Walking Woodstock: Journeys Into the Wild Heart of A Famous Small Town

Will Nixon is a friend, who lives in Ulster County in Upstate New York. He came down to Brooklyn Reading Works to read in the Poetry Punch last year and I enjoyed his poems very much.

And now he's co-written a new called Walking Woodstock
Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town.

It might be just the thing for that someone on your gift list who loves Woodstock and Ulster County. Just a thought.

Michael Perkins and Will Nixon decided to walk across Woodstock, not just the modern town of busy roads but the older village of bluestone quarries, abandoned forest paths, and mountain views they had all to themselves. Walking Woodstock collects their adventures, many first published in the Woodstock Times, that ranged from the delights of finding spring flowers to the fears of a mountain rescue. Full of humor, history, friendship, nature, hikers' lore, and walkers' musings, these journeys reveal the wild heart that beats in all of us when we set forth to explore our home terrain on foot.

You can buy it here.