known for editing the previously unpublished works of Thoreau. His latest book is Letters to a Spiritual Seeker. It is made up of the letters that Thoreau exchanged with his friend Harrison Blake. They document the last 13 years of Thoreau?s life and his evolution as a writer and thinker.

Jeffrey Zygmont is a technology writer from Salem, New Hampshire and author of Microchip. It?s the story of the invention and development of the microchip- the breakthrough that made possible the information revolution and the modern American lifestyle. Today, chips can be found in everything from toys, to toasters, to cars and trucks.

This interview originally aired in the Spring of 2003.

The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead. Beatrice Trum Hunter may not have coined that phrase, but she'd certainly agree with it. Long before Diet For a Small Planetand the Moosewood cookbooks, she was writing about food safety and nutrition. Her first book, The Natural Foods Cookbook, was published in 1961 and she's published over 20 since. Beatrice promotes natural, unprocessed foods above all else- think butter, not margarine, and stay away from the white flour and sugar.

She was also an early activist against pesticides and helped Rachel Carson with research for Silent Spring.

Beatrice was also the daughter-in-law of the famous photographer, Lotte Jacobi. She met Lotte's son, John Hunter, in New York City during World War Two. All three of them moved to a parcel of countryside in Deering NH in 1955 and she's lived there ever since. These days she's still writing, helping organize the Jacobi archives at UNH, and she's taken up photography. Her pictures of ice crystals have been shown at many of the state's leading galleries.

This interview originally aired last spring.

Management consultant Jack Lecza of Bristol was one of the residents in PBS' Colonial House series which first aired in May of 2004. He tells John Walters about some of the lessons learned from the 17th century that can be applied to the 21st century. PBS is reairing the program this Sunday and next.

Frank Reinhold, the owner of Flag Hill Winery and Distillery says growing grapes is easy; making wines is tricky. The company, located in Lee, now produces vodka made from apples. Frank tells host John Walters why that decision makes a lot of sense from a business AND taste standpoint.