TRR photo by Ed Wesely The barn, offices and library buildings at Genesis Farm, near Blairstown, NJ, display a solar array in the foreground that generates enough electricity to service them.

August sojourn

This August, I took a sojourn of 17 days as a student in an “Earth Literacy” program at Genesis Farm in northern New Jersey. Situated a few miles southeast of the Delaware Water Gap, Genesis is a farming and educational center on 231 acres of cropland, wetlands, and forested slopes in rural Warren County.

Founder and director Miriam Gillis began her own sojourn there 26 years ago, soon after her Dominican religious order in Caldwell, NJ acquired the land and a few run-down buildings.

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Where are the trout?

“The only certain theory to hold about fly fishing for trout is that there are no certain theories about fly fishing for trout.”

—Hart Stilwell

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A good deed for the Delaware

DAMASCUS, PA—The Delaware River is a little safer from alien invaders after members of Boy Scout Troop #122 from Damascus worked to remove water chestnut, Trapa natans, from a private pond owned by Floyd Campfield Sr. located in Narrowsburg, New York on August 10.

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Also in this issue:

• Wayfarers on the Neversink