A Zoom Presentation by co-director and naturalist Laurie Sanders

Every piece of land has a story to tell, and that’s definitely the case when it comes to a 15-acre wetland in Florence that includes Northampton’s only extant bog, Burt’s Pit. Not only is the site’s geology and ecology interesting, but its human history connects topics ranging from 19th-century agricultural trends and attitudes about slavery and abolition to the impact of out-of-control development and wetland regulation in the 20th century. There aren’t many places in America where 15 acres can connect so many different strands of history, but this is one of them.