I’m a teacher, linguist, time-traveler and fiddler. After Peace Corps years in North Africa in the 60s, I was drawn back to live in my great- grandfather’s house in the Millers River valley in northern Massachusetts. Judah’s old house is not far from my childhood home above the Narrows of the Connecticut River at the place called Peskeompskut by Native Americans who lived here for 12,000 years. The place is now known as Turners Falls.
Having started keeping a journal at age 11, I’ve continued writing about the place I live in, drawing forth stories about the natural world of this valley, its history, village characters, and rural life along the river.