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Cheshire Lake canoe trip, Sept. 2024

By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, Sept. 22, 2024 outing – With friends Kelley and Eddie, I splashed and paddled around lower Cheshire Lake, the section between Berkshire village and the causeway that runs between Rt. 8 and Cheshire/Lanesborough Rd. It was somewhat of a trip down cinder-strewn memory alley, since I lived next to the lake for a few wild and crazy years of the first Raygun Admin.!

It was the first day of fall, and even though our annual leaf-borne extravaganza of color remains to be seen, what came into view from the vantage point of a canoe was as subtly beautiful as what soon will explode all around us. (click an image to slide through them all)

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