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The fire suppression control room in the basement of Prescott School is any youngster’s delight - full of pipes, valves, and complicated electronic controls, all in silver and fire-engine red. In this photo electricians from Brite Lite Electric install finishing touches on the sprinkler control system. Photo by Ruseell Harris

 

North American River Otter - (Lontra canadensis)
"When I first saw this, I thought it must just be one of the muscrats swimming around in the wetland behind my house. To my surprise, it swam right by me about 40 feet away without making note of me." Photo and text by Tom Murray

 
The Groton Herald was very fortunate to be granted a tour of construction progress of the Music Center at Indian Hill recently. This photo shows a larger view and a dramatic detail in the Main Performance Hall, where huge, gently curved laminated beams of southern yellow pine arch to the ceiling to...

Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) Even though a big chunk of its wing is missing, this bat was flying around keeping up with the other one over the wetland. Photo courtesy of Tom Murray

 

Photo courtesy of Tom Murray

by Mary J Metzger   It’s Climate Month. Here’s where we’ve been.      We are an Ice Age people. Our ancestors survived many large climate changes, as glaciers formed and melted every 100,000 years or so, driven by shifts in the earth’s orbit.      The last great freeze 70,000 years ago...

“I am happy to know that not all species are forced to need passports and visas to experience new lands.” - Rajesh, Random Cosmos. Photo by Steve Lieman, Indian Hill.

 

Bucolic Fall scene. Angus cattle take their ease at Gibbet Hill Farm. Photo by Steve Lieman

 

After fermenting, mead, like wine, is barrel-aged in oaken barrels. Like wine, mead continues to age and mature once bottled. Here, owner Rick Reault shows off some promising future meads as they gently age and add complexity.

 

‘I will adore the lord, omnipresent King, he that sustaineth heaven – monarch of all, he that maketh splendid water for all who are good, he that made and flourished each reward. May Maelgwn of Mona be drunk with mead and us likewise from frothing horns of finest, purest mead which bees...

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