1135. Come Quilt With Me in RI! (2) - stroll
Hopkinton, RI
Placed 20 Sep 2020

This is another set of stamps from sewsewbizzy that came along with a logbook entitled "Come Quilt with Me along the Lincoln Highway". We had intended to actually plant them along the Lincoln Highway perhaps somewhere in PA or maybe even near that giant head of Lincoln that we remembered from our travels across Wyoming. However, the pandemic year of 2020 has certainly not allowed much for us in the way of travel, so we finally decided to leave these stamps nearby in RI until we might be able to transplant them at some later point. We could perhaps have chosen to plant them in Lincoln, RI, but for now we left them near giant boulders along the yellow trail that starts from the very end of Stumptown Rd left off Canonchet Rd, heading west from Rt 3 about half a mile south of I-95 exit 2 in Hopkinton, RI.

So, from the kiosk there at the end of the dirt portion of Stubtown Road, follow the yellow blazed trail west past some signs of former habitation (log cabins?), then turn left with the yellow blaze past more old foundation stones and head gently downhill less than 200 steps with a stone wall on your right. Soon find a very large boulder (15ft by 20ft plus), even larger than a log cabin! Passing it, note a small ledge, a foot or so off the ground, on its southwest side. Gently twist the black box out from the triangular space above and behind the small ledge to find "Lincoln's Log Cabin" quilt pattern within. Please remember to repack it well covered with leaves and a stick or two.

Now descend a bit further to the bottom of a laurel grove with another very large boulder (maybe 10ft by 12ft.) As you pass this boulder, note that its west side has a foot-wide waist-high platform pedestal that you could actually sit upon. Tucked in leaves behind this little platform is where we left "Lincoln's Platform" quilt pattern. If you like, you could continue as we did down the yellow trail and perhaps take orange to visit some other interesting rock foundations and sacred sites like "Table Rock", or just head back the way you came.

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