Climbing Mt Mansfield |
 … as this poster in the bookstore window proclaimed, at 4:00 pm Peggy Shinn (whom I first met on a 1994 climbing expedition to Mt Elbrus in Russia) was giving a talk about her new book, Deluge: Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont’s Flash Floods, and How One Small State Saved Itself (University Press of New England, 2013). |