For your consideration: an article on the sheltered childhood today’s kids lead. Whatever happened to ‘Come home when the streetlights come on?’
I was twigged to this article by an old friend at Twirling Towards Freedom, who took the time to gin up a map of the territory ranged by our ten year old selves.
Although we didn’t realize it at the time, our woods was the creation of Frederick Law Olmsted, America’s preeminent landscape architect. Not too shabby…