The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Trannping
Near By
By DOROTHY NJ. LATHROP.

rect because pc trianS in New
England nowadays are p ideally unknown
out from New Canaan The organist of
St Marks. that quaint little roadside
church at the top of the hill which always
welcomes you, was at his keyboard, impro-
vising on the pipe organ. 1t was benef-
cent farewell, that musical reverie. for
Mate and me, who were to walk through
western Connecticut in a countryside that
rivals the English rural scenes.
Had it been proclaimed that we were
about to set out on such jaunt we should
have been written down as eccentric; for.
If you wish to be different from every per-
son aroundabout these parts, go as we did
on a pedestrian tour, just when Dame
Nature has taken out her paint Dot to
daub the foliage here and there with reds
and yellows and russets Go without chart
or compass schedule or timetable, caring
not whether you arrive in some particular
place or anywhere at any particular hour
OF any particular day. If you be sporting
enough to take a chance on obtaining bed
and board accommodations. and just amble
along. walking with exhilarating speed in
the coolness of the morning, at other times
stopping to peep into the beauty secrets
and the little interests of the country
neighborhoods. or to speak with the in
habtants along the way. having done
this, Mate and aver:
Walking through New England is one of
the keenest delights within the limits of a
modest purse, satisfying to any one who
can appreciate the out OF DOORS
1t was through wealth of the most
luxurious foliage that we wandered The
cardinal flower was abloom Many kinds
of goldenrod. late wild asters and innu-
merable other out of doors flowers added
touches of beauty to the landscape The
robins. so the wayside farmers said. were
preparing to fly southwark soon as the
season changes to late autumn Also. said
the bucolics, this southward flying will be
earlier than usual, because the inordinately
heavy rains presage a severe winter.
The route we followed took us to scenes
OF rural delight and into mountainous as
poets, as we rose gradually en- route to the
Berkshires, where an elevation of more
than 1000 feet is attained in the north
~
in Connecticut. We rambled along in To-
calities of historic interest, now the abode
Of many country estate dwellers in what
has become the playground of eastern
America
Clad IN tramping togs knapsacls packed
with absolute necessities we scorn the en-
nervating motor cars and the looks of won
derment that any one in sane mind in
these days should choose to walk when. ap-
parently, every one else In the world is
riding, gasoline propelled, over we'll built
and well nigh dustless roadways
Five miles to Vista and two miles further
to Lewisboro, past the little country
church and rectory, where, on the green.
We obtain refreshment and renewed vigor
from thermos bottle and half dozen
sandwiches. little more than two hours
have gone, yet we have rediscovered New
England, rediscovered that humans may
walk and that not all of life's delights are
confined to whirling past country scenes
in furiously driven automobile.
Three miles beyond, after a rest at the
Ridgefield Inn, We saw "The Cannon Ball
House." reminder Of Revolutionary times,