The property includes 600 acres of forest, ridgelines and wildlife habitat, according to Foothills Land Conservancy.

If you ask the psychologists, they'll tell you that humor is a defense mechanism, a buffer between ourselves and the painfulness of reality. I'm not sure that's actually true — I think of laughter as ...

Martha Leb Molnar is a Vermont-based author who writes often about the natural world. Her most recent book is “Playing God in the Meadow: How I Learned to Admire My Weeds.” I was giving a talk about ...