Hello Friends of the Road,

I hope none of you have been cheating on our road with another road. I know the Bayley Hazen Road has its appeal, but the CPR is older, much older! It has many more stories to tell. Hopefully some day through archeology, we’ll learn more of those stories. I’m getting this newsletter out a bit late. It was a rare weekend without any rain, and I neglected other duties, not just this one. I hope you haven’t been too impacted by the flooding and other bad weather lately. There was even a tornado in the region and it traveled more than 10 miles before dissipating! 

I’d just like to take a minute to do some housekeeping. I’d like to remind you all why I hide all the recipients to this email. Out of respect to you all, I use “BCC” to safeguard your privacy. But feel free to reply anytime. I’m always happy to hear from you. 

This Saturday will be an outing in Orwell. The owners of the land are being extremely grateful and opening up their farm to visitors. There will be artifacts displayed and some demonstrations of metal detecting. After that there will be a short hike into the woods to see where some of the artifacts were found. Let’s hope for good weather. There will be limited parking onsite, so if you can carpool with anyone that you know is going, that would be helpful. Here is the official write-up: July 29: The Audet homestead has allowed a talented father/son team of metal detectors to explore the Mount Independence-Hubbardton 1776 Military Road route through their Orwell property. The general public is invited to gather at the 23 Brock Lane on Saturday at 10AM. There will be a demonstration on metal detecting, a display of findings at the site, and an optional hike into the woods to visit the site.

Earlier this month, board members represented the CPRA at the annual Hubbardton Battle re-enactment. We had a very active booth most of the day and lots of great conversation. The weekend event seemed well attended and the calendar was full of fun and informative activities. A huge bow and hat tip to Elsa Gilbertson and the rest of the historic sites staff for all their hard work. The volunteers also deserve praise as they had to deal with a lot of people at times, handle parking logistics and much more. 
I have a collection of photos I’ve been sitting on for a few months. Longtime contributor to the organization, Jim Moore, loaned me a photo album he has. It is full of photos spanning years of outings. I scanned them all in and am now sharing them with you all. Feel free to download copies of them. You may recognize a few people or may even see yourself! The first link will take you to a page where our Treasurer has been compiling archives on the CPRA website. For those who haven’t visited this page, there is lots of good stuff. It will continue to get material, so check back again in the future. Once you click on the link, click again on “The Archives” at the bottom, then choose “Photos”, and then “1966 through 2000 CPRA Outings…”  and here’s the link: https://www.crownpointroad.org/home/archives/ Or, if you want the direct link to the photo album, click here:   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rr2fOGsumruCqlVQwm3G15HxvRhdJcBM  I hope you enjoy them! 

That is all I have for you today. It is blueberry season, so try to find some to pick or buy. They sure beat what the supermarket calls fruit! One of many joys of summer.