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NatureGeezer: January 2017

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Mary “May” Rockwell:. A Hotel of Culture. School in Hackettstown, N.J., that is now Centenary University. In 1891, when she was 17, her parents sent her to Europe and she spent six months studying music in Berlin, Germany. She later also studied at Oberlin College. 8220;In the 1920’s when she was in her fort...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Monday, January 02, 2017. Two Careers in Writing. William “Bill” Blankenship had two careers, both successful and both involving writing. The IBM speechwriter, who lived in Ridgefield in the 1970s, wrote novels in his spare time — a dozen of them. 8220;Bill was a great friend to many and was loved for his warmth, humor, generosity, and the ...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Monday, January 02, 2017. How did a veteran of Army intelligence who had been writing for comic books and helping run the family contracting business wind up a Smithsonian Institution curator and author of many volumes of history? Though he retired in 1987 as deputy director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Mr&#46...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Monday, January 02, 2017. The Hermitess on the Mountain. Ridgefield has had not only a hermit, but also a hermitess—though, officially, she was a New Yorker. Sarah Bishop lived in a tiny cave in the side of West Mountain in Lewisboro, N.Y., just across the Ridgefield line westward of Oreneca Road and Sturges Park. 8220;She was of a highly r...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Monday, January 02, 2017. Artist of Pictures and Words. Peggy Bacon was an accomplished artist in both words and pictures, an illustrator, painter, and printmaker, as well as a writer of books for both children and adults, including an acclaimed mystery. 8220;And so the Misses Stone, who were childless — these two sisters in Ridgefiel...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Monday, January 02, 2017. Henry I. Beers:. An ‘Adventure Capitalist’. The financial world today is full of venture capitalists. Back in the 1800s, a Ridgefield native could have qualified as one of the top “adventure capitalists.”. And long before Starbucks, Beers was charging the equivalent of $7 for a cup of coffee. When news of the Gold ...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Monday, January 02, 2017. When Dr. Harry Blum had the first major showing of his art in 1999 at a New York City gallery, it was more than an average art-world milestone. Dr. Blum was 100 years old. He began painting at the age of 35 under the tutelage of a French artist and almost immediately won an award from the San Francisco Museum of Ar...

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Musings on nature in suburbia, meanderings into The Old Days,. And profiles of notable Ridgefield, Connecticut people of the past. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Wednesday, January 11, 2017. Carleton A. Scofield:. The value of the energetic young Scofield was not lost on Samuel Keeler, then owner and publisher of The Press. Karl S. Nash, who would later own the paper, said Keeler saw Scofield “as good protection for his investment in the printing and publishing business.”. For 11 years, Scofield ser...

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NatureGeezer: April 2009

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Musings on nature in suburbia, with meanderings into The Old Days, all keyed to the seasons. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Hen an enemy approaches, many birds react with a technique called “mobbing.” Crows are famous and vociferous mobbers, ganging up and screaming at hawks or owls. For years, scientists considered this mostly a method of chasing away predators. Friday, April 17, 2009. To feed or not to feed. However, there are arguments for not feeding in the early spring ...

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NatureGeezer: A box of bluebirds

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Musings on nature in suburbia, with meanderings into The Old Days, all keyed to the seasons. Follow us on Twitter: @jacksanders. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. A box of bluebirds. Nearly 15 years ago, the spirit moved me to build a bluebird box. Bluebirds were rarely seen in my wooded yard, but I was struck with hope that a nicely built box would attract a nesting pair. Year after year, the box went unused. A parent feeds the chicks. Here’s my theory. House Wrens do not like to share their territories with oth...