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
- Friday, August 7, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, July 10, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, June 12, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, June 19, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, June 26, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, June 5, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, May 15, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, May 22, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Friday, May 29, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, August 10, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, August 17, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, July 13, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, July 20, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, July 6, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, June 15, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, June 22, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, June 8, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, May 11, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Monday, May 25, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, August 1, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, August 15, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, August 22, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, August 8, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, July 18, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, July 25, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, July 4, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, June 13, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, June 20, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, June 6, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, May 16, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, May 23, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, May 30, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Saturday, May 9, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, August 16, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, August 2, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, July 12, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, July 19, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, July 26, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, July 5, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, June 28, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, June 7, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, May 10, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, May 17, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, May 22, 2011 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, May 24, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Sunday, May 31, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, August 13, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, August 20, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, July 2, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, July 30, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, July 9, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, June 4, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, May 27, 2010 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Thursday, May 28, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
Give it, Give it All, Give it Now
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.