In the 1920s, government agents abandoned members of the Brown Family in a remote valley traversed by the upper Hoolock River (a pseudonym). The Browns were descendants of European immigrants whom the government agents thought worthy of isolation in the canyons and meadows of the Hoolock River. For the last century countless generations of the Browns have thrived in the harsh environs of the Hoolock River. Brutally cold winters, flooding Spring snowmelt, dry, hot summers and countless piscatorial hunters have not deterred the members of the Brown Family who persist today throughout the canyons and meadows of the Hoolock River, albeit formally with the moderate protection of government agents. Unfortunately, times change and the minds of government agents who for a century protected members of the Brown Family have changed their tune. New migrants, searching for a home where none of their kind ever existed want members of the Brown Family gone so they might have the harsh environs of the Hoolock all to themselves. Gone are the protections the Browns have had for over a century as government agents authorized piscatorial hunters to kill as many of the members of the Brown Family as they desire. Fortunately, the challenging and resilient Browns have endeared themselves to the throngs of piscatorial hunters that have searched for them in the upper Hoolock over the last century and rightly so, reluctant to wantonly destroy them. May they persist for centuries to come.
The Hoolock River in the Spring
A patriarch of the Brown Family loose in the Hoolock
The Hoolock River in the Spring
A patriarch of the Brown Family loose in the Hoolock