Kongscut Land Trust Trails Glastonbury Kongscut is certainly one of the most interesting land trust names in the state. It certainly doesn't mean anything to anyone who doesn't know offhand that it comes from a Native American Indian woes meaning "place of wild goose". Furthermore, the name was chosen because at … [Read more...]
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Bethany Land Trust
Bethany Land Trust Trails Bethany & Beacon Falls Connecticut has three towns with fairly common female names. The interesting thing about this is that each town bearing a feminine name sort of matches the type of woman I think about when I picture a woman with that name. Madison: Wealthy, white, yuppie, long … [Read more...]
Winchester Land Trust Trails Intro
Winchester Land Trust Trails Torrington & Winchester Ah, Winstedester. Yes, Winsted is not a town, but merely part of Winchester. Certainly one of the top five “oh really?” towns in Connecticut. My brother-in-law lives in Winsted and would never, in a billion years, say he lives in Winchester. Poor … [Read more...]
Goshen Land Trust Trails
Goshen Land Trust Since I was born and raised in the mid-Atlantic Philadelphia area, one of the most difficult things for me to say “Connecticut Correctly” is “Waterbury.” Whereas Nutmeggers say “Wah-terBARE-ee” I’m apt to say “wooderboohri” which sounds bad enough. But I tend to mumble it, so in practice it’s … [Read more...]
Granby Land Trust Trails
Granby Land Trust Trails I like Granby. To get it out of the way, Granby includes North Granby and West Granby, but East Granby is its own town. East Granby’s just a’ight. Granby, along with Suffield, suffers the ignominy of being invaded by Southwick, Massachusetts – so all Nutmeggers should have a soft spot … [Read more...]
Avalonia: Knox Family Farm Preserve
Knox on Wood Knox Family Farm Preserve, Stonington February 1, 2014 I used this hike as sort of a test. Could I drive to the furthest (by time) spot in Connecticut (more or less) alone with my two boys, hike a long (for them) hike, go to lunch, go to Beer'd Brewing (since I'd be down there), and then drive home. … [Read more...]
Avalonia Land Conservancy Trails
Avalonia Land Conservancy Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Stonington Okay, who took geology in college? You did? Awesome. I did too and while it was just one sort of side class for me I really enjoyed it. And no, “Rocks for Jocks” doesn’t count, I mean a real geology class. UConn … [Read more...]
Burlington Land Trust Intro
Burlington Land Trust Burlington Imagine one of those commercials or lame sitcom scenes where a person at the register is the 1,000,000th customer or whatever and a bunch of balloons are dropping and sirens blaring in celebration. Because that’s you right now. You’re the winner! Congratulations! You, … [Read more...]
Arnold Preserve
Hey Arnold! Canton Land Conservation Trust, Canton October 2013 This page exists for historical reasons. "The Arnold Preserve" is more or less part of the CCLT's Onion Mountain complex of trails... or part of the Roaring Brook Nature Center's trail network. But I wrote this back when I was just learning about land … [Read more...]
Canton Land Conservation Trust Trails
Canton Land Conservation Trust Trails Canton, Barkhamsted, & Burlington When most people think of Canton, they think of the route 44 corridor. The built up area including, most notably, the Shoppes at Farmington Valley. The Shoppes used to be a golf course, which in my mind, are just as environmentally damaging as … [Read more...]