“This event brings everybody in the community together,” Chamber Executive Director Betsy Andrus told The Berkshire Edge in a past interview. “It brings out residents and out-of-town visitors together with our business owners.
"If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.”
-- Elizabeth Kolbert in "The Sixth Extinction"
