It started with an early morning text from our neighbor, Deborah. A bear had “disabled” one of her backyard bird feeders during the night. Still in bed on this bright, but cold, Sunday morning, I groggily listened to my wife, Julie, recount Deborah’s.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 12/13/2020 10:35:16 AM
When Meade Cadot was growing up in the unincorporated area of Greenville, Delaware, the town consisted of a railroad depot, a lumber store and a two-lane road.
By the time he was in high school, the places he would walk his dog or go birding had been transformed into housing developments.
“Seeing all my favorite nature walking places turned into housing developments, that had a big impact on me,” Cadot said.
The same thing happened to his grandparents’ dairy farm outside West Chester, Pennsylvania.
“I watched that whole area paved over,” Cadot said.
And it set Cadot, the longtime executive director of the Harris Center in Hancock who was recently honored with the organization’s Educator of the Year award at its 50th annual meeting, on a path to see that the natural places like he enjoyed as a child remain that way for future generations.