The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-14
New England Vacation Paradise Mountains, Lakes and Shore All Within One
 Days Short Trip by Motor, Bus or Train.

When people spend their vaca- tions right where they live - that's the test. New Englanders for near ly four generations now have been taking their summer recreation al beaches, mountains, lakes and farms that are practically in their own dooryardS. They found out that they need not travel great distances to find change and healtalful relaxa- tion. In pup tents and the smart esb of resort hotels they spend the summer months getting next to rla- ture and smoothing out the wrinkles and the bumps left by a winters business activity.
 And through the years more and more people from the rest of this country and from abroad have been finding out about New England, with the result that the New Eng land Council estimates that the six states had more than three million recreational visitors last year.
 Probable reason number one for this great host is that you can have any kind of vacation you want in the sdx-state region. In any area so important industrially you might think there would be no recreational space left. Actually, there are 36,00O square miles of vacationland. There are four major mountain ranges. Over 25O0 miles of sea coast, with 1000 sandy beaches. Four thousand miles of mountain trails for hikers and climbers. Hundreds of beautiful lakes set in friendly green valleys. Hundreds of stopping places, from friendly farm houses and overnight camps to huge resort hotels. Thou sands of miles of smooth highways winding through the charming and inspiring landscape.
 Woven through it all, overspread- ing all of New England, is that in- tangible yet rich and real fabric of our national history and culture.
 New England is often spoken of as a geographical and spiritual unit and in some ways 1t is. But this unity Is the sum total of many ways of living in widely varied surround ingS.
 Thousands of visitors are drawn northward and eastward by the sea. The Atlantic has played 8 great part in our history. It brought our fore fathers here; its fisheries supported generations of Yankees and are still of world importance: 1t carries the commerce of all nations. It has 8 majesty which strikes all who look upon 1t. Yet 1t is 8 friendly ocean Fishermen on beaches and rocky headlandS cast their lines out into the clear green water. YachtSnen sail their craft, tiny SloopS and great schooners. on its dimpled sur face. On sandy beaches bathers plunge into creamy combers and after their swim soak up the sun shine on the silvery sand. Young sters paddle about in the quietel coves. Picnickers hasten to oper their boxes after half an hour o1 the clean, Salt-Sl1arpened air. Gulls wheel against the cloud studded sky
 All along the coaStline are the ports, great and small, that once saw the lovely clippers and the far-rov. ing whalers z ports that now send out fleets of fishing and merchant vessels. A
 In northern New England there is still wilderness, vast stretches oi primeval forest, harboring the fin- est of fish ard game, with bead-like lakes on strings of rivers that ofIel adventurous canoe trips.
 There are lofty mountains, rear ing their peaks high above the tim berline, nine, of them mile above sea level. Yet they and their greenei sister throughout New England are readily accessible by motor. Mighty Katahdin in Maine Cadillac Mountain near Bar Hafbor: the White Mountains of New Hampshire with their famous ''notcheS,' ' Crawford, Dixville, Fran ccnia, Pinkham; the ancient, friend ly Green Mountains Of Vermont: the Berkshires in Massachusetts the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut each group has It's own characteEist. ics and atmosphera.