HIKE REPORT
Wednesday, 13 December 2023, Lincoln: Off the Beaten Track hike
Hike Leaders: Marie Keutmann, 617 312 4739, marie.keutmann@gmail.com
& Barbara Jacobs, nyder.jacobs@gmail.com
~5 miles, 10:00 am start from The Pierce House, 17 Weston Road, Lincoln, MA
Hikers (27): Marie, Barbara Jacobs, Barbara Martin, Betty Salzberg, Cynthia Zabin, Dan Nelson, David Wean, Elsa Lawrence, Emily Wean, Frank Aronson, Greg Stathis, Jack Mroczkowski, Jim Whinfield, Judy Perrin, Julie Dodd, Kristina Leclaire, Lynne O'Riorden, Mike Hanauer, Patrick Ward, Phyllis Evan, Renee Rees, Susan Broome, Susan Sabin, Ted Nyder, Tim Dodd, Zach Woods, and first-timer Rick Ward.
On a gorgeous sunny day, Marie and Barbara led twenty-seven hikers through open fields, horse pastures, backyards, and woods in Lincoln. Highlights included traversing Flint Fields above the Flint Farm, which has been continuously occupied and farmed by the Flint family since Thomas Flint came over from England in 1636. We stopped in the field above to look at rows of young American Chestnut trees which have been planted in an experiment to try to grow them in a way to be resistant to the fungus that destroyed most of the magnificent American Chestnuts a century ago.
A special treat was walking through a horse pasture, with galloping horses coming up to inspect us. Then, on a stroll through the grounds of the Decordova Museum, we were intrigued by a crooked house made of wood and brick which slanted in one direction.
A dozen or so of us had lunch at Verrill Farm, eating in the warm greenhouse which we shared with many Christmas trees.
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