The Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place & Culture at Franklin Pierce College

The MONADNOCK INSTITUTE NEWS An annual record of thoughts, activities, and events for “place-makers” in the region Spring, 2004 Fall Conference 2004: A Taste of Place

n Saturday, October 16, 2004, the Monadnock Institute will host its Oninth annual conference on a place-related theme at Franklin Pierce College. This year’s event, entitled A Taste of Place: The Lure of Local Foods, will focus on the types and sources of foods produced in the Monadnock Region. The keynote speaker will be Annie Cheatham, Executive Director of Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) in Deerfield, MA. The symposium will also include an opportunity to sample some of the foods that are grown and made locally. Registration materials will be available on the Monadnock Institute Web site beginning in July.
Institute News Updates

 Our Regional Stories Anthology Project was featured in the month of March on the Orion Society’s “Stories from the Grassroots” Web page. Each month Orion features the work of an affiliate organization; the Institute feature is archived at http://www.oriononline.org/pages/ogn/members/miprofile.html.

 The Monadnock Institute is presenting on both the Anthology Project and place-based education at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) symposium in Crawford Notch, NH from June 4-6. Spotted Turtle on Tussock Sedge, by David M. Carroll Read more about the artist on Page 8  The Monadnock Institute, in collaboration with the New England Center for Civic Life and the Community Scholarship Consortium at FPC, is piloting two Learning Communities at the college. Ten faculty and staff attended a national conference on Learning Communities in Seattle, WA from May 20- WHAT’S INSIDE 22. To deepen and expand the experience, a two-day workshop open to all faculty will be held at FPC on June 7-8 as well. The Wild Side of Place Remarks from the 2003 annual  On Saturday, February 7, 2004 the Monadnock Institute, in collaboration 2 conference held on October 4th. with the Meeting School in Rindge, welcomed environmentalist and writer Derrick Jensen to Franklin Pierce College. The author of A Language Older Anthology Project Update Than Words and Walking on Water, Jensen engaged the large audience in a Progress report on publication plans for 4 the written anthology, as well as enhance- wide-ranging and passionate conversation focused on parenting, educational ments to the Monadnock Stories Web site. reforms, and the collapse of corporate culture.
Education Initiatives Descriptions of the place course at FPC, Ed McMahon to Speak at KSC 6 NEH Teacher Workshops, GIS mapping seminar, and the Heritage Fair. Ed McMahon, Vice President and Director of Land Use Programs for The A Record of Participation Conservation Fund and author of Balancing Nature and Commerce in A list of 2003 conference registrants, insti- Gateway Communities, is giving a free public lecture co-sponsored by the 8 tute donors, Executive Committee amd Monadnock Instititue in Keene State College’s Mabel Brown Room at 7pm Advisory Board members, plus A Portrait on Tuesday, June 15. His presentation, “The Dollars and Sense of Preserving of the Artist. Community Character,” will address smart growth, sustainable development and the benefits of historic preservation and land conservation.
