Matt Corradino
Profession: Wilderness Survival Instructor
Matt grew up in Norfolk, Virginia as a typical suburban/city kid. Family camping trips sparked a deeper interest in nature, which grew through the years.
As a young adult, a chance meeting with a childhood friend resulted in him acquiring a book by Tom Brown Jr. and, during his few years of homeless wandering, the seed planted by that book and others became fertilized. After taking a class at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School, Matt made primitive survival his life’s focus. During his almost 7 years as a full-time instructor, he met his wife and the two of them lived year-round in a primitive shelter while teaching in the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, encompassing all aspects of survival.
Updated 3/16/2021 5:45 AM
Before Christmas 1979, DuPage County lawyer Ron Nosek picked up the book his wife, Sue, bought as a present for another relative. The Tracker, by Tom Brown Jr., tells how a boy growing up in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey learned to live comfortably in the natural world from an elderly man who went by the name Stalking Wolf, says Nosek, who couldn t put the book down.
As a kid growing up in Berwyn, Nosek had spent a lot of time outside and was intrigued by the ability to exist in the natural world and get by only with what nature provided.
By Eugene Holley Jr. | Feb 17, 2021
From cofounding the iconoclastic jazz and bluegrass band Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to the futuristic funk-rock of his 15 recordings as a band leader, Victor L. Wooten is one of the most dynamic and eclectic musicians of his generation. Wooten’s new book,
The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues, which will be published by Vintage Books this month, is an idiosyncratic, sometimes contradictory, lament about the decline of live music in contemporary life and the insidious impact of electronic devices on our collective ability to fully experience the power of music.
This unusual book takes the form of an allegorical memoir-fable featuring Wooten and three musicians of widely differing musical backgrounds who have been mysteriously transported to Nashville to prevent the phasers a shadowy group who wear special headphones that cancel any music in the surrounding area from killing music all over the world.