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The beautiful trees on the left are no longer there. They were ripped out by a tornado that devastated the area on May 15, 2018 only 6 months after this photo was taken. Very sad.

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The Quinnipiac River flows southward from Farmington, Connecticut at Deadwood Swamp to the New Haven harbor on Long Island Sound. Its length is 38 miles (61 km) and its name means “long-water-country.” The Quinnipiac people of the Long Water Land had several sub-sachemships and villages along its banks as well as main trails that criss-crossed its length. The Quinnipiac River and Quinnipiac Hiking Trail still run directly through Sleeping Giant State Park, a sacred site revered by the Quinnipiac people as the petrified body of their culture hero, the Stone Giant, Hobbomock.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinnipiac

Sleeping Giant (also known as Mount Carmel) is a rugged traprock mountain located 8 miles (13 km) north of New Haven. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Most of the Giant is located within Sleeping Giant State Park. Quinnipiac University is located at Mount Carmel's foot in Hamden.

Adapted from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giant_%28Connecticut%29

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