CONFERENCE 2003 SUMMARY

THE WILD SIDE OF PLACE

ultures all over the world have But humans transgressed “C honored animals as teachers and their gifts. Man-eating ti- protectors, as bringers of wonder, of great gers today kill 300 people a gifts, bearers of extraordinary percep- year there. But tigers else- tions, bringers of rain and drought as well where do not. “You never as providers of meat and clothing.” So see them,” she said of the began author and Hancock resident Sy big cats, “because they Montgomery, as she kicked off the eighth don’t like you to see them. annual Monadnock Institute of Nature, They want to attack you Place, and Culture symposium at Franklin from the back and eat you. Pierce College on October 4th. You never get to see your study subject, who is trying In Amazon River country, Montgomery to kill you!” Paul Rezendes, Sy Montgomery, and David Carroll sought the river-dwelling whales known respond to questions from participants. as pink dolphins. In mythology, she About 90 percent of people killed by the pointed out, dolphins have guided hu- tigers each year have left the fishing this earth, and when we forget loyalty to mans for millennia and were given el- zones they themselves established, she animals we forget who we are and where evated places by the ancient Greeks. “I said, “and gone into the tiger reserve, we belong, and we no longer treat our had to trust that I would be able to which is older than the Indian govern- home as home.” follow them in another way,” she said, ment, dating back to the time of the meaning “follow” as more than mere origination of the story” of the forest Sy Montgomery concluded, “what we’re pursuit, “more in a way as a disciple goddess. These tigers may be killing trying to do, all of us here today, and might follow a teacher. And in this way I humans, Montgomery said, “because what the Monadnock Institute of Na- was able to follow them into realms I the tigers are hyper-territorial. But locals ture, Place and Culture is seeking, is to would never have dreamed of.” say that any tiger might be a god stand- mend the brokenness of the world, trying ing in front of you.” This is a very old to put things back together, mending the Animals have long been teachers, guides concept, that animal totems enter your promises that have been broken between and sources of inspiration, respected and body to become part of your strength, us and the rest of the natural world.” imitated. When American Indians go on she said. “This is what happens when a vision quest, she pointed out, they you follow an animal to its place, and Excerpted from the article “Montgomery Illustrates Lessons From Wilderness” by Steve often seek an animal to be their totem, that place, too, enters you forever.” their personal patron. The bear, for Sherman, which appeared in The Monadnock example, is the traditional medicine Many tribal peoples claim to have de- Home Companion in October, 2003. woman, Montgomery said, “who taught scended from animals, she said, and us humans to use medicinal herbs. As it “again and again we’re told of people Paul Rezendes turns out, bears, like chimps, are among who turned into animals. In many Writer, photographer, and tracker Paul the very few animals that we know who cultures, it is not only desirable to par- Rezendes spoke next about the art of use herbal medicine.” In support, the take of animal powers, sometimes it is tracking large mammals in New England. speaker cited a story of a hunter who necessary to actually become the ani- Rezendes began by emphasizing that watched a grizzly strip bark from a willow mal.” People have become a leopard (in tracking is not about pursuing an actual tree, which has little nutritional value. stories), she noted as an example, and animal as in hunting, but rather is about After the hunter shot the bear, he pried then as a leopard killed an enemy, reading the signs an animal leaves behind open the animal’s jaws and saw the bear though they would never kill if they had in order to become intimate with it. A had an abscessed tooth. “But around remained human. “In all these stories,” person who achieves this kind of intimacy that tooth was wrapped all that willow Montgomery said, “we and the animals can, for example, use the concentration bark. Willow bark contains salicylic acid, are part of one another. Their stories are of American Yew, a favorite food of which is the ingredient that makes aspirin our stories, too, only using different white-tailed deer, to determine how relieve pain,” she said. language.” many deer per acre there are on a parcel of land.. “It is a world where hemlock When Montgomery traveled to West She cited the old English root of the trees speak of porcupines, and blueberry Bengal, India, to study man-eating tigers, word “truth” as resting on the concept shoots talk about snowshoe hares,” ac- she heard stories of the forest goddess of loyalty. The interaction of people’s cording to the speaker. “By observing who agreed with other gods to share stories and connections to animals are what is happening