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Williamstown is a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States. It shares a border with Vermont to the north and New York to the west. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,754 at the 2010 census.[1] A college town, it is home to Williams College, the Clark Art Institute and the Tony-awarded Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Fairfield Farm, Williamstown, Mass. | No-till and Soil Health
The 400 acres of hay land and 220 acres of corn at Fairfield Dairy Farm in Williamstown, Mass. are set among sweeping vistas of the Berkshire hills. The beauty belies the challenges faced by the five generations of the Galusha family who have farmed this rugged land. Jay Galusha, who, with other family members, milks 240 cows, has found a solution with the help of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williamstown is a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts. It shares a border with Vermont to the north and New York to the west. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,754 at the 2010 census. A college town, it is home to Williams College, the Clark Art Institute and the Tony-awarded Williamstown Theatre Festival, which runs every July and August.
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Its area code is 413. Its ZIP code is 01201 (01202 and 01203 are zip codes for Pittsfield post office boxes only). The population was 44,737 at the 2010 census. Although the population has declined in recent decades, Pittsfield remains the third largest municipality in western Massachusetts, behind only Springfield and Chicopee.
In 2005, Farmers Insurance ranked Pittsfield 20th in the United States as “Most Secure Place To Live” among small towns with fewer than 150,000 residents. In 2006, Forbes ranked Pittsfield as number 61 in its list of Best Small Places for Business. In 2008, Country Home magazine ranked Pittsfield as #24 in a listing of green cities east of the Mississippi. In 2009, the City of Pittsfield was chosen to receive a 2009 Commonwealth Award, Massachusetts' highest award in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In 2010, the Financial Times proclaimed Pittsfield the Brooklyn of the Berkshires, in an article covering its recent renaissance.
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21 Prior Farm Road, Duxbury, Massachusetts real estate
- The original Prior Farm. A Classic historical country estate in the heart of Duxbury Village. 8 beautiful, private acres include lush gardens, manicured lawns and open field. Every detail of the main house has been meticulously restored, thoughtfully updated and maintained to a level of comfortable elegance. Charming 3 room guest cottage. Spectacular gunite pool w/pebble tech finish and health care system. Well situated on the perimeter of the Prior Farm neighborhood.
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East Quabbin Land Trust - Frohloff Farm | Prescribed Burn | Ware, Mass.
When the East Quabbin Land Trust purchased the 90 acre Frohloff Farm in Ware, Massachusetts in 2010, the first order of business was to get a forest stewardship plan. The farm hadn't been managed as farmland in many years and invasive species like glossy buckthorn, multiflora rose, bittersweet, and honeysuckle, were taking over.
The EQLT was interested in seeing agriculture continue, but also wanted to manage the property for wildlife habitat and water supply. The adjacent to the Ware River is priority habitat for wildlife including the wood turtle.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service helped the land trust get financial assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to implement their forest management plan.
A key component of the plan was opening up the forest canopy with fire. The EQLT contracted with the professionals at Northeast Fire and Forest Management to conduct a prescribed burn. They also enlisted the expertise of the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Bureau of Forest Fire Control to assist in this process. The prescribed burn was conducted in June 2016 and results were seen within weeks.
Read the full story on the NRCS website at View an interactive story map at
United States presidential election, 1880 | Wikipedia audio article
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United States presidential election, 1880
00:02:15 1 Background
00:06:29 2 Conventions
00:06:45 2.1 Republicans
00:08:55 2.2 Democrats
00:10:20 2.3 Others
00:13:01 3 Candidates
00:13:10 3.1 Garfield
00:15:14 3.2 Hancock
00:17:03 3.3 Weaver
00:18:40 4 Campaign
00:18:49 4.1 Bloody shirt
00:21:55 4.2 Tariffs and immigration
00:24:11 5 Results
00:26:18 5.1 Irregularities
00:27:51 5.2 Detailed results
00:28:00 5.3 Cartographic gallery
00:28:09 5.4 Results by state
00:28:18 6 Aftermath
00:31:10 7 See also
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The United States presidential election of 1880 was the 24th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880. The voter turnout rate was one of the highest in the nation's history.
