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Saturday, November 6, 2010
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This past summer, the Hudson Valley was dry and hot. Ponds disappeared, turning beautiful vistas into tableaux of mud. Turtles abandoned a log beached in waterless ooze. Fewer insects meant fewer birds and dragonflies. A catastrophe, albeit of a minor sort when thought of against the world at large.
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