to the animal, you the riches of the forest with humans. true “in that they honor that loyalty that learn what is happening to the surround- 2 long ago we had pledged to our place on ing environment, and ultimately to the sions. Bears also leave a distinctive pat- reaches about 34 degrees, and an ob- tracker, himself.” Paul Rezendes asserted tern of claw or bite marks on certain trees server must be careful not to startle or to participants that once an individual generation after generation. Rezendes disturb them at this time. The naturalist hones the skill of tracking, there becomes closed his remarks by reminding partici- spoke fondly of one spotted turtle he no separation between what is happening pants that “animals can teach us to look nicknamed Ariadne, who he has wit- to the forest and what is happening inside within ourselves to find reasons to ex- nessed emerge from her hibernation for the self. “The inner landscape becomes plain the behaviors we exhibit.” more than 18 years. part of the trackers journey, and respon- sible behaviors like compassion arise not David M. Carroll David Carroll discussed the importance from rules, but from a sense of oneness The third presenter, David M. Carroll, of vernal pools in the life cycle of most with all life.” researches, writes about and draws rep- turtles and amphibians. He used photo- tiles and amphibians in Warner, NH. graphs to illustrate the dangers of resi- Rezendes utilized slides of photographs Carroll utilized slides to illustrate the life dential encroachment on a vernal pool, he had taken of bear and bobcat to and daily routines of several species of and described how each year he finds illustrate and reinforce his ideas. Focus- turtles. “Turtles have been around for more and more turtles smashed and ing first on cat tracks, he depicted how a 250 million years, and they have not maimed by off-road vehicles and careless bobcat will double back or vanish within changed much. They live close to hu- dirt bike drivers. “There are more and an overlapping set of footprint in re- mans without much opportunity for in- more people interested in viewing fewer sponse to a human following it. Bears, teraction.” To follow the lifecycle of a and fewer protected acres.” When asked on the other hand, seem to welcome the turtle species, an observer must begin about how to solve the problems of presence of humans, and will sometimes when snow is still on the ground in early encroachment, Carroll spoke in favor of leave elaborate bite marks on trees as if to March. At this time spotted turtles private ownership and protection efforts say, “I am here, and intend to leave my emerge from their hiberculum, having by individuals who are motivated by a mark.” Bears have been known to return spent five months in an anaerobic envi- strong environmental and conservation again and again along the same trail, ronment deep in the mud. Turtles begin ethic.
creating a ritual trail of footprint depres- to emerge when the air temperature

Afternoon Hikes on Campus After lunch, Paul Rezendes and two of his assistants, John McCarter and Nick Wisniewski, led tracking expeditions through woods on the Franklin Pierce College campus. Participants had an opportunity to distinguish between the browse patterns of rabbits and those of deer, and to observe the feeding behaviors of a porcupine on oak leaves and acorns. The elementary lessons in tracking also included a focus on identifying animal scats, and what such signs can tell us about a mammal’s diet and behavior. Participants learned how to slow their pace in the woods, and how to begin to look carefully beneath their feet and above their head for animal signs. David Carroll leads a tour of campus wetlands. David Carroll and Catherine Koning of FPC also lead a ramble through several types of wetlands on the College’s undeveloped property. The group first encountered a forested wetland, and David pointed out that the bumpy, hummock- and-hollow topography of this community provides excellent hiding, feeding and/or breeding places for four-toed salamanders, American toads and treefrogs. The group next visited a 13-acre freshwater marsh. Although heavily vegetated with grasses, sedges and cattails, there is not enough open water in this type of wetland for spotted, Blanding’s, or painted turtles. David discussed the role that beavers play in maintaining biodiversity in marshes over time and space. While walking to the next stop, David noted a recently logged area alongside the dirt road and speculated that its exposed soils and southern exposure, near the pond, provide an excellent nesting habitat for snapping turtles. Almost immediately, two snapping turtle hatchlings (unfortunately flattened by cars) were found on the road. The last stop was a leatherleaf- sphagnum moss wetland which Carroll described as a prime habitat for all of the aquatic turtles. The group was excited to think that these rare creatures might be lurking in the murky water below, already settled in for the long winter. 3 ANTHOLOGY UPDATE

