There’s one thing about climbing a mile, just about straight up, on a gravel pathway and sturdily built staircases that wind in and around the most spectacular natural phenomena of waterfalls, deep pools and twisted trees… THE FLUME in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire… But there’s another thing about Grandpa climbing through a hole in what’s called the Bear’s Cave that’s [...]

OK.  It wasn’t St. Petersburg, Missouri or the Mississippi River.  And Tom Sawyer, the Widow Douglas and Jim weren’t there. It was Hale’s Location, New Hampshire and a tiny tributary stream… perhaps stemming from the Saco River.  And two of my grandchildren, Taylor and Andrew, and their Mom, Nicole, were there. Here… This tiny stream high up in the White [...]