Photo exhibit showcases local forests in North Adams
NORTH ADAMS -- The forests and mountains of New England are a big part of why Robert Campanile, forest and reservation supervisor at Western Gateway Legacy State Park Visitors Museum in North Adams, came to the Berkshires in 2000. His inamorata for nature and for museums also has inspired an show at the museum, titled "The High and the Tremendous: Forests of Mohawk and Monroe."
Campanile is a native of New York Town, where he worked at the American Museum of Natural Experience for 10 years, learning about everything from astronomy to biology. He later worked as a intriguer at various museums in and near the Berkshires before coming to Legacy State Park in 2008.
"To live in New York and to persist here, the difference obviously is that everything I studied in New York now I’m seeing first-ovation," he said. "I’m living with a forest within easy reach, with a mountain nearby Š I’ve been like a kid in a toy bank."
Preparation for "The High and the Mighty" began last August, when Campanile
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