Observations on my walk to vote

It was about a 12 minute walk to the voting area (the local elementary school). Observations along the way...

Red!!

The ubiquitous Power Lines - (future bike or hike!)

a sure give away that this pine grove was man-made

From my never-ceasing online research of local history I know there was once a quarry nearby. But clearly posted no trespassing signs prevented a closer inspection!

See the clearing? That's the former quarry

About the quarry

Curtis Quarry >

1910 Description:

"A feldspar quarry 2 1/2 miles northeast of South Glastonbury, near the road to East Glastonbury, is worked by a firm that uses the product entirely in the manufacture of abrasive soaps [Bon Ami]. This quarry is on the farm of Frank G. Curtis and consists of a single pit about 250 feet long, trending northeast and southwest. It is about 30 feet wide at the northeast end and narrows to 15 feet at the southwest end, having an average depth of about 20 feet.

"The material is quarried by steam drilling and blasting and is hauled by two-horse and four-horse teams 9 miles to the mill at North Manchester. Here it is crushed, first in a rotary crusher, then in a chaser, and is ground to requisite fineness in tube mills. Only the purest portions of the pegmatite are used, and the amount of quartz in the ground product will probably not exceed 10 per cent."