Reading Rural Landscapes by Robert Sanford

A New England classic through and through. This book has been helping visitors and lifelong residents alike notice the stone fences, old farmstead foundations and gnarled trees that seem to be on every hiking path in the region and then glean information about how the land has been used in the past. New England is fascinated by its own past but there's something magical and wonderful about being able to Sherlock your way through the forest to imagine what a forest looked like two hundred years ago. Every walk becomes a journey through history.