Incumbent President Rutherford B. Hayes did not seek re-election, keeping a promise made during the 1876 campaign. After the longest convention in the party's history, the divided Republicans chose another Ohioan, Representative James A. Garfield, as their standard-bearer. The Democratic Party chose General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania as their nominee. The dominance of the two major parties began to fray as an upstart left-wing party, the Greenback Party, nominated another Civil War general for president, Iowa Congressman James B. Weaver. In a campaign fought mainly over issues of Civil War loyalties, tariffs, and Chinese immigration, Garfield and Hancock each took just over 48 percent of the popular vote. Weaver and two other minor candidates, Neal Dow and John W. Phelps, together made up the remaining percentage. The election of 1880 was the sixth consecutive presidential election won by the Republicans, the second longest winning streak in American history after the Democratic-Republican Party during the period 1800–1824.
In the end, the popular vote totals of the two main candidates were separated by 1,898 votes, the smallest victory in the popular vote ever recorded. In the electoral college, however, Garfield's victory was decisive; he won nearly all of the populous Northern states to achieve a majority of 214 electoral votes to 155 for Hancock. Hancock's sweep of the Southern states was not enough for victory, but it cemented his party's dominance of the region for generations. This is the first presidential election in which people in every state (at the time) were able to vote for president (In 1876, Colorado appointed electors by state legislature due to insufficient time to organize an election, in 1864–1872, some states skipped out due to the civil war or reconstruction, and before then some states used state legislature including South Carolina which used the system up through 1860).
Sean Stanton | Blue Hill Farm | Great Barrington, Massachusetts
When Sean Stanton started improving the pastures surrounding his small farm in Great Barrington, Mass., his efforts not only benefited the natural resources of this scenic southwest corner of Berkshire County, but also diners at an upscale eatery on the lower west side of Manhattan.
That's because he supplies the Blue Hill Restaurant in Greenwich Village with pasture-raised beef, veal and pork, as well as eggs and farm-fresh tomatoes. Standing among his 20 head herd in a field skirted by the Appalachian Trail and the rolling Berkshire hills, Sean explains how his farm products found their way to the Big Apple.
I started farming because I wanted to know more about food, where it comes from, how it's produced, explains Sean. I started on 10 acres that my parents own in Great Barrington. Then I met Dan Barber, a chef who owns Blue Hill Restaurant and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York City.
Dan and his brother David own the 135 acre Blue Hill Farm, which Sean now leases from the Barber family. It's a relationship that goes beyond customer and supplier, tenant and landlord. They share a belief that sustainable agriculture produces high quality food.
For help achieving his sustainability goals, Sean turned to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
I've been working with Sean since 2006. He came in as a beginning farmer, says Kate Parsons, District Conservationist in NRCS' Pittsfield office. We looked at all the issues on the farm and helped him with a milk house waste system and a nutrient management plan.
In the conservation plan that Kate developed with Sean, she included 35 acres of rotational grazing -- a management system where livestock is moved from one field to another -- to improve pastures that were dominated by vegetation that the cows had no desire to eat.
It's been amazing to watch the pastures change here, says Sean, explaining that the action of the cows on the pasture -- the regular grazing down and regrowth, and added nutrients from cow manure -- has turned the grass into a nutritious food source for his herd.
It's been exciting to work with a new farmer who's willing to try new things and to see him succeed and improve his farm and his business, says Kate.
Sean agrees. It's really been quite a pleasant experience.
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A Symphony of Songbirds at Red Apple Farm | Phillipston, Mass. | early successional habitat
Early one morning, in the summer of 2018, Bill Rose was walking through a forested area of his family’s farm in Phillipston, Mass. The area had been clear cut as part of a forest conservation project. With just six to 10 trees per acre left standing and scattered brush piles everywhere, the land looked very different than before the cut.
But, it wasn’t what he was seeing that got Rose’s attention. It was what he was hearing. He whipped out his smartphone and started recording video, narrating as he scanned his surroundings. “I'm down here on the brand-new oak regeneration cut. And, with this brand-new cut, I think you can hear what it does: I'm bringing all the birds in. What a symphony, huh?”
Read more at ma.nrcs.usda.gov.
Frank and Lisa Kokoski | F&L Farm | Ware, Massachusetts
Frank Kokoski and his daughter Lisa established F & L Farms in 2004, starting small with chickens, pigs and a few cows. The farm, located in Ware, Massachusetts, a small rural town located in Hampshire County at the southern end of the Quabbin Reservoir, grew quickly with additional livestock being added each year and with a small land base, so did the livestock’s impact on the farm’s natural resources.
After a few years raising livestock, Frank and Lisa realized they could use some help and contacted the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for conservation planning and program support. Read more at ma.nrcs.usda.gov.
