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I'm John Bashar, Professor Lila Philip of the College of Holy Cross is here.

Her new book is Beaverland, A One Weird Rodent Made America.

We've now left Americana history, and we come to Woodstock, Connecticut, where the professor lives,

and she begins her tale of beaver exploration and explanation by bonding with a beaver in a local pond

down pulpit rock road, which is not paved according to this report.

I don't think it has been, but this is a part of Connecticut that enjoys beavers.

And, Professor, it's charming the way you observe the beaver.

They're nocturnal creatures.

So you had to go near sunset.

Is that how you observed?

Yeah, thank you.

And I'm actually glad not to be talking about colonial period when beavers were a currency anymore.

It was so kind of heartbreaking to go back into that historical moment and think about that.

But yes, beavers are actually crepuscular, I would discover.

So they come out in the evening and they work nocturnally at night.

So I was walking one evening and I witnessed a beaver making a pond near my house.

And it was one of the most incredible things I'd ever seen.

It just literally stopped me in my tracks.

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