Those of you who prefer the ecological over the historic offerings at Walking the Berkshire may enjoy a helping of each in my latest Nature's Notebook column in the Lakeville Journal, readable here with free registration. Fair use excerpt:
"As a Revolutionary War reenactor who has been known to stand out in the snow in cocked hat and buckled shoes, I am deeply grateful that I do not have to endure the conditions experienced in 1780 by Private Martin and the ragged Continentals at Morristown.
As a naturalist, I know that the bit of birch bark Martin resorted to chewing may not have curbed his hunger, but eating enough of it might have helped him ward off scurvy."
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