charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

Kent CT

toxicity marker with Kent CT

post with Housatonic River with 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt 

along it's route...

a journey with two days... 

day 2...  7/16/18...

I have just opened a fundraising page with Patreon.com that I'm very excited about;

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12293898

please consider a contribution toward my river, stone & charcoal installation markings... and a like is as much appreciated...

...Thanks for your interest and support...

"Historically, the Housatonic River, and its Naugatuck River tributary, hosted the southernmost Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning runs. The Salmon Creek tributary of the Housatonic River may have been named for this salmonid which can reach up to 30 pounds (14 kg)."  ...

"The Housatonic River (/huse'tonik/ Hoos-e-TON-ik) is a river, approximately 149 miles (240 km) long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about 1,950 square miles (5,100 km²) of southwestern Connecticut into Long Island Sound Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut [and East of Hudson River watershed... we are all related.] Birds and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and present health risks" 

Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.

From circa 1932 until 1977, the river received PCB protection discharges from the General Electric (GE) plant at Pittsfield Massachusetts [much like the pollution record with GE/General Electric with PCBs and other contaminants with Hudson River with more clean up neccessary]. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a super fund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999. Most of the PCBs used in the United States during this period were made by Monsanto ^]Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and remediation has taken place, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. 

Additional remediation is planned. The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusets, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment. About 50% of all the PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs. Former filled oxbows are also polluted. 

Birds, such as ducks, and fish that live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can present health risks if consumed."  ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

Water is Life

~~~~~~~~

charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

West Cornwall CT

post with Housatonic River with 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt 

along it's route...

a journey with two days... 

day 2...  7/16/18...

I have just opened a fundraising page with Patreon.com that I'm very excited about;

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12293898

please consider a contribution toward my river, stone & charcoal installation markings... and a like is as much appreciated...

...Thanks for your interest and support...

"Historically, the Housatonic River, and its Naugatuck River tributary, hosted the southernmost Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning runs. The Salmon Creek tributary of the Housatonic River may have been named for this salmonid which can reach up to 30 pounds (14 kg)."  ...

"The Housatonic River (/huse'tonik/ Hoos-e-TON-ik) is a river, approximately 149 miles (240 km) long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about 1,950 square miles (5,100 km²) of southwestern Connecticut into Long Island Sound Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut [and East of Hudson River watershed... we are all related.] Birds and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and present health risks" 

Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.

From circa 1932 until 1977, the river received PCB protection discharges from the General Electric (GE) plant at Pittsfield Massachusetts [much like the pollution record with GE/General Electric with PCBs and other contaminants with Hudson River with more clean up neccessary]. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a super fund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999. Most of the PCBs used in the United States during this period were made by Monsanto ^]Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and remediation has taken place, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. 

Additional remediation is planned. The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusets, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment. About 50% of all the PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs. Former filled oxbows are also polluted. 

Birds, such as ducks, and fish that live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can present health risks if consumed."  ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

Water is Life

~~~~~~~~

charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

West Cornwall CT

post with Housatonic River with 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt 

along it's route...

a journey with two days... 

day 2...  7/16/18...

riding the waves with rMars/Fire with Earth/Cap leading in with rMer/Leo during 7/26, the following day a Full Moon/Water in Aqu/Air Full Lunar Eclipse with Sun/Leo/Fire, each at 4˚ with 4:23 PM EST... Moon cj rMars, South Node and sq Ura/Air & Ether with Tau/Earth... a lot of Fire and Water followed with Air is sizzling and steamy hot... aligning with Earth we remain rooted, reflective like a tree<>roots, re-creative and can be with courage to hear our truth and speak it with others with engaging understanding collectivity...
now as the planets move with their orbits and with new relational aspects, 
we too move with ours and with the laws of a universe enfolding...

...

I have just opened a fundraising page with Patreon.com that I'm very excited about;

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12293898

please consider a contribution toward my river, stone & charcoal installation markings... and a like is as much appreciated...

...Thanks for your interest and support...

"Historically, the Housatonic River, and its Naugatuck River tributary, hosted the southernmost Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning runs. The Salmon Creek tributary of the Housatonic River may have been named for this salmonid which can reach up to 30 pounds (14 kg)."  ...

"The Housatonic River (/huse'tonik/ Hoos-e-TON-ik) is a river, approximately 149 miles (240 km) long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about 1,950 square miles (5,100 km²) of southwestern Connecticut into Long Island Sound Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut [and East of Hudson River watershed... we are all related.] Birds and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and present health risks" 

Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.

