A green foothold

At the Teales’ “Trail Wood’’ farm.

“The greater the threat of the far-away to the near-at-hand, the more precious grows this green and pleasant foothold on the Earth. Each morning we breathe what the urban man thinks of as ‘that wonderful vacation air.’ Here we have found the simple, the good, the satisfying life – not for everyone, perhaps, but certainly for us. No other time, no other place would suit us better.’

-- Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980), in A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm, about the Hampton, Conn., farm he and his wife, Nellie, bought and moved to and named “Trail Wood’’.

Mr. Teale’s writing cabin at Trail Wood