Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in the snow. A wonderfully wide, open, often-sunny place for an invigorating winter walk! As I write this, we have not seen the sun for seven […]
Rivers: Our First Highways
Route 3, our current highway, as viewed from the North River, a major highway of the past. Imagine paddling a canoe down Route 3A, rowing a dory up Route 123, […]
The Storm That Changed the River’s Flow
New Inlet as viewed from Third Cliff. The mouth of the North River since November 1898. When it comes to legendary weather events here on the South Shore, we measure […]
Where Does All That Water Go?
Second Herring Brook at the Norris Reservation in Norwell. I probably would not have gone for a walk last Tuesday afternoon if I hadn’t remembered that Daylight Savings Time was […]
The South River: A Hidden Treasure
The South River at Willow Street in Marshfield, looking upstream. Most people on the South Shore know the North River. In newspapers and magazines, in photography and art exhibits, images […]
On Autumn’s Arrival
Kayaking on the South River last week I realized that, once again, summer has ended. It was the marsh grass that decided it for me — throughout the spring and […]
Watershed Walking Places
A bench overlooks the North River at the Packet Landing at Nelson Forest in Marshfield. For three years now, I have been working in one capacity or another for the […]
Striped Bass and How to Release Them Properly
A few weeks ago a friend and I were returning from an afternoon spent canoeing on the North River. We had paddled from the Union Street Bridge to the Pembroke […]
Moons and Tides
In the recent film, “Antonia’s Line,” there is a character who can be heard howling at the full moon every month. She lives in a small village, and most of […]
Turtle Crossing
A turtle in the road. It happens every spring. I am driving down the road late in the afternoon and I see a small dark object ahead of me, right […]