With a gentle breeze rippling the surface of a secluded pond, dazzling sunshine illuminating ferns and wildflowers, and melodious calls of songbirds echoing through verdant woodlands, Gay City State .
The trails that wind through lush forests and cranberry bogs at Litchfield’s White Memorial Foundation are as wide, flat and smooth as carriage roads – no tripping over roots and rocks, scrambling up .
After battling three days of wind, waves and rain while kayaking to Canada on Lake Champlain, Andy Lynn, Phil Plouffe and I at last found refuge on Valcour Island, half a mile off the coast of Peru, N.
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Moments after kayaking beneath a bridge at the mouth of Stonington’s Quiambaug Cove the other day, Andy Lynn, Phil Plouffe and I encountered a great egret imperiously perched on a rock along the shore.