Squirrels and season

“Squirrels from treetops listen to

pine wind song. Such overtures of

the season come again and again….’’

-- From “Squirrels in Wind Pine,’’ by David Kherdian, who lives in Florence, a village in Northhampton, Mass. Because it had a thriving silk industry in the 19th Century, the village was named in 1852 after Florence, Italy, for its own thriving silk trade.

A classic breakfast-all-day diner in Florence