Protecting Land and Preserving Heritage. Forever.
by George Jacobi When it happened, I couldn’t have been more than 12, but it’s among my most vivid memories of that age. Services had ended in our little stone Episcopalian church and congregants were in the small parking lot, chatting and preparing to drive home. A commotion attracted me and my brother. As a […]
By George Jacobi On my way to meet co-steward Marian Matthews at Joshua’s Trust Byles Sanctuary I was delayed by my fourth turtle rescue of the week. It was another Painted Turtle, and thankfully didn’t involve any more vehicular drama. One earlier stop was a Spotted Turtle, a creature of DEEP CT special concern. The […]
By George Jacobi In Fall of 2022 I watched in awe as two ordinary guys moved a rock that weighed maybe a ton. It took only five minutes with a grip hoist to drag it twenty feet across the Fenton River and lock in place a huge tree trunk that they had already positioned–using physics […]