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Tuesday, April 22. 2014

We drove through Millington (CT) Green en route to fishing last weekend. Appealing Yankeeland architecture. The village was settled in 1704.

Here's a Saltbox:

A few more below the fold -

The village's schoolhouse. Plaque dates it to 1846, so it's maybe not the first one in town. Maybe it was, though, since kids used to be home-schooled.

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Having grown up in rural Methuen, MA, and having family all over southern NH, I greatly appreciate these images of New England.

PS. The black vultures continue their expansion in Knox Co., OH, and now can be seen about 2 miles from our home north of Mt. Vernon. Whether they are displacing the long-resident turkey vultures or have a different niche, I don't know.

30 years ago we didn't have asters in our yard, now every spring we have a carpet of them.

#1 bob sykes on 2014-04-22 07:09 (Reply)

Imagine away the new growth trees, which look to be almost all of them, and you can see the fields the houses once stood in.

#2 chuck on 2014-04-22 10:57 (Reply)

In my last visit to my NE hometown, I was impressed by the number of fields that had reverted to forest. So this was a trend that didn't end in 1920.

#2.1 Gringo on 2014-04-22 12:16 (Reply)

Only five percent of CT remained as woodlands in 1805.; everything is second growth.

You don't think those farmers built stonewalls in the middle of forests, do you?

#2.1.1 Earl T on 2014-04-22 22:10 (Reply)

You don't think those farmers built stonewalls in the middle of forests, do you?
Apparently you have reading comprehension problems, as I wrote: So NE farmland reverting to forest was a trend that didn't end in 1920.
That sentence implies knowledge of stonewall-enclosed fields having reverted back to forest, does it not?

Perhaps I need to rephrase what I wrote:

In my last visit to my NE hometown I was impressed by the number of fields - that had been fields during my childhood- that had reverted back to forest. So NE farmland reverting to forest was a trend that didn't end in 1920.

Can you find something to object to in the rewrite?

There was a field that could be reached only by crossing our property. The last time that field got mowed was in 1959- I can still remember the tractor driving through our property. I was able to see ecological succession in action during the additional two decades I was in the area. I wasn't including this former field in my previous comment, as it had reverted to forest while I was still around.

#2.1.1.1 Gringo on 2014-04-22 23:38 (Reply)

There are a number of little old settlements like that down this way. There's a section of Grassy Hill Rd. running from Lyme to East Lyme that rises to a plateau revealing a couple of old farm properties with a rural church where you'd least expect it on a back country road. The congregation does not meet there regularly but the church is well maintained and people still use it for weddings because it's such a wonderful setting.

The northeast corner of the state has some beautiful rural towns with antique homes too. A lot of these former farming communities still retain much of their bucolic feel. Exploring back roads there is a great way to spend an afternoon.

#3 Verde on 2014-04-22 22:50 (Reply)

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