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JL 



100 YEARS EXPLORING LIFE, 1888-1988 



Wcdkin^j Bikinqj andRimning 



In addition to these basic Woods Hole pleasures, walking takes its place as 

 a favorite. Earlier generations may have hitched up their skirts and doffed 

 their coats and ties to head for a relaxing break at Nobska Point or farther 

 north. Or they may have headed up Mowing Hill toward what is now the golf 

 course. From there, you covild see all of Woods Hole without the trees to 

 interfere. A few took off on long Sunday treks, some wandering twenty or 

 more miles to explore the Cape, covering ground now occupied largely by 

 roads and development. Of course, now people are more likely to drive to 

 a public park or somewhere else "official" to do their hiking, often forget- 

 ting about their own back yards. 



Walking is more dangerous today along the streets where cars drive 

 faster and there are no shoulders or only healthy fields of poison ivy to dive 

 into. Yet the bike path provides an easy walk into Falmouth, winding along 

 the beach and through humid dense greenery. A visit to the udldlife sanc- 

 tuary at Quissett Harbor is also well worth the walk, especially at sunset as 



Mary lliiettner at Nobska Light, 1920. 

 Photograph by Alfred F. Huettner, 

 MBL Archives. 



