Figure 1 – Light in the Forest, Punkatasset Pond, October 17, 2020 Concord, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2020.

The saga of autumn continues; so I am offering “Light in the forest,” an image that I took at the pond by Punkatasset Hill in Concord, Massachusetts with my iPhone last Saturday. The magic is, as ever, in the light. Sunlight from the pond penetrates the Woods and lights up both the canopy and the turning ferns as well. The hill was originally called Broad-topped Hill by the native Americans.  

In 1775, the Concord Minutemen took their positions on Punkatasset Hill, where they were met by reinforcements from other towns. The the smoke of militia supplies set ablaze by British troops in the center of Concord, and, as a result, Colonel Barrett led his militia down first to a hill only a few hundred yards from the Old North Bridge, and then to the Old North Bridge itself.

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