The three-part series was first broadcast on ITV on 7 December 2016. In Plain Sight is a Scottish television drama series covering the crimes committed by serial killer Peter Manuel in Lanarkshire, Scotland in the 1950s. You can find more of his work at TV series or programme In Plain Sight Leff is the author of Hidden in Plain Sight: A Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut (Wesleyan University Press, 2012). Wonder beckons just beyond your doorstep!ĭavid K. Such connections enrich and give meaning to daily life and nurture impulses to protect and improve those precincts of our explorations.Įver want to visit a place endlessly lively and interesting, a spot with richly textured history, natural wonders, enchanting buildings, cultural marvels, and engaging characters? No need to pack your bags and catch a flight Connecticut is a big place that belies its Lilliputian geography. The more we see with depth the places where we live, work and visit, the more intriguing these places seem and the more connected to them we become. Deep travelers recognize that places exist not just spatially but in time, and that they are sensitive to indicators of former activity. I call such practiced looking “deep travel,” a methodology for exploring any place with heightened awareness. Those who know how to look can find intriguing elements of the past most everywhere. The very street names gracing our neighborhoods can be read as a community biography telling stories of settlement, natural beauty, industry, and aspirations. Caves, abandoned mines, repurposed churches, public fountains, fire towers, glacial boulders, and many other places and objects await discovery. The number and variety of quirky historic wonders is limited only by our ability to see them. Carmel Cemetery on Route 10 in Hamden.įrom behind a windshield, sharp observers can spot octagon houses, roadside springs, castle-like homes, abandoned graveyards, old landfills, barns whose presence suggests disappearing land uses, and many other glimmers of our history. Look carefully along the edge of the road as you drive and you may find them in places as diverse as the front of Bristol’s Taco Bell on Route 6 or just outside the fence of Mt. Thousands drive by them daily, but few notice them as they pass. In their obsolescence, they provide a sense of time’s passage. Ancestors of today’s metal signs, these markers not only provided information about distances traveled but also facilitated commerce and communication. Other intriguing examples are the 200-year-old mile markers lining many of our oldest two-lane blacktops, including U.S. Visitors to Manchester’s Nike Park or Westport’s Rolnick Observatory will find buildings, radar towers, and other structures that were once part of our military defense system. No one would deny that the Cold War played an important role in our history, but how many of us have explored nearby Nike missile bases once established to protect us from Soviet bombers? Several remain in Connecticut, either reused or rotting away in the woods. The remains of a Nike missile site radar tower, Westport. Left: A World War II-era Quonset hut now serving as a private home, Higganum.
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