A discussion of possible frontier justice in Easton
In the late 1980s, I worked at a prefect for a school year at Georgetown Preparatory School, an international resident-day college prep school that is the oldest institution of Jesuit learning in the New World. Georgetown University would grow out of Georgetown Prep. What is a prefect? Well, it something of a resident assistant who helps out with the students in the areas of discipline, academics, and recreation. As a recent graduate of Boston College – a Jesuit school of higher learning – it was a superb and enriching year for me. So, anyway, during that school year I reported to the housemaster who was a Georgetown Prep alum, and who had grown up in Alabama. I will call him George Andrews, but his name wasn't George Andrews. George …
Take a hike through the woods and discover this miraculous view over Langwater Pond.
As kids growing up in North Easton Village, not long after we began to explore our surroundings, wandering into the woods, along paths and streams, up into and around the Shovel Shops, and through and over fields, an early treasure we uncovered is what we called “Big Pout.” Not sure who gave the place that name – but I am thinking it was Bill Maguire. We were not aware of its primeval natural history – that it was the rim of an extinct volcano. We just knew it was a neat spot, a craggy rock escarpment that kissed the western bank of Fred’s Pond – also called Langwater Pond – and which rose some 60 feet. We would hang out at the top of the escarpment, and crawl and scamper up and down it, and avail ourselves to nice views, of the pond, …
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