Downtown Northampton A glimpse of paradise Stoddard House First Church Where Edwards House was #1 Where Edward’s House was #2 Pascommuck: the Great Awakening begins at the foot of Nonotuck Read this, too. The Meadows Rainbow Beach
Jonathan Edwards: Northampton as Paradise City How Northampton Became Paradise Thomas Aquinas believed paradise was not just in heaven; it was terrestrial—but impossible to get to. In the Summa Theologica, he wrote, “The situation of paradise is shut off from the habitable world by mountains, or seas, or some torrid region, which cannot be crossed; [...]
We’ll be comparing this year’s assessments with these, the ones we did last year. All watercourses achieved an status of “exceptional” water quality! We’re also assessing 6 new sites (click to see)! Sodden Brook, in Westhampton, near Hampshire Regional High School: Mill River in Northampton, at Baystate: Mill River in Haydenville, at Brassworks: Upper North [...]
If you love nature, and would like to know why, you’ll benefit from these four discussions about American Animism. We’ll explore the primary textual sources, and discover the basic concepts of, animism—the belief inherent in all religions that God is alive, in (and sometimes as) nature. My goal is to equip you with a historically-grounded [...]
In 1935, in the midst of the satyagraha campaign, Gandhi was looking for ways to help his people reject English capitalism. One of the ways was to teach them to eat weeds.* He liked purslane, a superfood loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, that is growing now here in the Nonotuck biome. Strew a handful into [...]
Perhaps you haven’t heard, but on Thursday it was reported that tea “from Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture had above-standard radioactive cesium levels.” Tokyo lies between Fukushima and Shizuoka, which means … some big news is being suppressed. You might ask why it’s being suppressed: the government is trying to prevent panic; maybe the people of Japan [...]
