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You come upon oddities that you might have passed by a
dozen times and never noticed, such great stone-block
formations stacked from years ago for some purpose now
unknown, or a reading bench, old and gnarled, like some-
thing out of Grimm. Another bench is a memorial to Carl
Kiger ’71. A plaque affixed to a fallen tree says that he
“heard the whispered secrets of these woods and waters.”
You can wander the School paths using a map, created in
2012 by Sixth Formers Morgan Holland and Eric Nieminen.
You can find it at
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The Turkey River spreads here and there for the families
of SPS ducks, landing together with a splash on the water
but then floating soundlessly along, bright green heads
on the father ducks. On the “white” path, the rush of the
water can drown out the sounds from Pleasant Street but
not the distant Westminster Chimes of the Chapel bells.
There’s a smell – it might take a moment to recognize
wild grapes, not quite out of reach from the path, sour
after you slip off their skins and taste them.
The paths can almost disappear under the leaves, and
even more when it snows.
