Category: Hurricane Irene
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The one-year anniversary of Hurricane Irene came and went, and I tried not to notice. Grass has grown back, as best it could, given the drought. The garden is re-established, still lacking many perennials but with improved soil and design; we have added a second garden, especially for daylilies. We love the broad, mow-able path…
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On a recent visit to Mill Brook House, my sister asked if I remembered eating in our dinette when we were kids. From the 1920’s-1940’s dinettes, small alcoves with a built-in table and benches, made smaller more efficient kitchens possible. Ours was generally packed with no fewer than five people, my mother presiding over…
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Flower by flower, Mill Brook House is coming back. There are bluebirds in the birdhouses, yellow-bellied sapsuckers tapping up a storm in the woods, and a great blue heron is frequenting the Irene-enlarged stream that runs behind the house. Having channeled the entire Mill Brook for one week, the stream is now large enough to…
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A year that started out so hopefully for us in Charlemont, a new windmill and an old store turned 150, turned out to contain multiple weather disasters for Western Massachusetts with Hurricane Irene causing the most distress in the hilltowns. Avery's store c. 1880 The Mill Brook off…
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The beautiful Mill Brook Downgraded to a tropical storm, Hurricane Irene made its way relatively languidly through the northern Appalachians, dumping record amounts of rain and causing massive flooding. Little Charlemont, which, in the past, had escaped floods, ice storms, and tornadoes, took a direct hit. The beautiful Mill Brook, for which our…
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