Bulkeley, Morgan, Jr.

Morgan Bulkeley, Sr., was born a Connecticut Yankee in Hartford in 1913. Upon graduating from Yale University in 1936, he lived a Thoreavian year in a cabin on the shores of Plantain Pond in the tiny hilltop town of Mount Washington. Five years later, he came back to the mountain and settled down to life as a self-sufficient farmer, raising a family and always deepening his knowledvge and love of nature. He worked, too, as a writer and poet, and studied with Robert Frost at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. In the early 1960s he began to write the Our Berkshires column for the Berkshire Eagle...