The pianist Gilbert Kalish and Priscilla Lee, a cellist ardent and clear, gathered in reams of silky sound with little silver tacks of crisply placed dissonance.
Few festivals have surroundings as appealing as End of the Road, a lovingly put together event on the hilly border between Wiltshire and Dorset where you can play table tennis in a clearing, gather round a piano in the woods and spot peacocks pecking their way across the grass.
Ms. Lee said that neighbors told her that its tall redwoods had been cleared to gather lumber for the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, and something, perhaps its remote location, had kept people from putting a house there since.
It would create a common-sense filter on initiatives cleared to gather signatures.
On clear nights, stargazers gather in clearings at trailheads near the park's visitor centers.
Tensions hit their peak in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, late Saturday night when police officers armed with military equipment tried to clear those gathered for a demonstration from the streets and highway. .
The experimental forest was dedicated 50 years ago, and Colver and others who have worked on science projects or helped construct buildings and clear trails gathered there this month to celebrate the achievements.
The doctors cleared Gathers to play on Dec. 21.
