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Walking the Berkshires
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An ecclectic weaving of human narrative, natural history and conservation science with the Berkshire and Litchfield Hills and both the backdrop and point of departure.
- Added on: Jun 27th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Green History Society
- Tags: family genealogy current affairs natural history social history american history
Recent Posts
Tracks of my Tears
Tracks of My Tears (10/16/2006)Tonight the shadows of the trees are like gunmetal against the snow. His thoughts are brooding and dark, so unlike this moonlit woods where nothing murmurs and gnaws at its edges. It is almost warm in here without a br...
Testing the Ice
I delayed my drive to work this morning, one in a series of days when the the mercury has stayed below freezing. We had open water on our lakes and ponds during the last snow, which means that the first ice of the year will not have to be shoveled ...
Descant
"April is in my mistress face / And July in her eyes hath placeWithin her busom is September / But in her heart a cold December." - Thomas Morley (159...
"This Old House is Falling Down Around My Ears"
We tend to think of tarring and feathering as the quintessential mob action in Revolutionary America. Actually, the Sons of Liberty - or as the Royalists sometimes referred to them, the "Sons of Violence" - were more likely to target the ...
My Latest Nature Notes in the LJ
The December 10th edition of the Lakeville Journal ran my biweekly Nature Notes column, readable here in full with free subscription. Fair use excerpt:"Now, as we shrug off the last warm days of autumn and feel the frosty ground firm beneat...
Seeing Yellow
I am really glad my job isn't to manage this public relations disaster for the Borough Of Litchfield, Connecticut and its Board of Warden and Burgesses. Fair use excerpt from Rinker Buck's column in the Hartford Courant: &quo...
