Muscato's Musings
Back to Nature in Easton
We need to get back to nature before it is too late.
We should all be grateful for positive and fortunate accidents, no matter how modest or profound and positive and fortunate are these accidents. So on Tuesday, I am at North Easton Savings Bank, the branch across from the North Easton Post Office. And I spied on a table a book, which I picked up and inspected. Alas, this book, and the message it conveyed, provided me just the right follow up/sequel to the column I wrote which was published in this space on Monday. Yes, I am grateful for the accident. Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder is the name of the book I discovered lying on the table at the bank. It was published in 2005, and written by Richard Louv Last Child In the Woods is a national …
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Ross A. Muscato
8:29 pm on Monday, September 17, 2012
Hi Uma -- thanks for the comment. I did not know that book was there as a result of an Ames Free Library initiative. And I wish I had talked to you before writing the column, because I most surely would written about the collaboration of the library with the NRT and the Childrens Museum, and the other organizations. Well, I will have to write about that soon in a column. Ross more ›