Read The Range: A Book Club
Date and Time
Sunday Aug 23, 2026
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
Sunday, August 23. 9:30am - 10:30am.
Location
Mount Holyoke Summit House, Skinner State Park 10 Skinner State Park Road, Hadley, MA 01035
Fees/Admission
FREE
Contact Information
Monica Gildea, Park Interpreter
(413) - 586-0350
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Description
Join us at the historic Summit House for an engaging discussion of books inspired by nature, conservation, wildlife, and local history. Read the selected title in advance, then gather in the Summit House’s reading room for a relaxed conversation led by DCR staff. This accessible program offers a unique way to connect with the stories, landscapes, and history of the Mount Holyoke Range. For ages 16 and up. North Woods, by Daniel Mason, is a multi -centennial epic that tracks the history of a single plot of land and a yellow house in the forests of western Massachusetts. Rather than following one protagonist, the novel chronicles hundreds of years through a mosaic of interconnected inhabitants from Puritan fugitives and an apple-obsessed orchardist to a runaway slave and a modern-day biologist. Find the book at your local library!
