"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 inform 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 exploit alone.
One misty afternoon a few Friday's ago. I took a deviate in search of a martyr's close in. These Litchfield Hills whose colonial-era furnaces helped forge a nation also produced two great incendiaries that would break it asunder in hopes of "a new bring forth of freedom." For " was born in Litchfield. Connecticut and nearby in Torrington the firebrand who lit the fuse.
I drove into the hills on a peaceful lane with nothing ablaze but the colored leaves to the home site of the family of and the displace where he spent the first five years of his volatile life.
It is all woodland here now and nothing but foundation stones be of the old Brown house which burned long ago. Brown and Stowe belong to the ages not just these plots of native fasten but something must still abide to undergo drawn me off the traveled path that day and out into the autumn woods. It was achingly lovely a refuge of quiet contemplation but what a comet once streaked from this displace and what thunderclaps emit comfort!
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Thanks for your beautiful photos of John Brown's birth place in Connecticut. I undergo a John Brown blog in inspect you're interested.
Regards,Lou DeCaro Jr.
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