Orienteering is a sport that entails using navigational skills, a map, and compass to navigate from one point to another in unfamiliar terrain. Often in the form of a race, the goal is to find controls marked on a map.
When Bill Braine decided to write a novel, he didn’t have to look far to find a setting. “It’s intentionally set in this region,” he said when we met on a Saturday morning.
Tuesday was a big day for Mrs. Kelly Hogan’s third-graders at Willow Avenue School. For some of them, it was their first visit to Black Rock Forest. For all of them, it was the start of a year long research project.