Monthly Archives: July 2025

Walk the Charron Farm Preserve on August 9

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The Charron Farm Preserve, donated to the Attleboro Land Trust in 2023, will soon be ready to be opened to the public, although there is still a lot left to do. A walk will be held on the preserve on Saturday, August 9, at 9:00 am. The purpose of the walk is to provide a preview of the property, and to let you know about opportunities to help in the weeks to come.

Some of the tasks remaining are to plant grass in a water retention area, construct a split-rail fence, and install signposts along the trail.

Rain date for the walk is Sunday, August 10, at 1:00 pm.

Directions:
From downtown Attleboro, take County Street south for 3.8 miles.
Turn right onto Read Street and drive 1/2 mile.
Turn left onto Morse Avenue and drive 1/4 mile.
Turn into the gravel parking area on your right.

(Don’t rely on Google Maps, which mislabels part of Morse Ave. as Gillette Ave.)

Any cancellations due to weather will be posted on this website.

Summer Color

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Rhododendron thicket, Deborah and Roger Richardson Nature Preserve, 6/28/22

 


Deborah’s Garden, Deborah and Roger Richardson Nature Preserve, 7/14/18

 

Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton)

Lower Hayfield, Deborah and Roger Richardson Nature Preserve, 6/26/16

 

Great spangled fritillary (Speyeria cybele)

Lower Hayfield, Deborah and Roger Richardson Nature Preserve, 6/26/16

 

Common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)

Lower Hayfield, Deborah and Roger Richardson Nature Preserve, 7/16/16

 

Bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) alien

Anthony Lawrence Wildlife Preserve, 8/31/13

 

Spotted Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum)

Anthony Lawrence Wildlife Preserve, 8/31/13

 

Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

Shaw-Denham Memorial Forest, 8/20/13

 

The Photographic Legacy of Martha Nickerson

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Martha L. Nickerson was not only the donor of the 48 acres of land that is now the Nickerson Walking Woods Preserve.  Her life was filled with accomplishments.  She held a doctorate in education and served as a school librarian and teacher, not only in Attleboro, but at U.S. military installations around the globe.  On her travels she excelled at photography, capturing what she saw in color slides.  Those images are now in the care of artist Kalliope Amorphous, who first began posting them online in 2014 under the title “A Life in Kodachrome.”  She recently felt a renewed desire to share her appreciation for these amazing photographs.  The expanded online collection, now renamed “Midcentury Archive,” can be viewed at these locations:

https://midcenturyarchive.com/

https://www.instagram.com/midcentury_archive/

https://www.facebook.com/MidcenturyArchive

https://www.pinterest.com/midcenturyarchive/

 

An earlier version of the website can still be found here:

https://marthanickerson.wordpress.com/

 

This post first published 7/23/19