Warren Connecticut

Our property off of Town Hill Road contains an old foundation referred to on the survey map at the “Shove Homestead”.

I’d appreciate any info on this old Warren family and details regarding the family’s home (now just a cellar hole, well, and enclosed “yard” surrounded by stonewalls).

Thanks,

Jed Struckus

Jim Richardson and Charlie Geyer at the Warren Fall Festival, October, 2003.

By Dr. Everett Vreeland

The above category holds many critters at this writing. Road kill numbers are way up now involving young skunks, young coons, possums, and woodchucks. Some seek winter quarters and all are seeking food. Swallows are lining up on wires with soon to be migration looming and its accompanying obvious excitement. Small groups of small birds new to this area stop to feed on their journey. Kinglets, I believe, though they are frenetic enough that I cannot see them readily. Many people have spoken of the increase in deer numbers but I believe it is a normal population drawn forth to harvest the newly falling apples that they love. Separate groups come daily to my prolific wild trees.

I cover a lot of ground in the northeast and a memorable happening is everywhere. I’m referring to the great harvest revealed by multiple road stands. The food value is obvious but more evident are the startling colors there. Red tomatoes, yellow squash, orange marigolds, I think, and pumpkins set off by brilliant “mums.” I presume that early colors of blossoms attract pollinators and late colors of fruits attract creatures to eat them and thereby assist in the spreading of seeds - accidents preserving species.

Unfortunately in my life, I have been witness to the sometimes shocking meeting at the interface between the natural world and our developing technology. It all started with an Angus steer that fell into a cistern. Payback was a rudely altered water supply for the farm. Next was a series of horses in swimming pools (also rudely altered). One barn fire caused by a horse chewing on Romex electric cable plus a pony killed by standing in wet mud containing a live cable. Pet coons killed in dish washers, dogs and children dying in sun baked cars, kittens trapped and killed in clothes dryers. Sadly enough dogs do die flying out of pickups and they do get fatally hung by choke collars.

All of the above is caused by a widening gulf between modern man and the natural world Also, people, searching for status, moving species naturally selected to certain climates around the face of the earth and those species suffer. Scary trend.

I am sorry for the brevity of this but, happily, my life is currently very full.

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