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND TO PUBLISH VOLUME

he Monadnock Institute is pleased to announce that it T has signed a contract with the University Press of New England (UPNE) to publish its regional stories anthology Where the Mountain Stands Alone, due out in early 2006. Where The Mountain Stands During the past year, the anthology advisory committee, under Alone: An Introduction the expert guidance of author and editor Howard Mansfield, solicited and received ten new essays, developed the accepted book proposal and organized a table of contents. We will onadnock. “The mountain that stands alone,” in the continue to collect and edit essays by professional writers and M Algonquin languages. “The Grand Monadnock” to anecdotes and accounts by longtime local residents, and plan to poets and visitors in the 19th Century. “That New Hampshire submit a final manuscript in the fall of 2004. bluff,” said Henry David Thoreau, “will longest haunt our dreams.” In addition, the anthology advisors have also redesigned the This is a book about the mountain-haunted dreams and lives of Monadnock Stories Web site for 2004. The revised site, found those who have inhabited the land in sight of Monadnock. It is at www.monadnockstories.org, features essays by professional a family portrait with a mountain as one of the treasured writers, oral histories by loggers, farmers, millworkers and members. The book’s many essays present the mountain as you community historians, and stories by secondary school educa- would see it as a resident—up close, and far away, in all seasons, tors and high school students focused on local places, people its varied profile changing both its appearance and your mood. and events. The expanded Web site features many more oral With essays, recollections, historical documents, and photos, histories augmented with historic photographs, a map of the Where the Mountain Stands Alone will portray life in the region to organize stories geographically, and a concise intro- Monadnock Region as it was once lived, and as it is lived today. duction to each story, essay and Power Point presentation. We are not compiling a straight history, a recitation of dates and facts, but rather the stories that capture the life of a place, Sugaring the Old the habits and hopes of a community. Fashioned Way All good place essays are about close observation, being tourists of the near- John Putnam describes the way at-hand, looking carefully once again at he collected and boiled maple things so familiar they have begun to sap in the 1930s. escape our notice, even if they have changed immensely over time. In this When I come back from way we avoid becoming what the na- Marlborough I got sugar hungry tional park rangers call “windshield vis- and by gees I went bought 90 itors”—acquiring drive-through snap- buckets off of my brother-in-law Hinds Sugar Camp, Chesterfield NH, 1894. Photo by George N. Smith, Courtesy of the Historical Society of shots of vast places we can barely re- and I made some spouts. Gut- Cheshire County. member by the time the film is devel- ted up Sumacs. Cut off Sumacs oped. Our editors have applied strict and made spouts enough for oh, gee wiz, I had enough that night for 90 criteria in deciding if an essay belongs in buckets. And I bought a couple of pans made for that business, ya know. Have this book, asking questions such as: an arch, big ones around the back and the front, front one was a smaller one. I Does the essay have dirt under its nails? worked my head off. Night and day. I still had a job waiting for me down at the Is the writer working from a specific saw mill cuz they were down for something. I forget now why. Mud. place? Is he or she studying this place in I made 40 gallons of syrup. Old Wet Willie, what a church member he was. depth? Is he or she working the land to Well, he come down one Sunday morning with his oxen and old sled. “Come examine our perceptions, overturn our on” he says, “and we’ll go out and get you a load of wood.” We went up into expectations, working to see the place as Pisgah and cut a lot of them dead chestnuts. That made good wood. clearly as possible? Those pieces of writing to which we can answer these My father had two old pans. They was old, old ones. You could make the nicest questions affirmatively are the ones in- tasting syrup, by God. Beat the evaporators all the devil. You could get a taste, cluded in this volume.
real stuff. We used to have gallon cans, sure, same as they do now but…there weren’t no fancy top on them. And I sold most of that syrup for $2.00 a gallon. Excerpted from the book proposal submit- ted to UPNE by editor Howard Excerpted from the anthology Web site, www.monadnock stories.org, and transcribed by Mansfield. 4 Cynthia Schoch from recordings made by the Winchester Historical Society in the 1980s. Where The Mountain Stands Alone Highlights from the Table of Contents The table of contents takes its outline from the shape of human settlement in Northern New England. There are five sections, and each will include a short introduction.

