Saturday, September 20, 2008
East Rock Park * Soldiers and Sailors Monument
We set the GPS on “Minimize Highways” and “Shortest Distance” and saw some beautiful country, tough sections of New Haven, and some lovely homes on the way home. We also drove near what I recognized as East Rock, and we discovered it is a park, so we drove to the summit (detailed park map). What a beautiful view, overlooking the Mill River! We had some trouble orienting ourselves and determining which direction we were facing. The Soldiers and Sailors monument at the top had obviously been vandalized and was fully fenced in. It honored soldiers and sailors killed in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and the War of 1812. The same GPS settings sent us mostly up Route 5 through Wallingford and Meriden, then onto the Berlin Turnpike and into Hartford Center, where we did the rest of the way on our own. (Jan)
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