Short Escapes near Boston Book

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHERE TO FIND EACH EXPERIENCE
HOW TO USE SHORT ESCAPES
EXPERIENCES 1-4: CONNECTICUT
Bear Mountain — Up on Connecticut's Roof
White Memorial Foundation — A Gift to a Town
Mashamoquet Brook — An American Hero
Bluff Point — Last of the Coastline
EXPERIENCES 5-7: RHODE ISLANDAshton — The Power of Water
Newport — Much Ado About Architecture
Block Island — A Remnant of the Ice Age
EXPERIENCES 8-14: MASSACHUSETTS
Bartholomew's Cobble — The Colonel and the Cobble
Mount Greylock — A Mountain for Everyone
Mount Holyoke — America's First Mountain Hotel
Quabbin Reservoir — Before and After the Flood
World's End — An Oasis in Suburbia
The Punkhorn Parklands — The Cape's Last Great Expanse
Great Island — Island-Hopping on the Cape
EXPERIENCES 15-18: VERMONT
Harriman Dam — The Hoot, Toot & Whistle Railroad
Little Rock Pond — A Walk on the Wild Side
Woodstock — A Monument for Billings
Shelburne Farms — A Millionaire's Dream Farm
EXPERIENCES 19-22: NEW HAMPSHIRE
Mountain Monadnock — Sacred Mountain of the East
Waterville Valley — Greeley & the Ponds
Zealand Notch — The Healing Power of Nature
Mount Starr King — The Reverand's View of the Heights
EXPERIENCES 23-25: MAINE
Wolf Neck Woods — The Land Between Waters
Mount Battie — High Mountains against the Sea
Acadia National Park — Of Rocks andWaves