Orchid Sighted
In answer to your Concord Mystery question: I have seen Epipactus Helleborine. It appeared next to our driveway, in full sun, last year. This year it is a much larger plant and several more have appeared in the area, all in sun. They are blooming now in the Adirondacks.

I identified it and found information on it in "A Guide to Field Identification, Wildflowers of North America" (Golden); "A Field Guide to Wildflowers" (Peterson); and inn "Summer & Fall Wildflowers of New England (Dwelley). All three are great books.

I enjoyed your web page.
BSHass

Sadly, the grand specimin in the photos was not 3 weeks ago destroyed by the abutting homeowner. It was growing in a weedy margin between his lawn and the street and he covered the area with heavy landscape cloth and bark mulch to keep down the spreading growth of undesired plants.

It is a sad and snobby feeling we send to everyone...I guess Concord is the stereotype New England town everyone outside New England expects...unfriendly and unwelcoming.

How sad because we have so much to share and we have a responsibility to share it.
Shelley W. Amster, Concord

County Question
Hi, I need some info about your area. First, what county are you located in? Second, who is the county sheriff? The location and address. of the county seat? A non-emergency phone number for the sheriff's office, too.
Robert, Hamilton, MI

Remember the Longfellow poem about Paul Revere's Ride ("....to ride and spread the alarm to every Middlesex village and farm...")? We are in Middlesex County.

Our Town Clerk, Anita Tekle, tells us that "Middlesex County as a political/administrative entity was dissolved as of July, 1997. Responsibility for the Court House and prisons (formerly run by the county) was assumed by the State. Other responsibilities were either parceled out to the municipalities (e.g., dog licensing) or were turned over to private entitities to manage. Middlesex County as a geographic domain still exists -- i.e., each state is divided up into separate counties for political boundary purposes. As you probably know, the county structure is more significant in most other parts of the country where many functions are performed on a regional/county basis -- e.g. county sheriffs in lieu of local police departments. New England never had much use for county government, and it has long been perceived as an unnecessary (and costly) layer of government."
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