NORTHAMPTON — The Meadows are one of my favorite places to walk, daydream, write, and watch nature change in its numberless daily ways. A swath of agricultural land between Northampton’s downtown and the Connecticut River, they’re within easy walking distance of my home.
Wandering the Meadows, I regularly see red-tailed hawks, bald eagles, and northern harriers – long-winged predators that swing to and fro like giant boomerangs over the long grasses. There, I like to sit on the root system of a huge tree that juts from the riverbank, and watch small boats chug slowly past the Holyoke Range.
I was pleased to discover a new book of photographs of my walking haunts: “The Meadows,” by Stephen Petegorsky, available at Broadside Books… In Petegorsky’s images the Meadows become alien, fey, wild.
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