I made my debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Aug. 1. I was guest of Director of Preservation Norton Owen in a Pillow Talk program in Blake’s Barn. The
STOCKBRIDGE â A guru of old-growth forests, Robert T. Leverett recalls first stepping into Ice Glen back in the early 1990s and thinking to himself, âOh, my God. This is the real deal.â
He declared it one of the most spectacular woodland stands in New England. But, today, he speaks with the funereal gloom of this misty-cloaked cleft just south of the village.
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âItâs sad when an icon of the Northeast forest is lost. Thatâs whatâs at stake here.â
â Robert T. Leverett, Florence-based co-founder of the Native Tree Society and co-author of âThe Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeastâ
Alexander Stuart, a forgotten land and cattle entrepreneur, once owned a Southwest Virginia “mountain empire” estimated at 70,000 acres and assets of more than $15 million in today’s values.