Time and change; a rural reawakening? Thomas S. Wermuth’s Rip Van Winkle’s Neighbors: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle; Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward.

Stargazing on a winter’s night; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther; Ann Charters’s A Portable Sixties Reader; and Richard Hinkley Allen’s Star Names.

The Cold Spring Farmers’ Market; spring lambs at Glynwood; Christopher Rand’s The Changing Landscape.

The inaugural entry in my new diary from Putnam County, New York; James Howard Kunstler’s The Geography of Nowhere.