This is the first published account of the lives and times of the young men who gathered field data in New York State’s thirteen-year ruffled grouse investigation. In these pages we meet the Hillers, those who did the fieldwork in Connecticut Hill, near Ithaca. Most of them were undergraduates at Cornell University, and the money they earned by working on the Hill made it possible for them to remain in school. Voices from Connecticut Hill is also a story of American and Americans in the 1930s and early 1940s. It is a story of people who strove, with good humor and a positive outlook, to improve their lot during the Great Depression, then faced the harsh realities of World War II, and returned to their stewardship as leaders.