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Exploring Paths in Norton, MA

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

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Canoe River, Norton, next to Norton town forest

Easy Walks South of Boston features six different destinations to visit when you are in the town of Norton. On a beautiful day in autumn I stopped by four of these open space properties to get some pictures of fall color. It was also an opportunity to see what my collaborators, Marilyn and Dave Doré, had discovered during their fieldwork for the book.

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War Memorial Park, West Bridgewater, MA

So much history in a small riverside park

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

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War Memorial Park in West Bridgewater, MA looks like a small green space from the road. Well, …it is. Within its four+ acres is a lot to see. The Town River flows through the area, and as with so many rivers, and even streams in New England, the river was used as a power source for multiple industries through the years.

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Rail trail explore in Rockland, MA

End of the line in Hanover, MA (for now)

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

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We never know what we will find when visiting a new (to us) rail trail. The Hanover Branch, or Rockland Rail trail, mostly in Rockland, MA, is a work in progress. It is already a community resource, primarily for walkers, since it is relatively short for right now, (3+ miles end to end).

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