The property, which ecologists refer to as a biodiversity hub, includes a 43-acre pond, Dickerson Mountain (at 740 feet one of the highest peaks in the county), outcroppings, hills, brooks, vernal pools and swamps.
Her Republican-voting, golf-playing pensioners are a fine balance to Gwendolyn Brooks' seven pool-playing juvenile delinquents in the poem that inspired Murray's parody, a poem that could, itself, be read as a gentle poke in the ribs of the Beats.
$530,000 East Chestnut Hill Road 4-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath, 12-year-old contemporary; pool, brook on property, hilltop setting, 22 acres; taxes $4,698.
"My understanding is that [the new proposal] will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool," Brooks said.
Mr. Dvorak, the fly angler, caught and released 10 brook trout in the pool behind the beaver dam.
The brook runs through several pools creating a cascade of six waterfalls that culminates in a 15m-high column of white water called the Kozjak slap (waterfall).
As the director of marketing and communications at Manhattanville College, Ms. Brooks uses a rotating pool of six Manhattanville students "who all miss their younger siblings, their pets, a refrigerator that they can open and close at will and a sofa".
Turning soddenness into a virtue, the plan would channel water into dozens of brooks and reflecting pools, waterfalls and wetlands.
The 30-year-old woman was walking the dog about 8 30 a.m. along a secluded, wooded pathway near the Loch, a spring-fed brook that flows into a pool near the Great Hill in the northwest section of the park.
We paddled up Mud Brook for about a mile before realizing that we didn't have time to visit its upper reaches, to get to where -- I had been told by Jason -- it narrows and is crossed by beaver dams that create holding pools for wild brook trout.
(A "golden shovel," a form that the poet Terrance Hayes created in honor of Brooks, is a kind of poem in which the final words of each line come from another, source poem; it is also the name of the Chicago pool hall where Brooks observed the truant young men she would write about in "We Real Cool," a poem that sounds like jazz: "We / Sing sin. We / Thin gin. We / Jazz June. We / Die soon").
