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A writer’s bearings
Clayton Collins
This fall’s significant, simultaneous wildfires were new to Massachusetts. We usually get our reds and golds in a gentler way.
The Monitor’s Mackenzie Farkus until recently called the commonwealth’s heavily wooded west, where the Butternut Fire burned, home. So she hopped into her hatchback.
“I immediately knew where to go and who might make for good interviews,” Mackenzie says. She drove out to the Berkshires, dodging eight deer and a porcupine, to lead a team report and help us find the broader story in a local event.
