urbpan | Fungi Fair, Athol Massachusetts

After driving by the location three times I finally found the fungi fair. Inside the Millers River Environmental Center, an almost overwhelming aroma of cooking mushrooms accompanied Noah Siegel's presentation on beginning mushroom identifications. Participants had brought their mushrooms in to be identified, and laid them out on long tables out in the light of the beautiful day. I discovered that I only had to be about 20 miles out of Boston to see that fall was well under way in the rest of New England. Another 50 miles away from Boston, in the almost sickeningly quaint mill town of Athol, there was no doubt what season it was. Accordingly, I stopped at a farm stand to buy apples and corn.