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Prospect Lake 2025 Annual Treatment
SOLitude Lake Management will be treating Prospect Lake on Wednesday, April 23 to control the growth of nuisance aquatic vegetation. The...
charlespelton4
Apr 141 min read


The Princess Catches the Worm
I say Princess, not because my daughter was born to royalty but because as a young adult, she has carved out an extraordinary life that...
Susan Winston
Sep 18, 20232 min read


IF YOU SEE A PINK CAP . . .
The Friends of Prospect Lake welcomes our guest blogger Susan Winston. A local psychotherapist and swimming enthusiast, Susan has been...
Susan Winston
Aug 13, 20232 min read


Prospect Lake Watershed: A sensitive ecosystem that touches all our lives.
By Peter Goldberg, Board Member of the Friends of Prospect Lake If you live in Egremont, Alford, Great Barrington and Sheffield your life...
Peter Goldberg
Jul 24, 20232 min read


Who We Are and What We're About
The Friends of Prospect Lake (FoPL) is an organization of local residents both full- and part-time, all interested in the health and uses...
Chet Delaney
Feb 13, 20222 min read


Fun Facts from Prospect Lake
Photo courtesy of Robin Goldberg Did you know …? Prospect Lake is basically a human artifact … man made. The dam at the north end of the...
Chet Delaney
Jan 10, 20221 min read


Out of the weeds...
Photo courtesy of Robert Kroninberg As spring comes into its own, so does Prospect Lake. Snowy vistas and frozen sports are all well and...
Chet Delaney
May 27, 20214 min read


ICE-pect Lake
It has brought back memories. In the small midwestern town in which this writer grew up, winter was defined by snow, at least to my...
Chet Delaney
Mar 12, 20212 min read


Keeping It Simple...
Photo courtesy of Peter Horsfall The epidemic stretches into the new year. Covid-19 morphed into the Pandemic of 2020 and is now about to...
Chet Delaney
Jan 5, 20212 min read


Seasonal Reflections
Many years ago, a student asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture....
Chet Delaney
Oct 29, 20202 min read


Lake-life in the time of corona.
Like everything else these days, Prospect Lake was in the grip of the coronavirus this summer. Life around the lake went on as usual in...
Chet Delaney
Sep 12, 20202 min read


Notes from Across the Pond: We are all very lucky.
Our guest blogger this month is Leslie Alfin, native Berkshire Area resident currently living in London with her husband Peter Horsfall....
Chet Delaney
Aug 1, 20202 min read


Your membership in THE FRIENDS OF PROSPECT LAKE... Why it is important.
Photo courtesy of the family of Chuck Houghton Our guest blogger for July is Marj Wexler. The mission statement of the Friends of...
Chet Delaney
Jun 20, 20202 min read


MASKING THE EFFORT
Face masks used to be something for children hustling for candy on Halloween, the tool of train/bank robbers in Western movies, or the...
Chet Delaney
May 1, 20202 min read


The Friends of Prospect Lake (FOPL)
Photo courtesy of Genis Melendez-Delaney The primary focus of FoPL (the Friends of Prospect Lake) is the management and control of...
Chet Delaney
Mar 30, 20202 min read


Prospect Lake is for the birds.
Our guest blogger for February is Peter Horsfall. I spend most of my time in London, but can’t wait to get back to what we call “home” –...
Chet Delaney
Feb 2, 20201 min read


Fresh starts and gentle reminders...
Our guest blogger for January 2020 is Leslie Alfin. Photo courtesy of the family of Chuck Houghton One of the things I love most about...
Chet Delaney
Jan 1, 20202 min read


The Lake as a Gift.
The season of gift giving is upon us, so it seems appropriate to think a bit about the kind of gift Prospect Lake is and the kinds of...
Chet Delaney
Dec 8, 20192 min read


Beauty at the lake … Beauty in the lake … Beauty from the lake
Photographs of the lake can show some real beauty, especially in the autumn when the trees around the lake display their cascading,...
Chet Delaney
Nov 1, 20192 min read


An abundance of fishes and ….
To the surprise of some and to the satisfaction of many, little Prospect Lake supports lots of different kinds of fish. There are...
Chet Delaney
Oct 1, 20191 min read
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