At the End of the Road: Reflections on Life in an Adirondack Valley

viii, 102 pp. This ten chapter memoir starts in 1990 when Ruth and Sandy Lamb undertook a retirement adventure that moved them from their lives as health professionals in the Boston area - Sandy was director of the Boston Health Department and Ruth was a nutritionist - to the southern Adirondacks. Their plan was to live simply in a valley deserted by people. At the heart of the story are the valley's creatures. How to settle in and observe them, without interfering unduly, became the challenge. Watching coyotes, wild turkeys, egg-laying turtles, migrating birds and butterflies and other wildlife immersed them in life's circular conundrum. Life becomes death and death becomes life.