The property will be managed by the village, which will add some benches and a chipped wood path, said Lee Snead, a village trustee.
In the Ramble and the North Woods, paths slice through thickets of trees and shrubs with a density approaching a subtropical forest's.
Crops, flowers, and fruit and cacao trees would have been mingled together, unlike the monocrop agriculture of today, and spaced around dense housing settlements, with woods, paths, and shaded parks.
In the spring, Mr. Farrell bought nine lots on East Woods Path from Millenium, naming his development Sagaponack Woods.
You can walk along a boardwalk of black locust or on a walkway of bonded yet permeable pebbles, or through a copse of rhododendrons on a chipped-wood path.
They had lunch together, and lunch together, and lunch and a walk, and a weekend coffee, and lunch again, until something felt wrong when they didn't meet up, even if it was to do nothing much at all but take the woods path, or walk, once night had come on, right through town.
It turns out there are only so many wood chipping paths you can make.
That can include using native grasses that may sometimes be dormant and brown, outlawing the use of carts and avoiding asphalt in favor of weathered wood for paths.
I approach it through the wood, where paths have been laid through the landscape of his childhood – sighing beech trees, sink-holes, a winding Roman road, a pond on a hill where a wild white pony stands and stares at me, whinnying.
Art and Nan led a relatively austere existence, chopping wood, cutting paths through the forest, growing vegetables, rowing to the mainland if they needed special supplies — but what comes through in "We Were an Island" is how inconsequential all this is.
