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Escape From New York City
September 2, 2014

There are no easy options when it comes to escaping the Big Apple and its madly turbulent crowds. I like to imagine the city as surrounded at all times by a series of concentric circles, or bubbles, characterized by a slowly decreasing level of overpopulation. The inner bubble is centered on Manhattan and within it, no hope subsists. There will be a mob no matter where one goes. The second bubble typically includes the five boroughs and while there are hotspots, it is usually possible to find relative peace in outer...

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Upper Delaware River, a Foraging Gig - Part 1
May 28, 2014

The Delaware River is born in the Catskills, two pristine mountain streams becoming the West and East branches that eventually merge just below the small town of Hancock, NY. The main river then swiftly flows south, flirting with the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, on its way to Philadelphia and the nearby ocean. Invited to spend last weekend by our friends Steve and Helen, we had booked a Zipcar for a couple of days and headed northwest along New Jersey's Palisades, through the...

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Surprise in the Bronx
May 10, 2013

While Marie has been involved with the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, first volunteering and most recently teaching foraging classes, she had never yet visited the New York Botanical Garden. And as for me, I can barely spell the word garden. So a few weekends ago, feeling adventurous and wondering how it was possible for us to have been in New York so long and not visited it, we ventured to the NYBG. The Harlem River, separating the Manhattan Island from the Bronx on the mainland, constitutes for us Brooklynites a boundary...

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