honoring rocky top:Development creeps closer to the site of Blue Trail founder Edgar Heermance's cabin

摘要

Rocky Top doesn't show on most maps of Hamden but stands as perhaps the most important landmark in the history of the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails. It's the site of a cabin on the wooded traprock ridge where retired minister Edgar Laing Heer-mance brought his family in the late 1920s. Mr. Heermance marked a path through die woods there, the Quinnipiac Trail, the first of the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails managed by the Connecticut Forest & Park Association through a cadre of volunteers.