Kudos to Mary!!   Perhaps some others saw the wonderful Profile interview with Mary by VPT's Fran Stoddard a few weeks back.  

Ruth Stewart

E. Dorset, VT

 
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 09:09:45 -0500
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> Subject: [VTBIRD] Book award for Mary Holland
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>     Naturally Curious:  A Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England , a book written and largely photographed by Mary Holland, former compiler of the Vermont Bird Alert, recently won the 2011 Nature Guidebook category of the National Outdoor Book Awards. 
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>     If you haven't yet read Mary's unique guide you owe it to yourself to do so. 
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>     Ed Hack
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>     Stockbridge,Vt.