Maple stuff and more

I’ve lost any moxie I woke up with this morning after doing taxes (self-employment tax suckssssss), so here’s a quick run-down of some journalism things that have happened.

1. One of my favorite editors sent me an email titled “Maple Syrup and Haircuts” and obviously I said yes to whatever it contained. I hung out in a sugar shack on a boiling day in the backwoods of Pownal and did the same in a Bennington barber shop and both are portraits (and include actual photo-portraits, see below) of Vermont-y places.

2. I’ve been contributing somewhat more frequently to the Berkshire Eagle, including these two stories about last month’s Youth Climate Strike in Williamstown and a survey of new businesses in the county. My favorite photos, one of the strike’s organizers Karen McComish, left, and Cathy McPartland, right, helping third grader Max Holey use a megaphone, and another of Steam Noodle Cafe owner Phornpimon "Jem" Ezinga, are below.

3. Lastly, I’ve put up some new Finding America photos. Meet Sheri, the woman who painted her Stockbridge house pink and devoted it to the Sacred Heart: