A BIG, YEARLONG STATE PARKS PARTY:A full year's events begin with the 'Sojourn'— walkers, runners, bicyclists, and boaters will cover 169 miles

摘要

Aman excavating rock for a state building in Rocky Hill shut down his excavator when he thought the rocks he was scooping looked odd. It was 1966, and he was supposed to be digging the foundation for a veterans' building.The worker told his boss that the rocks looked unusual. The boss agreed and called his boss. They realized that the worker had uncovered a set of dinosaur tracks. The state halted plans for the veterans' building and built a dome over those dinosaur tracks, calling it Dinosaur State Park.The state parks are here because of 107 such stories—stories of people salvaging or buying or willing amazing bits of land because they wanted all people, not just those who could afford to own land, to have fun. This is not the Wild West: Here, all ofthe parks started out in private ownership and had to move intothe public trust. One by one, the park lands started this transition in 1913.