Time was, when a cottage “in the country” meant being within easy driving distance of your home, using your early automobile. “Here is the wildest of primitive regions, but short daily visits to it would not be possible without the aid of that most modern of man's inventions – the automobile.”
For Stamfordites, that would have been no farther than North Stamford – hard to envision for most of us today. But you had the added advantage of being able to go there any day of the year and observe and enjoy nature.
So join us for a visit with Mr. Fitch A. Hoyt, retired grocery store owner, who every day got in his car to drive to his log cabin Wawonaissa to commune with nature: The Nature Studies and Recreations of a Business Man. (Photo Selection of the Month, July 2007).
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