SECTION ONE: First Encounters “The Last Indian” by Marge Bruchac The Non-Vanishing Abenaki. From the 18th Century to today, Americans have mistakenly written the Abenaki’s obituary. 11,000 Years on the Ashuelot by Bob Goodby Life at a bend in the river since the last glacier. Mountain Island by Peter Sauer The creation of N.H.’s folded uplands, which are unique in North America. Parables of Place by Tom Wessels Pisgah Old Growth; The Great September Gale of 1815; Gap Mt. Sheep Fever; Stonewalls & Flax; White Pine & Ice; Murder & Fire. SECTION TWO: Making Land The Family History of Water by John J. Colony III Dickinson Saw Mill, Pisgah Forest, Winchester, NH. From waterpower to leisure power in the textile mills of Harrisville. A tale of Photo Courtesy of the Winchester Historical Society. four generations told by the fifth. A Mill Girl’s Offering by Ronald Jager A Lowell mill girl honors her New Hampshire home with the gift of a library. “Look to the Hills” by Jane Brox When New Hampshire grew apples for economic survival. SECTION THREE: Emptying Out The last 113 People by Alan Rumrill A hill town nearly disappears. A photo essay. Land of Stone by Kevin Gardner The stonework of earlier times interpreted by a modern builder of stone walls. Blueberry Planet by Roger Swain All domestic blueberries arise from one Greenfield bush. Webb Quarry workers in Marlborough, NH. SECTION FOUR: Returning Photo courtesy of the Marlborough Historical Society. Abbott Thayer in the Spell of Monadnock by Richard Meryman The mountain was the artist’s cathedral. He not only painted it, he saved it. The Tragic Life of William Preston Phelps by Edie Clark From Dublin to Europe, from the Grand Canyon to Monadnock, a painter’s homage and loss. Far from Nebraska’s Prairies by Linda Dyer Willa Cather falls in love with the mountain. The Return of the Wild by Sy Montgomery The comeback of moose, bears, beavers, and turkeys. SECTION FIVE: Here & Now in the Global Market Taxi by Ernest Hebert A young writer encounters race and class on the night shift. Stone wall in Rindge, NH. “Getting Out of the Hole in Nelson” by Jim Collins A very small town keeps dancing: the long tradition of the contra dance. The Bypass & The Turnpike by William Craig We have always had a problem with big roads. We want them, just not here. Is there a Monadnock Land Ethic? by Richard Ober Saving land runs in some families — until it runs out. 5 EDUCATION INITIATIVES

American Studies 301 NEH New Millennium Update

n the Fall 2003 semester, 22 students at Franklin n 2003-2004 twenty-five teachers at Keene and Conant IPierce College enrolled in Place, Community and IHigh School participated in nine academic seminars and one American Culture, a course designed and taught by weeklong summer workshop as part of the NEH-sponsored Institute Director John Harris. Students took walks, Schools for a New Millennium grant. sketched in journals, and researched local archives searching for clues about the natural and cultural history Spring 2003 of five sites on campus. They drew maps, interviewed In February the topic was the Art of Place, a presentation local residents, and solicited advice from author and discussing the importance of the visual arts in deepening an ecologist Tom Wessels in reporting their discoveries. In understanding of place by Dr. Gerald Burns, Chair of the the second half of the semester, class participants American Studies program at Franklin Pierce College, Michelle worked in teams researching and writing about sites Stahl, Director of the Peterborough Historical Society, and they selected in the Monadnock region. Their presenta- Mary Iselin, a recognized artist who lives in Marlborough, NH tions included a historical synopsis of Amos Fortune, a and paints the hills, slopes, and light of the Monadnock region. study of the Ark and the Bascom denim mill in Jaffrey, a In March, Alan Rumrill, executive director of the Historical comprehensive investigation of Jones Warren Wilder’s Society of Cheshire County, and Tom Haines, education Cheshire Place and the Cathedral of the Pines in director of the same facility, presented an overview of the Rindge, and a detailed study of cellar holes in the region’s cultural history, beginning with the earliest settlements northwest corner of Rindge. Course evaluations in- in the 1730s, to seminar participants; they also introduced cluded the following comments: them to the range of materials in the Cheshire County collection available to teachers and students. In April, Tom Wessels, an ecologist at Antioch New