From circa 1932 until 1977, the river received PCB protection discharges from the General Electric (GE) plant at Pittsfield Massachusetts [much like the pollution record with GE/General Electric with PCBs and other contaminants with Hudson River with more clean up neccessary]. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a super fund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999. Most of the PCBs used in the United States during this period were made by Monsanto ^]Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and remediation has taken place, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. 

Additional remediation is planned. The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusets, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment. About 50% of all the PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs. Former filled oxbows are also polluted. 

Birds, such as ducks, and fish that live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can present health risks if consumed."  ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

Water is Life

~~~~~~~~

charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

Falls Village CT

post with Housatonic River with 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt 

along it's route... Falls Village is the 12th site...

a journey with two days... 

day 2...  7/16/18...

riding the waves with rMars/Fire with Earth/Cap leading in with rMer/Leo during 7/26, the following day a Full Moon/Water in Aqu/Air Full Lunar Eclipse with Sun/Leo/Fire, each at 4˚ with 4:23 PM EST... Moon cj rMars, South Node and sq Ura/Air & Ether with Tau/Earth... a lot of Fire and Water followed with Air is sizzling and steamy hot... aligning with Earth we remain rooted, reflective like a tree<>roots, re-creative and can be with courage to hear our truth and speak it with others with engaging understanding collectivity... ~ride the Waves!~

...

I have just opened a fundraising page with Patreon.com that I'm very excited about;

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12293898

please consider a contribution toward my river, stone & charcoal installation markings... and a like is as much appreciated...

...Thanks for your interest and support...

"Historically, the Housatonic River, and its Naugatuck River tributary, hosted the southernmost Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning runs. The Salmon Creek tributary of the Housatonic River may have been named for this salmonid which can reach up to 30 pounds (14 kg)."  ...

"The Housatonic River (/huse'tonik/ Hoos-e-TON-ik) is a river, approximately 149 miles (240 km) long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about 1,950 square miles (5,100 km²) of southwestern Connecticut into Long Island Sound Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut [and East of Hudson River watershed... we are all related.] Birds and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and present health risks" 

Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.

From circa 1932 until 1977, the river received PCB protection discharges from the General Electric (GE) plant at Pittsfield Massachusetts [much like the pollution record with GE/General Electric with PCBs and other contaminants with Hudson River with more clean up neccessary]. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a super fund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999. Most of the PCBs used in the United States during this period were made by Monsanto ^]Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and remediation has taken place, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. 

Additional remediation is planned. The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusets, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment. About 50% of all the PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs. Former filled oxbows are also polluted. 

Birds, such as ducks, and fish that live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can present health risks if consumed."  ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

Water is Life

~~~~~~~~

I've just opened a fundraising page with Patreon.com that I'm very excited about;

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12293898 please consider a contribution toward my river, stone & charcoal installation markings...  and a like is as much appreciated... Thanks!...

riding the waves with rMars/Fire with Earth/Cap leading in with rMer/Leo during 7/26, today a Full Moon/Water in Aqu/Air Full Lunar Eclipse with Sun/Leo/Fire, each at 4˚ with 4:23 PM EST... Moon cj rMars, South Node and sq Ura/Air & Ether with Tau/Earth... a lot of Fire and Water followed with Air is sizzling and steamy hot... aligning with Earth we remain rooted, reflective like a tree<>roots, re-creative and can be with courage to hear our truth and speak it with others with engaging understanding collectivity... ~ride the Waves!~

...

post with Housatonic River with 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt along it's route... 

a journey with two days... 

day 2...  7/16/18...

charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

Ashley Falls MA

Colonel John Ashley was a leading citizen of the area, heading the local militia during the French and Indian War. In 1773 the Sheffield Declaration, a petition against British tyranny and manifesto for individual rights, was drafted in the upstairs study of the house. By the American Revolutionary War, Ashley was too old to participate militarily, but he was instrumental in developing the iron industry in nearby Salisbury, Connecticut for the war effort. In 1781, Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman, a slave in the Ashley household, won her freedom under the new state constitution through a celebrated 1781 state court battle that marked the end of slavery in the state. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_John_Ashley_House

"Historically, the Housatonic River, and its Naugatuck River tributary, hosted the southernmost Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) spawning runs. The Salmon Creek tributary of the Housatonic River may have been named for this salmonid which can reach up to 30 pounds (14 kg)."  ...