James A. Garfield | Wikipedia audio article
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James A. Garfield
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- Socrates
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James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death by assassination six and a half months later. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the Senate seat once elected president. He was the first sitting member of Congress to be elected to the presidency, and remains the only sitting House member to gain the White House.Garfield was raised by his widowed mother in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm. He worked at various jobs, including on a canal boat, in his youth. Beginning at age 17, he attended several Ohio schools, then studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating in 1856. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and served as a member of the Ohio State Senate (1859–1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga. He was first elected to Congress in 1862 to represent Ohio's 19th District. Throughout Garfield's extended congressional service after the Civil War, he firmly supported the gold standard and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, but later favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for freedmen.
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Senator-elect Garfield attended as campaign manager for Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and gave the presidential nomination speech for him. When neither Sherman nor his rivals – Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine – could get enough votes to secure the nomination, delegates chose Garfield as a compromise on the 36th ballot. In the 1880 presidential election, Garfield conducted a low-key front porch campaign, and narrowly defeated Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock.
Garfield's accomplishments as president included a resurgence of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, energizing American naval power, and purging corruption in the Post Office, all during his extremely short time in office. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judicial appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. He enhanced the powers of the presidency when he defied the powerful New York senator Roscoe Conkling by appointing William H. Robertson to the lucrative post of Collector of the Port of New York, starting a fracas that ended with Robertson's confirmation and Conkling's resignation from the Senate. Garfield advocated agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African Americans. He also proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
On July 2, 1881, he was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington D.C. by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. The wound was not immediately fatal for Garfield, but his doctors' uncleaned and unprotected hands are said to have led to infection that caused his death on September 19. Guiteau was convicted of the murder and was executed in June 1882; he tried to name his crime as simple assault by blaming the doctors for Garfield's death. With his term cut short by his death after only 200 days, and much of it spent in ill health trying to recover from the attack, Garfield is little-remembered other than for his assassination. Historians often forgo listing him in rankings of U.S. presidents due to the short length of his presidency.
Whittier Farm, Sutton | Aerial Cover Crop Seeding and Soil Health
Samantha Whitter represents the fifth generation at Whittier Farms in Sutton, Mass. Her family’s 500 acre, 100 head dairy farm is one of the largest in this small town 10 miles south of Worcester, Mass., the second largest city in New England, after Boston.
In the summer of 2015, Samantha’s dad, Wayne Whittier, signed up for aerial cover crop seeding offered by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The conservation practice involves a helicopter swooping over corn fields, releasing winter rye seed from a hopper swinging beneath the chopper. To a bystander, it might look like an air show or a crime scene investigation, but it’s actually a very controlled seed application that uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) to track the helicopter’s flight path and precisely map where seed was distributed.
With a retail farm store that’s open daily and fields that are very visible to their neighbors, the Whittiers knew that some public education was in order.
On the Road in Northern Berkshire County: County Overview | Connecting Point | June 3, 2015
Northern Berkshire County is comprised of the towns of Adams, North Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Hancock, Lanesborough, New Ashford, Savoy, Williamstown, and Windsor. Producer Tony Dunne and videographer Dave Fraser provide an over view to the picturesque region of the state
CQB Airsoft - Camp Windigo, Savoy MA - 1/6/13 - PART 2
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Presidency of James A. Garfield | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Presidency of James A. Garfield
00:03:51 1 Childhood and early life
00:06:30 2 Education, marriage and early career
00:11:21 3 Civil War
00:12:55 3.1 Buell's command
00:16:34 3.2 Chief of staff for Rosecrans
00:19:24 4 Congressional career
00:19:33 4.1 Election in 1862; Civil War years
00:24:56 4.2 Reconstruction
00:28:04 4.3 Tariffs and finance
00:30:31 4.4 Crédit Mobilier scandal; Salary Grab
00:35:09 4.5 Minority leader; Hayes administration
00:39:25 4.6 Legal career and other activities
00:41:30 5 Presidential election of 1880
00:41:40 5.1 Republican nomination
00:44:24 5.2 Campaign against Hancock
00:46:30 6 Presidency, 1881
00:46:40 6.1 Cabinet and inauguration
00:49:57 6.2 Reforms
00:51:48 6.3 Civil rights and education
00:53:25 6.4 Foreign policy and naval reform
00:55:38 6.5 Administration and cabinet
00:55:48 7 Assassination
00:55:57 7.1 Guiteau and shooting
00:59:43 7.2 Treatment and death
01:06:15 8 Funeral, memorials and commemorations
01:09:32 9 Legacy and historical view
01:13:06 10 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your listening skills
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death by assassination six and a half months later. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the Senate seat once elected president. He was the first sitting member of Congress to be elected to the presidency, and remains the only sitting House member to gain the White House.Garfield was raised by his widowed mother in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm. He worked at various jobs, including on a canal boat, in his youth. Beginning at age 17, he attended several Ohio schools, then studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating in 1856. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and served as a member of the Ohio State Senate (1859–1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga. He was first elected to Congress in 1862 to represent Ohio's 19th District. Throughout Garfield's extended congressional service after the Civil War, he firmly supported the gold standard and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, but later favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for freedmen.
