"Sharp, quirky, and occasionally nettlesome", Walking the Berkshires is my personal blog, an eclectic weaving of human narrative, natural history, and conservation science with the Berkshire and Litchfield Hills as both its backdrop and point of departure. I am interested in how land and people, past and present manifest in the broader landscape and social fabric of our communities. The opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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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 beneath...
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:
"For
the...
It is very wet, almost slush before it hits the ground, but it sticks and will stay and by morning we may have four to six inches of it. My children did not wait for it to accumulate but were outside making snow people out of virtually nothing. At...
Alert reader Terry Cowgill, himself a fine journalist, observes this embarrassing correction by the Washington Post:A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly
said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to...
I've been watching the DVDs of Ken Burn's latest documentary: The National Parks; America's Best Idea. Burns and collaborator Dayton Duncan have brought their cinematic eye and art to the American wilderness, illuminating places such as the Grand...
