Awalk in the woods is not just a walk in the woods for Richard Hamlen. When the woods are those his grandfather bought in 1906 at the base of Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, the walk is more like a reunion with old friends. That truck-sized boulder? It'sbig-sister Ann's Rock, and you had to be good to climb it as a kid to bug your sister perched up there all high and mighty. That path of stones covered in green moss? It's Granddaddy Ewing Hamlen's labor of love for his wife—each flat rock nestled intothe loam almost a century ago so she and her sisters could keep their long dresses clean.
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