England graduate school and author of Reading the Forested Landscape, summarized the forest history of New England from 1600 forward, and used slides to illustrate the disturbance patterns evident in the woods today. Summer 2003 From June 29-July 2 eighteen teachers from Keene and Conant High Schools participated in the New Millennium Place workshop. The goals of the workshop included: instruction in reading natural history landscape clues, instruction in local history research, instruction in new technology digital formats, and completion of a curriculum project focused on a regional topic and utilizing new technology. On the first day of the workshop, ecologist Tom Wessels from Antioch New England Graduate School instructed teachers in the landscape history of AS 301 students visit Willa Cather’s Grave in Jaffrey, NH New England. Tom led hikes to two locations: a Black Gum swamp in Vernon, Vermont, and a section of old growth forest “I have never done anything like this before—it was an in Pisgah State Park in Winchester, New Hampshire. Over the amazing learning experience.” following two days participants researched local archives and records at the Historical Society of Cheshire County for “I really enjoyed being able to piece together the his- information about individual properties, ethic neighborhoods, tory and present times of these particular sites.” manufacturing concerns, and local organizations. Participants “This course brought the land to life—a tree wasn’t received extensive training and practice in digital photography just a tree, but told a story from the past.” and scanning techniques. Teachers also learned how to create Web-based place essays, Power Point presentations, and Flash “This class was a fantastic way to learn the exact foun- audiotape presentations. On the final day, each teacher dation of land. Having contact with resources like presented his or her research findings to the group using a Amy Raymond is the best way to learn about the com- digital format. These presentations, which appear on the munity.” www.monadnockstories.org website, ranged from a study of a smallpox pest house in Jaffrey to an investigation of an Italian “Going out and experiencing what you are learning [in immigrant neighborhood in Keene. class] teaches so much more and makes a huge, lasting 6 impression.”
Spring 2004 The first seminar of 2004 took place on March 3 at Conant High School. Dr. David Glassberg, University of Massa- chusetts Department of History Chair and author of Sense of History, facilitated a discussion of the concept of public history and New England heritage. Dr. Glassberg focused on the rich potential that local themes such as memorials and parklands introduce for secondary school student research. Dr. Glassberg described his approach to teaching history as “helping students let go of the form the past takes in order to grasp its essence.” On March 24 partici- pants joined presenter Jeff Porter, Assistant Director of Southwest Region Planning Commission, at Keene High School. Mr. Porter focused on the demographic changes in population, transportation, and residential and commercial building in the Monadnock Region over the past decade. He addressed these issues by summarizing the increased prominence of organizations like the Monadnock Conser- Tom Wessels leads teachers on a hike in Pisgah State Park. vancy and Smart Growth in our region. In the final spring seminar on May 5, Eric Lewtas, an architect in Dan Scully’s In August, project director Dr. John Harris met with eight architectural firm, provided a guided tour of residential and teachers at Conant High School in Jaffrey to discuss and commercial architectural styles in downtown Keene. Par- design plans to implement an American Studies course ticipants had an opportunity to learn about the design and focused on local heritage and landscape interpretation at construction of the city’s oldest home, several prominent Conant High School in the fall of 2004. In March, the mansions on Main Street, the old Sentinel building, the school board gave its approval to include the new course in Colonial theater, and the National Grange Mutual build- next year’s offerings. Faculty members Marsha Griffin ing. Alan Rumrill, executive director of the Historical (Chairperson, Social Studies) and Robert Henderson Society of Cheshire County, provided background on the (Chairperson, Natural Sciences), together with John Harris, settlement history and evolution of neighborhoods in will consult with pilot course instructors Richard Simoneau Keene.
