Update: Joe Zadroga shared these good photos of the Quabbin. It is breathtaking in scope.  Continue reading

Seems like every two years or so we hike along the 20 foot high dike that was built along the Connecticut river to ensure that the farmland (badly flooded in the hurricane of 1938) would stay intact. The Swawsloski potato farm has been here for 200 years. Many Polish immigrants settled and prospered well here-… Continue reading