If the weather the day before Halloween is at all cooperative and the showers that the long-range forecast currently predicts fail to materialize, I’ll be meeting a group of acolytes in a Stonington graveyard — of course we’ll be convening amidst the spirits — for a walk program that, for me, has been especially challenging to create. Several years ago, the Avalonia Land Conservancy, the venerable southeastern Connecticut organization I’ve been leading natural history treks for these many years, asked me to expand my offerings to include people who had, for any number of reasons, been too often excluded from the wild.

You’re probably sadly familiar with one particularly horrible example of an African American named Christian Cooper who in 2020 was threatened with arrest in New York City’s

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