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From Wild and Scenic Rivers to Gowing's Swamp: Concord Welcomes Fall
STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVE WITHERBEE
Concordians are fortunate to live in this special town for many reasons. There is the obvious history of the first inland incorporated town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the American Revolution, and our many renowned authors.
Concord’s geography is also extraordinary. We have three Wild and Scenic Rivers, Walden Pond, White Pond, Estabrook Woods, and Great Meadows Fish and Wildlife Refuge. Minute Man National Historical Park has many lovely places to walk as do October Farm and Brewster’s Woods Wildlife Sanctuary. The bog at Gowing’s Swamp was one of Henry David Thoreau’s favorite landscapes.
There are dozens of farms in Concord and the surrounding area. These farms offer more than 1,000 acres of open land that we can gaze across as well as a place to buy or pick the season’s freshest fruits and vegetables.
Visit some of these extraordinary places and enjoy all that fall in Concord has to offer!
