Following my column about Clare Kipps’ Sold for a Farthing (the story of a domesticated sparrow), I learned of another memoir of a “house bird.” The protagonist of That Quail, Robert lived in Orleans, Massachusetts during the 1960s with a couple named Tom and Mildred Kienzle. The author was a neighbor. Displacement of very small objects […]
BIRDS
THE SANTA FE DAM RECREATION AREA
My friend Dave, an artist and a walker, has an unerring nose for out-of-the-way spots to explore at leisure. A few months ago he started talking about a place with quarries and riverbeds and hiking trails by the confluence of the 210 and the 605. It was in Duarte, he said. He took the Gold […]