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A Visit to Lover’s Leap Farm
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Farmer Curt Gobrecht in the farrowing barn at Lover’s Leap Farm in Kinderhook, NY Spring marks kidding season for goats. Sheep, at least their...
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Birding with an Expert
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Birder Elisabeth Grace examining a warbler nest at Ooms Conservation Area in Chatham, NY When I started spending weekends upstate in the late 1970’s...
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Maintaining a Well Groomed Road
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN I celebrated Earth Day last weekend the way I do every year. By collecting the trash that accumulated on our road over the previous twelve months. I...
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Shooting Clay Pigeons
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Lucy Gardner shooting sporting clays at Orvis Sandanona in Millbrook, NY The last time I went hunting it didn’t go well. I was aiming at a bird high in...
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A Fish With No Name
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN GRASS CARP — Credit U.S. Geological Survey/Public Domain — Wikimedia Commons I own exactly one fish. Lately I’ve been thinking I ought to give him a...
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Feed Your Hummingbirds
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Homemade hummingbird nectar After you’ve watched hummingbirds feed at your hummingbird feeder for a while – what, you don’t own a hummingbird feeder?...
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A Long Overdue Visit to Mohonk Mountain House
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Mohonk Mountain House I filled a rather significant hole in my Hudson Valley education last weekend. I finally spent a couple of nights at Mohonk...
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Communing With Camels
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Miyako Kinoshita, Green Chimneys Education Program Manager, with Phoenix, a Bactrian camel My family has this game we play. It’s not really a game;...
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Planet Earth to Trump
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Photo of the Earth taken on 12/7/72, by the crew of the Apollo 17 CREDIT PUBLIC DOMAIN / NASA Donald Trump has done a lot to amaze and disturb since...
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Hunting For Hawthorne
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN An acquisition at the Kinderhook, NY Memorial Library book sale A local library book sale isn’t the place you’d expect to go to learn you’re a...
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One Less Carp
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Officer Jeffrey Cox About a month ago I penned a commentary about the single fish in my pond – a grass...
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City vs. Country
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Dancers at Sunset Park in Brooklyn The question comes up often these days: Where would I rather live? The city or the country? And the answer is…...
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Partying for a Good Cause with Joan Davidson
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Joan K. Davidson, President Emeritus of the J.M. Kaplan Fund CREDIT J.M. KAPLAN FUND The first goal of being a philanthropist should be to do good....
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Dodging Raindrops at Tanglewood
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN I love Tanglewood. The problem is Tanglewood doesn’t love me back. My wife and I attended opening night last week and got rained on – and due to my...
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Growing Local Hors d’Oeuvres
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN The first homegrown cherry tomato of the season with Hawaiian black lava salt and refreshments Last holiday season I received an advent calendar...
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Going Overboard for Lobsters
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN What is it about lobster rolls? A trip to Maine would seem incomplete without one of these tasty treats. About the only thing that can compete on...
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August Light
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN There’s something about August light that makes it superior to the light at any other time of year. I realize that’s a large claim to make. Why...
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Traveling Beyond the Headlines
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN A memorial to victims of August’s terrorist attack in Barcelona (photo credit: Ralph Gardner Jr.) There are many benefits to taking a vacation...
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Getting into a Jam
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN photo credit: Lucy Gardner With the headlines – a Mexican earthquake sandwiched between two superstorms – sounding apocalyptic, mental health...
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Thinking of Tortola
Commentary for WAMC Northeast Public Radio LISTEN Lambert Beach, Tortola CREDIT PUBLIC DOMAIN / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS My wife visited the British Virgin Islands in the late 1970’s, part of a crew to...
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