21 August 2019
Uncle Ralph took me to see dinosaur tracks! They are at what is now the “Powder Hill Dinosaur Park” in Middlefield, CT, just a few minutes away from the home base of Haddam Quarter, in what practically used to be Uncle Ralph’s back yard when he was growing up near there, at the top of the hill. What you see in the pictures is pretty much the whole “park,” but what it lacks in size and publicity it makes up in authenticity and a sense of discovery. After pulling over into a little parking lot with only a couple spaces and a sign right under the overhang of trees by the road, it was just a few yards around a sign and into the forest to look down and see the marks as if dinosaurs had walked and sunk in across the stone.
We saw two to three different kinds of tracks of varying size.
Some of the footprints have been moved to the Peabody museum, but riding out to the original spot with Uncle Ralph was better in spades to seeing any there at the Peabody. It is particularly fascinating because the park spot is far from being a sterile environment, rather, it is very alive with the forest all around, the leaves and dirt seeming to have just been swept away to expose the footprints. As I would say, they were truly “real wild ones.”
Uncle Ralph has a piece of this rock with a particularly good footprint that he has taken with him from its original home (his too), to wherever he has lived over the years.
Sincerely,
Samuel Rausch
This trip was made possible by my Uncle Ralph and Aunt Katharine, who hosted me before I left for Europe, and helped me make good use of the time spent with them. Köszönöm szépen! (Thank you very much!)
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