(Social Studies) and Michael Rowland (Environmental Science) to design the course. A summer workshop scheduled for June 28-July 2, 2004 will assist teachers in curriculum design and lesson planning for this course. Partnership with AVEO Fall 2003 From June 15-18, 2004 the Ashuelot Valley Environmen- tal Observatory (AVEO) will join the Monadnock Institute On October 30, Historical Society of Cheshire County in sponsoring a geographic information system (GIS) Executive Director Alan Rumrill provided a detailed outline instructional workshop for faculty at Franklin Pierce Col- cataloguing the society’s holdings on regional and New lege, Keene State College, and Antioch New England Hampshire history. Participants used the second half of the Graduate School. One goal of the collaboration is to seminar to conduct individual research utilizing his outline. instruct and assist FPC students in gathering and invento- In November, participants joined presenter Kay Morgan at rying natural and cultural history data at specific sites in the Conant High School. Morgan, the Director of the NH region. Heritage Project and recipient of the Christa McCauliffe
fellowship for teaching excellence, facilitated a discussion focused on interview techniques and the collection of oral history. Morgan had teams of teachers practice generating NH Heritage Project Fair questions, conducting interviews, and writing up the inter- view process. In the final fall seminar, Robert Finch, author On Thursday, May 27, 2004 four students from Keene of Death of a Hornet, facilitated a discussion of several of the High School and five students from Conant High School essays from his latest book. Teachers were very interested in attended the second annual Heritage Fair at Plymouth the essay “Town Ghosts,” and many agreed with Finch’s State University. The contingent from Keene summarized assertion that some stories need to be left unwritten so that a video project supervised by Social Studies instructor young people can continue to discover them on their own. William Derry and a Keene Sentinel writing project coordi- nated by American Studies instructor Tony Dubois.
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WILD SIDE OF PLACE PARTICIPANTS

Conference Presenters John Hanson Mitchell, Littleton, MA Susan Mooney, Easton, MA David M. Carroll, Warner, NH Mark Morey, Brattleboro, VT INSTITUTE INFORMATION John McCarter, Royalston, MA Sarah Nangeroni, Charlestown, NH Sy Montgomery, Hancock, NH Marcia Osborn, Mason, NH Paul Rezendez, Royalston, MA Sandy Parker-Stetter, Stoddard, NH Nick Wisniewski, Royalston, MA Polly Pattison, Hancock, NH Executive Committee Richard Paz, Rindge, NH John Harris, Director Community Members Valerie Piedmont, Gilsum, NH Gerald Burns, Chair Eric Poor, Peterborough, NH Janet Aardema, Keene, NH Catherine Owen, Vice Chair Bill Preston, Rindge, NH Delia Adams, Mason, NH Robert Goodby Margaret Ratheau, Wilmington, VT Hannah Aleshnick, Guilford, VT Jennifer Risley, Swanzey, NH Paul Kotila Maya Aleshnick, Guilford, VT Fred Rogers, Rindge, NH Amy McIntyre Janet Altobello, Hancock, NH Helene Rogers, Rindge, NH Rhine Singleton Rona Balco, Bolton, MA Chuck Roth, Fitzwilliam, NH Mike Barrett, Keene NH Jean Sable, Fitzwilliam, NH Roberta Beeson, Hancock NH Allen Salzberg, Forest Hills, NY Advisory Board Cara Benedetto, Brattleboro, VT Anita Salzberg, Forest Hills, NY Jane Brox Jacob Bradford, Guilford, VT Eron Sandler, Northampton, MA Meade Cadot Linda Bundy, Antrim, NH Paul Schlotman, Peterborough, NH John Colony III Pavel Cenkl, Bethlehem, NH