John Burroughs's writing cabin "Slabsides"

Slabsides

My wife, Lyn, and I inside Slabsides

Talking with Joan Burroughs, descendant

 

John Burroughs's Woodchuck Lodge, near Roxbury, in the Catskills

At Woodchuck Lodge

My great-grandfather, "Sunny Jim" Byard, (seated in rear) at Woodchurch Lodge with John Burroughs, Clara Burrus, and others

On Burroughs's boyhood rock, where he spent many hours as a boy, with his grave behind me

 

Thomas Cole's house in Catskill, New York

Cole's house

 

Frederic Church's Persian-style mansion near Hudson, New York

Standing in the door to Olana

 

George Perkins Marsh's home, in Woodstock, Vermont, formerly owned by Laurence Rockefeller

The house

View from the porch over Marsh's former estate, now managed according to his principles

 

Jonathan Edwards's church in Northampton, Massachusetts

First Church

 

On Mount Holyoke

Homage to Cole: The Oxbow