In Drunken Groundhogs We Trust

Spring has sprung says Chuckles, the furry little rodent from Connecticut. Six more weeks of winter our old man Phil proclaims out in Pennsylvania. Who’s right? If you ask me, both rodents are drunk and were clearly pre gaming for today’s festivities. I mean honestly, do they think we’re naive! We’ve stopped trusting those furry…

Road Trip: A Bucolic Step Back in Time to Hancock Shaker Village

This past weekend, while searching for new places to explore, I decided after hearing so much about it, that it was time to head on up to the Berkshires of western Massachusetts and explore the infamous Hancock Shaker Village, located right in Pittsfield. It’s a village that is known as the city of peace, and…

In Groundhog We Trust

We are a nation built on trust. We trust our meteorologists to predict the weather everyday out of the year, yet one day a year we put our trust into something that comes out of a hole from a long winters nap to predict whether or not we will have an early spring. Today, we again put…