Dr William Russo

Casebook for Old Mill Circle Dr William Russo

LONG TIME AGO BOOKSA timeless tale of Nature unfolds among the small denizens of Mill Circle in Winchendon Springs. New adventures and more lurid tales of survival of fit and unfit emerge at the place where animals could partake of the Yellow Spring long ago, but where now spring water has dried up. You might call these tales of Old Mill Circle gruesome, or a version of New England grotesque. In its own cruel and harsh way, Nature torments a squirrel trying to cross electrical wires, but instead meets his Rubicon. A small frog plays dice with his life --the die say snake eyes. A hairy woodpecker sees the false berries of decoration and finds himself lured like a sailor by a siren. Hawks dispatch squirrels and chipmunks, leaving only small dogs for their dinner. And, birds find homes elsewhere as the 21st century puts its eerie mark on Old Mill Circle.