Hello Subscribers:
First of all, I hope you’ve been getting outside to enjoy summer birds, summer music, summer swims and summer picnics. Don’t listen to the naysayers bemoaning the end of the season now that August is here, for as I pointed out in my 2024 Ten Commandments of the Berkshire Summer Season, summer hath not 40 days and nights but lo, more than twice that number.
I’m checking in — before I head onto the Allagash River for five days of canoeing in which I will have no internet or cell service, and the Village Green will be quiet — with a “State of The Village Green.”
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What We’ve Built and What I’ve Learned
I launched the Village Green News on March 22, 2026, with a personal essay.
I conceived of this newsletter as an experiment in hyperlocal jo…
