School teacher Esther Labbee bought about 60 acres in 1965 and lived in the house there until  she passed away in 2012. She built a barn, drove a tractor and did everything herself, being a  very independent (and some say feisty) lady. She tended her animals and gardens for many years,  living a simple, quiet […]

At four AM the night sparkles. The full moon is low enough to cast reflective glitter on the inch of eerie blue snow in my yard. Snow is frozen (crystallized) water vapor. Yes, it’s a gas turned right into a solid – fallen from the sky. A “blizzard” is defined as a severe snowstorm with […]

John Hankins led 5 other Trustees and Ruth, one of our sponsors and owner of NICABM, on a walk on two of our properties that are close together. We parked in the Mansfield Public Library parking lot on route 89, right by the trailhead for Bradley-Buchanan Woods, a 25 acre wooded preserve and one of the […]