Thursday, February 13, 2025

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

Harriet Bergmann

Harriet Bergmann is a long-time part-time resident of Mount Washington. She and her husband and their Springer Spaniel Banksy commute to the Mountain from New Haven. A retired professor of English, she's currently an adjunct at Yale, teaching creative writing. In New Haven she runs three memoir-writing groups. She reviews theater in the summer, gardens, and enjoys visits from her three grandchildren.

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The ad for the contraption acknowledges that hummingbirds get energy from nectar and sugar water, but they need protein, too, and for that they eat the tiniest insects. Fruit flies!

A lexicon of wildflowers

When they are attractive, we call them wildflowers, but whatever their common name, they can be a nuisance.

Saving the last schoolhouse in the Berkshires’ smallest town

It's the North Schoolhouse that has gripped the town's imagination. Neglected and unused, it sits on West Street, too close to the edge of the road with no parking, absorbing the flow of water down the hill behind it.
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The Edge Is Free To Read.

But Not To Produce.