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Autumn Beauty
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Like these beauties on Mapleton Avenue, our autumn color was great this year (in spite of the drought.)
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Here a Gobble, There a Gobble
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When we were growing up, on a blustery November morning, my dad loaded all of us kids up in the car to go visit Raisbeck’s turkey farm on the west side of town.
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Many Choices Offered
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First Selectman Melissa Mack and her family visited the Suffield Farmers’ Market in early September at a time of considerable choice among available produce.
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Shade Tobacco Limited
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If you have lived in Suffield since the mid 20th century, you may have noticed the decline in acres of shade tobacco grown.
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Bringing Home the Groceries
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Golfers on the green at Hole 1 are oblivious as this bear family treks across the Suffield Country Club in mid September, with Momma and her bird seed loot followed by three cubs.
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Friending a Skunk
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As the days get shorter, I need to get psychologically prepared to say goodbye to some of my animal companions.
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Spearing Broadleaf
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In a traditional Suffield late-summer activity, these farmhands are spearing a healthy crop of broadleaf and loading the lath on a tobacco rack to be hauled off to the curing sheds.
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The Busy Life of the Insomniac
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I come from a long line of insomniacs. Growing up, after tossing and turning for hours, my dad would make at least one nightly pilgrimage into the kitchen in search of a little snack to help him sleep.