Through The Garden Gate
July—The Bugs Have Arrived! By Leslie Watkins Gardens are looking lush and beautiful and attracting plenty of admiring glances from garden tour groups and now, pests. Cabbage white butterflies, tomato hornworms, red lily leaf beetles, Japanese beetles, slugs and snails to name a few. Hand picking, applying nontoxic pesticides, and setting baits are all useful […]
It’s Only Natural—A Walk Up Stoneman
Merging ecology and history By Hans M. Carlson A black squirrel runs across Canaan Mountain Road as I walk north toward the intersection of Steep Road and toward the Iron Trail up Canaan Mountain. I see this squirrel regularly, just north of the Great Mountain Forest (GMF) offices, and it always surprises me a little. […]
Through the Garden Gate
by Leslie Watkins “What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade”. –Gertrude Jekyll, On Gardening If you have been keeping on top of your gardens […]
Lime Rock Park Gears Up for Seventh Decade
By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo Driving down sleepy Route 112 on a weekday afternoon in May, the average motorist would never know that Lime Rock Park is absolutely humming with activity. I, for one, expected the track office to contain one or two part-time workers and the grounds to be relatively empty. Not exactly–the small track […]
Botelle Spring Concert and Art Show
Botelle School’s spring concert tok place on Monday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. and Tuesday, May 19 at 10 a.m. Al fourth, fifth and sixth grade students have the opportunity to join in the performing groups. This year, 42 out of 46 eligible students chose to participate. Pictured above is Ashley Bianchi instructing the woodwind, […]
Botelle Beat—June 2015
by Matt O’Connell The Botelle sixth graders enjoyed a four-day trip to Cape Cod during the first week in May that included a whale watch, and visits to Nauset Lighthouse, Coast Guard Beach, Monument to Our Forefathers and Plimoth Plantation. In addition, they explored a Coast Guard base, the Coast Guard Heritage Museum, and the […]
Norfolk’s Weather—April 2015
From Deep Snow to Black Flies By Russell Russ Spring finally arrived in April. It’s amazing to think that in just this one month we went from maple syrup season, 16-inches of snow on the ground and all ponds fully iced over to springtime warmth with peepers and black flies. Syrup season was over […]
Ellen Griesedieck’s Mural Project Celebrates the American Worker
By Ruth Melville Ellen Griesedieck thinks big. Her latest project has been 15 years in the making and is five stories tall. Griesedieck is the artist and driving force behind the American Mural Project. The three-dimensional mural, designed as a tribute to the working people of the United States, will eventually be 120 feet long, […]
Norfolk’s March Weather
Another Cold Month, but Springtime Is Near By Russell Russ This winter and early spring continued to be cold, very much like last year. The big weather related news this March was the unprecedented water line and sewer line freeze-ups that occurred all over Norfolk and in surrounding towns. The depth of the frost was […]
Botelle Beat
By Principal Matt O’Connell On April 10, Botelle was jumping to the beat of great music for a great cause. Our PE teacher Mr. Anderson organized a Jump Rope-A-Thon to benefit the American Heart Association. Our staff and parent volunteers helped run the jump rope stations—and and parent volunteers provided healthy snacks of cut-up fruit. […]
