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...

The Friends of Prospect Lake welcomes our guest blogger Susan Winston. A local psychotherapist and swimming enthusiast, Susan has been...

By Peter Goldberg, Board Member of the Friends of Prospect Lake If you live in Egremont, Alford, Great Barrington and Sheffield your life...

The Friends of Prospect Lake (FoPL) is an organization of local residents both full- and part-time, all interested in the health and uses...

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...

Photo courtesy of Robert Kroninberg As spring comes into its own, so does Prospect Lake. Snowy vistas and frozen sports are all well and...

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...

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...

Many years ago, a student asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture....

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...

Our guest blogger this month is Leslie Alfin, native Berkshire Area resident currently living in London with her husband Peter Horsfall....

Photo courtesy of the family of Chuck Houghton Our guest blogger for July is Marj Wexler. The mission statement of the Friends of...

Face masks used to be something for children hustling for candy on Halloween, the tool of train/bank robbers in Western movies, or the...

Photo courtesy of Genis Melendez-Delaney The primary focus of FoPL (the Friends of Prospect Lake) is the management and control of...

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” –...

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...

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...

Photographs of the lake can show some real beauty, especially in the autumn when the trees around the lake display their cascading,...

To the surprise of some and to the satisfaction of many, little Prospect Lake supports lots of different kinds of fish. There are...

This past summer (2019) has been a good one for Prospect Lake. The survey and treatment of the lake took place considerably later than in...