Shires Quotes

When we were looking for a weekend place... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.' - Marc Kudisch

We need a lot of consistent moisture. Conditions in the forest are ripe to explode. - Jim Shires

We have many people left to interview. - Jim Shires

We have gotten some information from a person that may have witnessed something, and we have contacted three or four people of interest. There have been no arrests. - Jim Shires

We got a good look at the Himalayas, which they tell me are about 28,000 feet high. I expected to be very impressed, but really, they didn't look any more picturesque to me than the Berkshires or the Green Mountains. Certainly not as pleasant-looking as the wooded mountains we have in New England. I'll leave those cold and barren slopes in Asia to the mountain climbers. - Norman Rockwell

We don't know if he's unconscious. We don't know if his cell phone is no longer working, if the battery's gone dead. We don't know why we haven't received contact from him lately. - Jim Shires

We don?t know that any charges will be filed, but we have to eliminate other causes as well to remove any reasonable doubt should any charges be filed. We have to eliminate other causes, including a train going through and sparking the fire. - Jim Shires

These five individuals do not live in that area as well, so that strengthens the case about why they were there, should they have been there, and what were they doing there. - Jim Shires

There have been no new developments. Many people have been talked to and interviewed but no one has been arrested and named as a suspect. - Jim Shires

The siding of the cabin was metal and . . . they would light the stick on fire and use the blackened portion of it to write their names with. And, as they were doing that, burning embers would fall onto the grassy area. That's how we feel the fire started. - Jim Shires