I love finding public access walkways. If you don’t know about this one, it is behind Anna Hyatt Huntington’s old studio where she sculpted the famous Joan of Arc statue in 1915, just after you cross the Goose Cove Bridge heading toward Lanesville.
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I used to dive off that bridge as it was cranking at high tide. E ticket. (To any kids listening, this is not a very smart thing to do.)
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sweet! i lived on that path the summer before i went to art school. learned to sail that summer, along with how to harvest moonshells and muscles. also learned the very valuable lesson: horseshoe crabs follow moonshells. the horseshoe crab leaves a thinner ship-like mark in the flats. yowzer! a stink hundreds of times more electric than a bee.
great post!
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oh, Hyatt Mayor was living there, then. along with being a brilliant scholar of “Prints and People” he was a naturalist. from him i learned that day lily flowers are edible. great memories. when i studied printmaking at The Art Institute, his book “Prints and People” was a studio companion.
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E ticket. Never heard that before so had to look it up. Learn something new every day on GMG.
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EJ – you are so precious . . .
First, E tickets were how you got on rides at Disney before it was just one admission fee, when I first moved to Florida we had all these tickets left over, it was like the carnival.
Second, I just love that you walk, explore, and report your findings – love your photos, glad you are back in Squam. Wish I could say I would see you soon but too warm in Florida to head to your climate. 🙂
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Well Deb, I didn’t know what a moon shell was either until I looked it up. I never knew they were the creatures that created sand collars, or that they suffocated their prey or drilled holes in their shells. Did you eat them? I’ve captured many horseshoe crabs in my day, but never been stung by one. I didn’t know they could – I always worried about stepping on their tale.
I assume that anonymous is Debra – how are you? Yes, I’m a little backwater girl. I need to get out of Annisquam more often.
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lol! edit, edit, edit..
the horseshoe crabs leave whip-like marks in the wet sand.
and the sting, not stink, is 100x worse than a bee.
yes. ate the moon shells. they are very sweet.
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oh, the barbed tail has the stingers.
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What a treasure! I’ve lived here since ’63 and am learning about hidden walks and vistas each day! Guess I spent too much time in the classroom – – altho the class and I did explore the woods in back of Fuller and strolled to the Sawyer Free regularly . . . thanks!
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What a ‘day’ for photo taking ~ great shots and neat history ~ thanks ~ EJ ~ namaste, Carol ^_^
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Wow, what a find…will check it out…thanks…
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As usual, great shots, Ellen and well researched information.
FYI – The house that stands by the catwalk, close to 127, is no longer what was Anna Hyatt Huntington’s studio. it was horribly “renovated” quite a few years ago, destroying all of its original charm. A. Hyatt Mayor lived in the large adjacent house on the piece of land jutting out into the Annisquam River. Beware! The current residents are very unsociable, don’t even try to “TRESPASS!” ::+)
In the summer months there are today more and more kayakers who get a buzz from zooming through the underpass when the tide sweeps into Goose Cove.
To think, as children in the 40’s and 50’s we used to swim there without adult supervision…terrifying but wonderful!
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