The Hoosic River Watershed Association and Williamstown Rural Lands are celebrating the Northern Berkshires in creative collaborations — original songs and poems and a new writing journal with Tupelo Press.
Read article
Reimagining the Hoosic River — community weighs in
The Hoosic River faces challenges to a healthy flow of water for the plants and animals and people who live along it, and local nonprofits and volunteers are talking about the future — as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opens a study that has taken years to secure.
Read article
Spring wildflowers and baby animals emerge — #Berkshireweekend
The bloodroot are back. I just went down to one of the closest places I know to look for them, out on the trail along the western bank of the Hoosic River.
Read article
Hot coffee and the swish of leaves — #Berkshireweekend
Where the Hoosic River and the Green River meet, the late maples are gold and sifting down along the bank. You can walk through them ankle deep and stir up the mild sweet mushroom scent.
Read article
How to meet a mountain in the rain (August 25 newsletter)
You can see 90 miles from here on a clear day. We can see about 30 feet across the meadow. Up here on the summit of Mount Greylock at the end of a storm, we’re islanded in cloud.
Read article
A brilliance of buttercups
I went for a walk along the Green River yesterday. The Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation keeps a trail along the bank not far from where I live, running up to the meeting of the Green River and the Hoosic, and it’s becoming one of my favorite places. The walk wanders […]
Read article