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Volume XIV MARCH, 1922 Number 10 
THE COLONY AT SOUND BEACH, CONNECTICUT, WHERE DR. 
EDWARD F. BIGELOW DISPENSES HOSPITALITY 
AND KNOWLEDGE. 
From a page illustrated article by Winthrop Packard, in The Boston 
Transcript, January 7, 1922. 
W HO shall find Arcadia, the place 
where ideal rustic simplicity and 
contentment prevail? Long ago 
the poets of the Peloponnesus sang of 
its joys. The songs remain, but the 
Arcadia of ancient Greece has gone 
with the Greek poets, never to return. 
Yet we have a new cult every few min- 
utes and one of the latest of these is 
the cult of nature worshippers. The 
novitiate in this requires some knowl- 
edge of the birds, the flowers, the stars, 
the tiny creatures that sing in the grass 
and the marshy pool, and surely the 
novice must go back to Arcady for 
these. Hence we have the byways of 
the country spattered with bird watch- 
ers and flower finders and at night we 
stumble over the star gazers when we 
ourselves wander in the dusk, per- 
chance following some star. 
A little of the Arcadia that these seek 
may be anywhere — in a city back-yard, 
a park or along a country lane. I myself 
found an epitome of Arcadia tucked in 
beside the railroad down in Connecti- 
cut not more than forty miles from 
New York. Sound Beach is a neat little 
village, a mile from the picturesque 
shore of Long Island Sound, a street of 
shops that cater to the surrounding 
commuters’ homes and the summer 
cottages alongshore. 
GETTING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE. 
You get off the train at a little station, 
tread a perilous path down a railroad 
embankment, enter a grove, and you 
are in ArcAdiA, spelled with three cap- 
ital “A’s” by those who know it best. 
Plere are nature and all the appliances 
of nature study, buildings, instruments, 
teachers, grouped in a shaded five-acre 
lot, and because it is ArcAdiA it is free 
to all and because it is free to all it is 
Arcadia. There is a marshy meadow 
w T ith a tiny pond where creatures of the 
marsh, — frogs, salamanders, yea snakes 
and water scorpions, may be found and 
studied along with marsh insects and 
plants. This is Nymphalia, the abode 
of nymphs, butterfly nymphs in the 
air, dragon-fly nymphs in the pools and 
wood nymphs in mjodern dry-goods 
Copyright 1922 by The Agassiz Association, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 