"The Housatonic River (/huse'tonik/ Hoos-e-TON-ik) is a river, approximately 149 miles (240 km) long, in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United States. It flows south to southeast, and drains about 1,950 square miles (5,100 km²) of southwestern Connecticut into Long Island Sound Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut [and East of Hudson River watershed... we are all related.] Birds and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and present health risks" 

Cleanup activity at one of the GE Pittsfield plant Superfund sites.

From circa 1932 until 1977, the river received PCB protection discharges from the General Electric (GE) plant at Pittsfield Massachusetts [much like the pollution record with GE/General Electric with PCBs and other contaminants with Hudson River with more clean up neccessary]. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a super fund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999. Most of the PCBs used in the United States during this period were made by Monsanto ^]Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and remediation has taken place, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. 

Additional remediation is planned. The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusets, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment. About 50% of all the PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs. Former filled oxbows are also polluted. 

Birds, such as ducks, and fish that live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can present health risks if consumed."  ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housatonic_River

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

Water is Life

~~~~~~~~

riding the waves with rMars/Fire with Earth/Cap leading in with rMer/Leo during 7/26, the following day a Full Moon/Water in Aqu/Air Full Lunar Eclipse with Sun/Leo/Fire, each at 4˚ with 4:23 PM EST... Moon cj rMars, South Node and sq Ura/Air & Ether with Tau/Earth... a lot of Fire and Water followed with Air is sizzling and steamy hot... aligning with Earth we remain rooted, reflective like a tree<>roots, re-creative and can be with courage to hear our truth and speak it with others with engaging understanding collectivity... ~ride the Waves!~

...

I have just opened a fundraising page with Patreon.com that I'm very excited about;

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12293898

please consider a contribution toward my river, stone & charcoal installation markings... and a like is as much appreciated...

...Thanks for your interest and support...

post with Housatonic River with 18 (#9) sites I marked/sketched/dreamt 

along it's route... 

a journey with two days... 

day 2...  7/16/18...

Sheffield is the first activation installation with the second day working with the Housatonic River...

it is the 10th activation...

charcoal from Peace Haven Farm Project circle fire Becket MA, stone, 

vegetation and Water & Earth cosmologies

Housatonic River

Sheffield MA

I'm working with charcoal on stones and rivers with Earth … with being with alignment and with the energies I sense with the space and place, the time of day and the seasons as continuum... these moments of drawing express marks of our collective connection with our universal matrix, or fractal... using charcoal speaks with my consideration that before I make a mark to do no harm and with action with accord... I use charcoal from fires local to each site... charcoal is elemental with all life and is a filtering and cleansing substance... as that I see my use with it as healing with homeopathic perspective applications and as symbolic energetically... rain, rivers, water, etc. transfer into, conjoining with the broader Waters... connecting with rivers, Water tables and the Oceans and Seas with Earth... the primal markings are of a pre literate and/or post literate form, 

similar to early writing and petroglyphs...

each drawing I've done along the rivers connect with the others... from the Deerfield and Connecticut rivers with MA & VT, Hudson River and Kinderhook Creek, Wallkill River, Roundout River, the Esopus and Catskill Creeks with NY, Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers with MA and CT, Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, all in the Northeast US... and the French Broad River with NC and TN, Big Laurel Creek, Swananoa River, Spring Creek, Paint Rock and Upper Shad Creeks with NC, Pigeon River, Nolichuckey and Tennessee Rivers and Holston Rivers NC & TN... when the hundreds of site markings, looking at the larger matrix on a map, and connecting the sites with line/energy a larger drawing emerges as a writing mark with our larger fractal selves/planet, Solar System and the outer galaxies...

this small scale large scale project needs funding and with support from the people and small royalties from Social Security I continue this journey... I have several Youtube videos, a blog, and Facebook page, www.gregpatchartwork.com that I maintain daily with new work with travels that I experience, with various writings about the place where the markings are placed and the photos are done... ie. Kinderhook (where the children play) Creek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5XgZGFTsNU ... I accept contributions, barter, trade and places to stay or tent along the way and as well "likes"... my work now calls me to complete Delaware River, Susquehanna River, Tennessee River and on to its' confluence with Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and on... it could also be that I travel to other lands to work along the rivers where my intentions of Love, Peace and CoCreativity are messages for the Earth and the Sky to see... come along with me with this journey!... I also encourage others to set marks with charcoal (cleansing elemental) or other natural markings to honor life...