Berkshire Stories: History – Nature – People – Conservation

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Description

Morgan Bulkeley first saw the Berkshires on a golden fall day in 1928. A school outing brought him to Bear Mountain, where he ate a sandwich ashis eyes feasted on the natural beauty spread before him. He used to be fourteen and all at once found himself in love with a place.

In more than 100 pithy, beautiful, and ceaselessly witty pieces, Bulkeley records the incredibly complex riches of his beloved Berkshire County. Organized into four sections (history, nature, people, and conservation), Berkshire Stories offers a profound portrait of an evolving community and landscape. Reading these stories, we come to bear in mind what it means to really inhabit a place. We not only get to know its history and people, its ecology, plants, birds, and animals, but also its geological past and its potentially human future.

Someone who has ever been touched by the rich wonderful thing about the Berkshires―whether for the first time or as a lifelong resident―will love this book.

Berkshire Stories is illustrated all the way through with drawings by the well known artist Morgan Bulkeley, Jr., the writer’s son.

Contents:

  • Foreword by Morgan Bulkeley, Jr.
  • By Way of Introduction
  • Berkshire History
  • Berkshire Nature
  • Birding and Botanizing
  • Berkshire People
  • Conserving the Berkshires

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