Despite our midsummer vacation being still weeks away, and perhaps Pavlovian in nature, my tongue began wagging in early July: Where to eat? A common conundrum, I suppose, and the greatest “first world worry” you will read about today our family’s annual summer “struggle,” given the oh-so-many dining choices that Martha’s Vineyard bestows each […]
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Leg 27, Nov. 29, 2020: Boxford to Georgetown
For the third consecutive Sunday, we are back on the trail, hiking this time through Boxford horse country and into leaf-covered Georgetown Rowley State Forest.
This stretch included a little bit of everything – from quiet woods and historic neighborhoods to old reservoirs, a new boardwalk and a World War I encampment.
We started in Lockwood Forest and traveled north along the Nancy Merrill Trail to Fish Brook, a part of the Ipswich River that empties into the Atlantic Ocean near our ultimate destination – Plum Island. Above the remnants of an old mill, a small dam holds back a small reservoir system that bordered horse farms.
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The tour ends at the Friends Southwestern Burial Ground, where several of the figures highlighted along the route were laid to rest.
Last year, newly elected Mayor Keffer appointed new members to the Upper Darby Historic Commission. Among them was Bart Everts, a librarian at Rutgers University Camden.
The notion of a walking tour came out of the need for a socially distanced activity, Everts said.
“I think, given the fact that we’re still experiencing the effects of COVID-19, it was a good idea to just do a self-guided tour, rather than bringing a bunch of people in one kind of small area. This allows people to do it at their own free time, and also do it at their own pace,” Everts said.