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Senator-elect Garfield attended as campaign manager for Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and gave the presidential nomination speech for him. When neither Sherman nor his rivals – Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine – could get enough votes to secure the nomination, delegates chose Garfield as a compromise on the 36th ballot. In the 1880 presidential election, Garfield conducted a low-key front porch campaign, and narrowly defeated Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock.
Garfield's accomplishments as president included a resurgence of presidential authority against senatorial courtesy in executive appointments, energizing American naval power, and purging corruption in the Post Office, all during his extremely short time in office. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judicial appointments, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice. He enhanced the powers of the presidency when he defied the powerful New York senator Roscoe Conkling by appointing William H. Robertson to the lucrative post of Collector of the Port of New York, starting a fracas that ended with Robertson's confirmation and Conkling's resignation from the Senate. Garfield advocated agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African Americans. He also proposed substantial civil service reform, e ...
Viral Plumber Who Dove Into Sewer to Fix Pipe Gets Free Jeans For a Year
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The Sixty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: The Forest: America in the 1830s, Part 2
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Jesse Winchester - Mississippi You're On My Mind
James Ridout Jesse Winchester Jr. (May 17, 1944 – April 11, 2014) was an American-Canadian musician and songwriter. He was born and raised in the southern United States. Opposed to the Vietnam War, he moved to Canada in 1967 to avoid military service and began his career as a solo artist. His highest-charting recordings were of his own songs, Yankee Lady in 1970 and Say What in 1981. He became a Canadian citizen in 1973, gained amnesty in the U.S. in 1977 and resettled there in 2002.
Winchester was best known as a songwriter. His works were recorded by many notable artists, including Patti Page, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett, Joan Baez, Anne Murray, Reba McEntire, the Everly Brothers and Emmylou Harris. A number of these recordings achieved positions on various charts.
Winchester was born at Barksdale Army Air Field, near Bossier City, Louisiana, and raised in northern Mississippi . Winchester was one of three children born to James Ridout Winchester Sr. (1917-1962) and Frances Ellyn Manire Winchester (1920-2010). Through his father's side, he is part of the Lee family of Virginia (Henry Lee II and Richard Henry Lee were two of his 4th-great-grandfathers). In 1952, after a heart attack left his father unable to farm, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he graduated from Christian Brothers High School in 1962 as a merit finalist, a National Honor Society member and the salutatorian of his class. He graduated from Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1966. Upon receiving his draft notice the following year, Winchester moved to Montreal, Canada, to avoid military service. I was so offended by someone's coming up to me and presuming to tell me who I should kill and what my life was worth, he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1977.
Winchester began playing guitar in bands while still in high school. He played in Germany during college study abroad and after graduation. Upon arriving in Quebec in 1967, he joined a local band, Les Astronautes. He also began writing songs, which he performed as a solo artist at the Montreal Folk Workshop and at coffeehouses throughout eastern Canada, adding impetus to a revival in folk music that was taking place across Canada. Under the auspices of the Band's Robbie Robertson, another Canadian, Winchester began his recording career in 1970 with a self-titled album released on the Ampex label.
Bay Circuit Trail Bedford MA Part 4: Mary Putnam Webber Wildlife Preserve.
The Mary Putnam Webber Wildlife Preserve is along the Reformatory Branch segment of the Bay Circuit Trail located a bit east of the Route 62 Parking lot.
It features a field ecotone slowly becoming woods in addition to portions given over to maturing oak copses. It is still in the alder scrub and shrub phase.
It appears to be a bit neglected since the recession. When I was there in 2007, it was well maintained.