Stepping outside, she surveys the sun-gilded marsh, watching birds flit through backlit reeds. It's a vista she savors. "You don't know where in the world you are. It doesn't look like the Hudson Valley. It's exotic, like a savanna."
There might be tigers.
Ashley Mayne will appear in conversation with Carey Harrison on 11/7 at 4pm at the Golden Notebook, Woodstock.