Naturalist, author, radio show host, newspaper columnist and decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot veteran Capt. (U.S. Army) David L. Eastman, 76, of Tamworth, N.H., passed on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, in Concord, N.H.
Eastman’s well-read nature column, “Country Ecology,” was published in the Saturday editions of The Conway Daily Sun and his nature radio show of the same name was broadcast several times weekly on local radio station WMWV 93.5-FM.
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