Mount Greylock

If you’ll allow me I’d like to annotate for listeners and readers the email I received from my friend Bruce ahead of the hike we took up Mount Greylock in the Berkshires this week. What you need to know about Bruce is that at seventy-two years old he has the energy, physical stamina and lung capacity of the average twenty-year-old.

Dear WAMC Family,I can’t tell you how grateful we are to be able to ensure our future by buying the tower we have been on all these years. I’m talking…

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