The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10

1 cabins and other shelters for the night, open tip vast regions where the automobile cannot penetrate. Connecticut has its Litchfield Hills. broken and secretive, with winding rivers down in deep cut-vaIIeyB. The Ldtchfield Hills are individual masses with frequent small and cup-shaped valleys between them, or they are little plateaus raised in the air. Tho old roads which threaded through and over them had to wind and twist, getting up from the river gor- ges, or leading from one town to the next. Old villages once isolated charm the traveller along his way.
 The Bershires, in Massachusetts,. connect with the Litchfields, yet they are quite different. They lie mostly In long horizontals with both wider and longer valleys between, giving a wholly different landscape effect. Here iwthe scene of stirring colonial history, of warfare with the Indians and then with the Redcoats. Later the fine old towns attracted such figures as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Ward Beecher, Herman Mel- vile and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Nowadays great resorts and hand- some summer homes distinguish the region.
 Moving on up to Vermont one en- tefs the Green Mountains, a long. majestic. backbone" of the state Ali through them are scattered broad and smiling lakes. Lake Champlain fovms the western boundary of the state for about 1l6 miles. The Green Mountain Range runs north and south, at least thousand of it's peaks 2,0O0 feet or higher, with the famous Long Trail threading from peak to peak up to the Canadian border.
 Motor roads follow the contours of the valleys, now down on the banks of q stream, now rising to high outcropping shoulders. On every hand there open out breath taking views. Time after time you will slow down as you enter peaceful villages spread along main street. You will stop by the road to listen to the ttnkle and rattle of 8 mountain brook.
 still further over, in Maine, is the wild, mysterious Katahdin, lonely monarch of the deep woods, repo- sitory of much Indian lore.
 In all these mountains there is rich catalogue of things to do and things to see. Picnics, walks, na- ture study are ready activities; laundering cascades, streaming down in q white cloud from the heights: peculiar formations-"Old Souaws", "Anvils", Giants Ham, naers", elephants Heads; leaping I deer and brightwinged birds: for- est rangers lookout towers as an ob- jective for a hike and as great reward paid off in terms of the view.
 The mountains range from the wild and awful to the friendly. From the heights of Mt. Washing ton, 6,293 feet, the whole Presiden- tial Range stretches before you. Thirteen peaks of which the low est is 3,S75 feet. On clear day
 from this ridgepole of New Eng
 land you may see into three sister states and eastward, sixty miles, to
 the blue Atlantic. To climb this mountain by one of the numerous trails is 6 rugged test of wind and limb. Yet this is one of those that may be climbed by cog wheel rail- road or motor car.
 Elsewhere there are those which are but gentle slopes rising from the backyard" of your hotel or cottage.
 Until they have gazed on such vistas, those who think of New England in terms of her great in- dustrial cities cannot believe that these six states, despite their indus trial importance, have thousands of square miles of wilder, less tanned wilderness than many states which were not even dreamed of when the first New Englander first stood on the top of Mt. Washington. AS the New England Council points out, the very concentration of New Eng lands populations in its large cii- ties, has made possible this unspoil- ed wilderness. And the compact- ness of New England and it's trans portation network make it accessi- l