The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Clark Road looking west, May 8, 2008

This is my old home place, the farm I grew up on, the place I left to begin these winter journeys to the southwest.

Orchard Lot camp, June 4, 2009

Red Rock is a rural hamlet near Chatham in Columbia County, New York.

• I used to camp in a few locations on what little I had left of the family farm
  • In the driveway by the house
  • Across the road where the barn once stood
  • On the 20 acre piece off Less Traveled Road
• Now, with the kind support of the friends who now own the place, I camp across the road where the barn once stood.
• Verizon cell phone service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
• Verizon EVDO service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
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Nights I've camped here

Words Get in the Way

Research shows that language suppresses visual memory, This is called verbal overshadowing and is a well-established phenomenon .... For example, in one study people watched a short videotape of a bank robbery, then spent twenty minutes doing something unrelated. Then one group spent five minutes writing down everything they could remember about the bank robber's face, while the other group did an unrelated task.

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