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LINKS
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- The
Academy at Charlemont
- fastest-growing private school in western Mass - and why
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- Ann
Lee and the Shakers
in Ashfield, the only community that kept them from
persecution!
- Ashfield's
Biodiesel Project
- how
it started, how it began to grow and what happened to
it.
- See also
Tom's new site at
http://www.yellowbiodiesel.com/
and
his
Homestead
page at http://www.yellowbiodiesel.com/abouthomestead.htm
- Ashfield
Community
profile
(from the Franklin County website)
- The
Ashfield Pre-school
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thriving in its present home!
- Ashfield
Hardware and Supply
- but
a lot more than hardware! You gotta see to
believe!
- Ashfield
Historical Society
- and it's a long one!
- The
Ashfield News
- Ashfield's superb monthly newspaper
- Ashfield
Reminiscences: Bert,
by Bill Fitzgerald and My
Ashfield,
a child's recollections of Ashfield summers - by Mary Leue. Also
essays
by Phyllis Loomis. See also a poem, mostly about
Ashfield
roads.by
Mary. And send us your own writings about
Ashfield!
- Where
Geese Become Swans,
A
YEAR AT BROOK HOLLOW FARM,
by
Julia Ryan Meservy.
- A book of
moving, insightful essays written by a loving woman who has chosen
to become part of a farming family - detailing a year of her and
their life on a working western Massachusetts farm and her magical
experiences there. Originally published as separate stories in the
Ashfield News. $12.00
- Belding
Memorial Library
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under the management of our librarian, Anne Judson, a wonderful
village resource!
- Biodiesel
fuel
manufacture
- a facsimile of the website developed for a new and rapidly
growing business, Yellow PREMIUM Biodiesel - for a couple of years
the only outlet in the northeast for this revolutionary,
non-polluting fuel made from used cooking oil, developed by Tom
Leue - and what happened to it when the EPA got involved! (See
above (Ashfield's
Biodiesel Project)
for the details of its history).
- Phil
Buck's XPLORA
website - Ashfield's own global
adventurer/innovator
- Claydance
- Dawn and Dave Fessenden's pottery studio right on Main
Street!
- Down-To-Earth
Bookstore
- an
online bookstore of 42 titles, many of them of unique value, and
uniquely available here - on a wide variety of topics.
- Elmer's
Store
- its
creative resurrection by Margaret Keith and her partner Ron
Johnson, and its sad demise! Many Ashfield people are praying for
its re-resurrection!
- First
Congregational Church
- one
of our very important community gathering places - for church
suppers, for discussions, for plant sales in spring - for a
splendid book of recipes - and lots more!
- What's
ahead
for
Ashfield seniors?
- History:
A
Personal Impression/
- History:
A Look Back at Ashfield's
Past
- Homestead:
Tom Leue's septic system design/inspection business (see above for
Tom's biodiesel manufacture business
- Nolan's
Neighbors
- a
lot more than a convenience store - a village enterprise with a
heart!
- Our
Wastewater Treatment Plant
- a
nostalgic view of rosy hopes, and why it failed to do the job for
the village!
- Our
Wastewater Treatment Plant Story
continued
- a
pro-solar-aquatics view of what went wrong
- Our
Solar-Aquatics,
a balanced report that comes to much the same
conclusion!
- Paris
Press,
a distinguished small press run by Jan Freeman that specializes in
publishing the works of women of valor and elegance - Muriel
Rukeyser, Ruth Stone, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Jan Freeman hrself - and has received several
National Book Critics Circle Awards for Poetry
- Preschool
columns
by
Nancy Leue (from the Ashfield News)
- Purple
Panthers
(first renamed the Ashfield Senior Council, then allowed to die an
unnatural death ... alas for high hopes of an ideal support system
for village elders) ... but there's new hope for the dead, if
Ashfield's seniors want their own webpage! We could have one
called purplepanthers.com!! It's up to you.
- Sanderson
Academy
- the
new one
- Sanderson
Academy
- the old one, and what happened to it!
- Snowstorm
- Descriptions of life in the hills in winter.
- St.
John's
Episcopal Church
- Steve
Sauter's
Weather
Channel
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- Ashfield
websites and their URLs
- The Academy
at Charlemont: http://www.charlemont.org
- The Ashfield
page on the Massachusetts Department of Housing and
Community
Development:
http://www.state.ma.us/dhcd/iprofile/013.HTM
- Phil Buck's
website:
http://www.xplorainternational.com
- Dawn and
Dave Fessenden's pottery studio: http://www.claydance.com
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- Franklin
County's Ashfield Website:
http://www.co.franklin.ma.us/ashfield.htm
- Recipes from
Ashfield Homes Church Cookbook:
http://skreynolds.tripod.com/church/index.html
- Steve
Sauter's Weather
Channel:
http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/us_ma_ashfield.html
- Peter
Wiitanen's Town of Ashfield, Massachusetts Home
Page:
- http://www.javanet.com/~peterw/homepage.htm
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- Western
Mass. Web Guide:
http://www.wmwebguide.com
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