Meade Cadot served as the Harris Center’s Executive Director from 1975 through 2009, and became the keeper of lots of stories during that time! Lucky for us, he’s written many of them down. Scroll down and click on any image in the fun collection of stories we’re lovingly calling “Meade’s Tall Tales.” You just might learn something new about this place we call home…
And Now for the Tales...
![The Harris Center namesake: Harris the Cat](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HarrisTheCat_MR-250x190.jpg)
![A photo of a beaver in the Harris Center bathtub.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Beaver-in-our-tub-012_12-250x190.jpg)
![A photo of Amelia Earhart, the Cadot family's pet flying squirrel.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Amelia-Earhardt-in-palm-of-Cindy-Cadots-hand-IMG_0003-2-250x190.jpg)
![A map of tracks and sign found in the proposed Route 101 Bypass corridors in 1981.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/5-B3-Corridor-gray-Dublin-Rte-101-Bypass-Draft-EIS-250x190.jpg)
![A Ruffed Grouse](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Grouse_October2017_Thelen-250x190.jpg)
![An image of a newspaper clipping describing an incidence of untreated sewage emptying into the Contoocook River.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/7-Waterfoul_Dowsing_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A Pileated Woodpecker forages for crabapples.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Pileated-Crab-Apple-Picker-HancockHalloween-2014_MC_440x350_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A taxidermied possum. (photo © Ben Conant)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/possum_mount_Jan2019_BenConant-250x190.jpg)
![A canoe outing on Spoonwood Pond, circa 1982.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Canoe-to-Spoonwood-1982-or-3-2-250x190.jpg)
![sunrise at Spoonwood Pond (photo © Roxanne Copeland)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sunrise_Spoonwood_Aug2016_RoxanneCopeland_440x350_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A rainbow over Spoonwood Pond. (photo © Meade Cadot)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Spoonwood_rainbow_viewed_from_Greengate_10-9-19_MC-250x190.jpg)
![Thelma Babbitt](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ThelmaBabbitt_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A burning house in a snowy wood.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/13-Rye-Pond-House-warming-party_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![An autumn view of North Pond in Harrisville. (photo © Brett Amy Thelen)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/NorthPond_reflections_100516_Thelen_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![The still life painted “A Royal Dessert,” by William Michael Harnett.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/854px-A_Royal_Dessert_by_William_Harnett_1881_oil_on_canvas_-_Currier_Museum_of_Art_-_Manchester_NH_-_DSC07541_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A map of a proposed subdivision along Apple Hill Road in Nelson.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CalltoFairbanks-proposed-subdivision-plan_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A river otter. (photo © Zachary Spears via unsplash)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/otter_ZacharySpears_unsplash_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![An aerial view of Robb Reservoir surrounded by fall foiliage. (photo © Eric Aldrich)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/aerial_view_of_Robb_Reservoir_autumn2008_EricAldrich_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A group of birders looking out from the Chandler Land, near Robb Reservoir. (photo © Meade Cadot)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/RobbReservoir_Birdathon_team_at_Chandler_Land_052017_MC_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A moose captured in a trail cam photo, taken near Robb Reservoir. (photo © Jackie Lundsted)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/moose_RobbRes_062919_JackieLundsted_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![Summer campers sit in an oversized, handmade stick nest.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/The-Wols-Nest_circa2005-250x190.jpg)
![A historic photo of the Elmwood Junction railroad depot, courtesy of the Historical Society of Cheshire County.](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/tracks_station_in_distance_photo_courtesy_DaleRussell_small_250x190_acf_cropped-250x190.jpg)
![A side view of a man looking through binoculars, with a hearing aid visible in his left ear. (photo © Sandy Taylor)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Meade_birding_with_binoculars_August2022_SandyTaylor-250x190.jpg)
![A view of Spoonwood Pond and the surrounding forest. (photo © Tom Momeyer)](https://harriscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/view_from_EastPinnacle_112920_TomMomeyer-250x190.jpg)