Todd Schongalla, Sanbornton, NH Frances Chelland, Deering, NH Eleanor Drury Mary Kate Sheridan, Keene, NH David Cheney, Peterborough, NH Robert Finch Steve Sherman, Hancock, NH Rosemary Conroy, Goffstown, NH Ibit Getchell Erin Sibbald, Rindge, NH Marsha Cormier, Peterborough, NH Jaenie Sibbald, Rindge, NH Andrew Kordalewski Catherine Dart, Ashburnham, MA Danielle Simmons, Rindge, NH David Liddel Harry Davis, Rindge, NH Melanie Simo, Bradford, NH Howard Mansfield James Dixon, Kingston, MA Jay Smeltz, Keene, NH Philip McCormack Julie Dickson, Keene, NH Tim Stetter, Stoddard, NH Joni Doherty, Peterborough, NH John Hanson Mitchell William Stroup, Keene, NH Jed Donelan, Peterborough, NH Tim Murphy Mary Sweeney, Brattleboro, VT Jenny Donelan, Peterborough, NH Peter Sauer Jacques Veilleux, Rindge, NH Dori Drachman, Jaffrey, NH Christine Salem Gaynol Wapotich, Brattleboro, VT Matt Dubel, Keene, NH Susan Weeks, Groton, MA David Stewart Smith Molly Farrell, Rindge, NH Beverly Weigler, Goffstown, MA Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Jennifer Frost, Sanbornton, NH William Wise, Becket, MA Tom Wessels Daniel Gagnon, Chesterfield, NH Shannon Wood, Charlestown, NH Ibit Getchell, Burlington, VT Claire Green, Warwick, MA Gretchen Ziegler, Rindge, NH MONADNOCK INSTITUTE OF Kristen Grubbs, Marlborough, NH Michael Haas, Fitzwilliam, NH Sustaining Supporters 2003 NATURE, PLACE & CULTURE Molly Haas, Fitzwilliam, NH Frances Chelland, Deering, NH Franklin Pierce College Amy Hyatt, Brattleboro, VT David & Marguerite Cheney, Peterborough, NH 20 College Road Richard Jenkins, Peterborough, NH Catherine Dart, Ashburnham, MA Patrick Keegan, Charlestown, NH John Hoffman, Sullivan, NH P.O. Box 60 Andrew Kordalewski, Peterborough, NH J. Parker Huber, Brattleboro, VT Rindge, NH 03461 Paul Kotila, Fitzwilliam, NH Richard Jenkins, Peterborough, NH Phone: 603-899-4010 Fred Lavigne, Center Sandwich, NH Cornelia Jenness, Spofford, NH Fax: 603-899-1055 Kevin Lecy, Athol, MA Andrew Kordalewski, Peterborough, NH Kirby Lecy, Rindge, NH David B. Liddell, Manlius, NY Email: [email protected] Miriam Lockhart, Greenfield, NH Miriam Lockhart, Greenfield, NH [email protected] Anthony Luzzi, West Haven, CT Louise Malcolm, Peterborough, NH www.fpc.edu/monadnockinstitute Evelyn MacKinnon, Center Sandwich, NH Marcia Osborn, Mason, NH Carol Menck, Keene, NH David Proper, Keene, NH Contributors to Articles: John Harris, Meredith Martin, Dublin, NH Thomas Sedgewick, Jaffrey, NH Tara Marvel, Henniker, NH Catherine Owen, Steve Sherman William Stroup, Keene, NH Layout: Amy McIntyre Jeannie McGartland, Troy, NH Judy Unger-Clark, Rindge, NH Nancy McGartland, Troy, NH Patryc Wiggins, Guild, NH Tom Meehan, Keene, NH Dr. Jacob & Georgia Wolterbeek, Rindge, NH Katie Metzger, Fitzwilliam, NH

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST David M. Carroll, Artist, Author and Naturalist David M. Carroll lives in Warner, NH, where he makes plenty of time to observe the wetland wildlife that are the focus of his work. His books include three acclaimed natural histories, Year of the Turtle, Trout Reflections and Swampwalker’s Journal, and a memoir centered on his lifelong fascination with turtles, entitled Self-Portrait With Turtles. David is an active lecturer and turtle/wetlands preservation advocate. His presentations and seminars at various conservation and education organizations have reached audiences from elementary to graduate students, and his work has been 8 featured on the NBC “Sunday Today” show and National Public Radio’s “Living on Earth”.