Berkshire Stories: History - Nature - People - Conservation - Softcover

Bulkeley, Morgan

 
9781584200284: Berkshire Stories: History - Nature - People - Conservation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1584200286 ISBN 13: 9781584200284
Publisher: SteinerBooks, Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Morgan Bulkeley first saw the Berkshires on a golden fall day in 1928. A school outing brought him to Bear Mountain, where he ate a sandwich ashis eyes feasted on the natural beauty spread before him. He was fourteen and suddenly found himself in love with a place. In more than 100 pithy, beautiful, and frequently witty pieces, Bulkeley records the incredibly complex riches of his beloved Berkshire County. Organized into four sections (history, nature, people, and conservation), Berkshire Stories offers a profound portrait of an evolving community and landscape. Reading these stories, we come to understand what it means to truly inhabit a place. We not only get to know its history and people, its ecology, plants, birds, and animals, but also its geological past and its potentially human future. Anyone who has ever been touched by the rich beauty of the Berkshires-whether for the first time or as a lifelong resident-will love this book. Berkshire Stories is illustrated throughout with drawings by the well-known artist Morgan Bulkeley, Jr., the author's son.

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About the Author

Morgan Bulkeley, Jr., was born in 1944 and grew up on his parents' farm in Mount Washington. He graduated from Yale in 1966 and, after fourteen years as an artist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, returned to his childhood home with his wife Eleanor Tillinghast, whose family had summered in Mount Washington for five generations. His painted and sculpted tales of nature colliding with culture are represented by the Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington and at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. A number of his paintings are reproduced in Post-Shopping Wink (Hard Press, 2004).

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Publisher
SteinerBooks, Inc
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1584200286
ISBN 13 
9781584200284
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288