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Merrimac River Changes

Along the banks of the Merrimac River north of Boston, old mills have been converted into apartments, office space and museums. They still symbolize the past industrial glory of the area. But now a new power plant is slated to go in and commentator Jane Brox worries that the new industry will become obsolete before […]

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Dracut Water War

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A Different Cider

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The Pruner

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Jane’s Place: The Old Mail Road

Writer and Living On Earth commentator Jane Brox muses on a place with special meaning for her. A walk on the old mail road is produced by Sandy Tolan.

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Summer at the Farm Stand

Author and farmer Jane Brox senses fall is around the corner as she vends this summer’s bounty from her family’s farm stand in Dracut, Massachusetts. Sandy Tolan produces the Brox Farm segments.

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Early Land

Writer Jane Brox begins another growing season on her family’s Massachusetts farm  ? but this year without her Dad.

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A Farm in Winter

Author Jane Brox takes us on a tour of her family farm in Dracut, Massachusetts. Brox’s 85 year old father John Brox also figures into this prosaic passage through a farm in its wintry decline. Mr. Brox passed away the week before this story aired.

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