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This is Monster the Mighty Moose a little more active...one of his trips to Branch Brook Park right next to us.
That park, in Newark, NJ, was the first county park in the United States, and the guys who designed and built it were Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. They did it BEFORE they did Central Park in New York, and used Branch Brook as the beta test for all their ideas for Central Park. These included curved roads to prevent carriage races, distinctive designs for every bridge, lots of trees, a creek running through it, and wide-open spaces for sports.
It all worked...and today the park has more cherry trees than Washington DC and the creek is regularly stocked with trout.
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