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BERKSON:  Lady With Horse

LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Lady With Horse Terry Berkson, who has an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, lives on a farm outside Richfield Springs. His articles have appeared in New York magazine, the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, Automobile and other publications. I heard about Lady Ostapeck about 20 years ago at my friend Buddy Crist’s house on Angel Hill outside of Schuyler Lake. There was a picture hanging on his living room wall. It was of…
March 19, 2021

BERKSON: The Jumping Chicken Of Otsego County

LETTER from TERRY BERKSON The Jumping Chicken Of Otsego County Terry Berkson, who has an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, lives on a farm outside Richfield Springs. His articles have appeared in New York magazine, the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, Automobile and other publications. Got a call the other day from my friend Charlie in Brooklyn. He said that he was thinking of getting a couple of chickens to keep in his apartment so that he…
February 11, 2021

BERKSON: Talk About Coop d’Etats!

LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Talk About Coop d'Etats! Terry Berkson, who has an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, lives on a farm outside Richfield Springs. His article have appears in New York magazine, the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, Automobile and other publications. Early this spring, my reigning rooster, Geezbrook, who fathered almost all of this year’s egg-laying rookies, was challenged and defeated by one of his sons. When I arrived on the scene, the old man…
January 21, 2021

BERKSON: ‘Bootlegging Hermits’ Life Rich As Renaissance Man’s

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December 17, 2020

BERKSON: With A Slice Of The Shovel

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November 19, 2020
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