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Identifying Becket Trees in Winter

Bear-Bo-Baggins, and I love to meander in the woods for miles in all seasons, including black fly season and mid-winter. While the pup takes in all the smells, I mostly day dream as I walk, mentally working on my many to-do lists or untangling a design conundrum on one of

Fall Fowl Festival

Or are they headed to Canada since Canadian Thanksgiving has already come and gone? Why, indeed, are we seeing gaggles of gobblers right now?

Becket Welcomes Summer People

Becket’s year-round population swells as hundreds of urban and suburban dwellers who own or rent vacation homes arrive in town. Despite what we may think, this is not a 21st century phenomenon. On June 11, 1878, the Hinsdale Cornet Band paraded merrily down Becket’s main street playing popular music