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Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
Walnuts.
30-Oct-11Snow Indeed.
28-Oct-11Snow!
27-Oct-11We’re supposed to have snow tonight. Probably nothing like the 16″ we got on October 28th three years ago, but we’ll see.
Sales Resistance and Killing Chipmunks.
27-Oct-11Wendell Berry says that in the preface to his very interesting book Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community that his book about “sales resistance,” a term which I think he never uses again (I do intend to look at the book again and review it). I presume he means by this term a life less economically […]
Applejack.
27-Oct-11I’ve written before about home-fermented beverages, and how I’m especially partial to apple-fermented drinks, because they are entirely local and use the tons of otherwise unharvested apples around here. Pictured here is a bottle of applejack (“Jersey Lightning”) made by my sister’s father-in-law. She was quite willing to part with some of hers, due to […]
The View From My Window.
26-Oct-11Dawn over Red Hill.
Pawpaws, the Northeast’s largest fruit.
26-Oct-11Pawpaws are the largest fruit native to eastern North America; they were part of the diet of the native Americans, but like most of the native foods of this area they are almost unknown today. The trees are not easy to grow: the seeds are favored by rodents, the seedlings can easily be killed by […]
Catskill Park Signs.
26-Oct-11While driving through Massachusetts recently, I was struck by the signs they have at the edges of their townships: they are not flashy or special, but in terms of aesthetics, class, and a relationship to human signmaking traditions they are a step above the normal American roadsign. Well apparently someone in the Catskills felt that […]
Inspecting County Road 47.
02-Oct-11[On my computer the photos are not coming out where they ought to, but I’m a bit too busy to fix it right now.] Several local roads have been closed since the hurricane, but word has gotten around that some are in fact passable: you drive around the roadblock and find that the road is […]
Wendell Berry on why I live the way I do.
28-Oct-11http://uslanka.net/admin/uploads/ “However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world […]