The Seat

Trail Wood #60 Earl Plato

Writer’s note: We reconstructed the Marcy seat on Little Hemlock Trail at Marcy Woods. Ours was anchored between four huge basswood trees. A good place to rest and/or eat lunch.
Ed Teale had a plank seat nailed between two trunks. The day we visited Trail Wood back in 2007 I looked for that seat.
Teale wrote: “ At the head of a small woodland glen, I stop by Whip-poor-will Spring; Its flow of clear, cold water tumbles from an opening in a precipitous bank, dropping into a miniature pool, flowing away down the valley to join the pond at Whip-poor-will Cove. For some time leaning back against a tree where a plank seat is nailed between two trunks…”