canal-path

Updated: May 8, 2025

We made a point of spending it out of doors, making excursions down the river to watch the meeting of the slow Concord and the swift Merrimack; or around by the old canal-path, to explore the mysteries of the Guard Locks; or across the bridge, clambering up Dracut Heights, to look away to the dim blue mountains.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)