The seventh day, the normal time to rest, is a call to carry on with remembered zest.

Our forefathers knew instinctively

that the secret of vitality

lay in the bay and its estuaries,

that, whatever the condition,

water was always strong enough to cleanse it. The community will continue

to find its future in that resource

where nature and persons live

in mutual respect along the watershed,

using with care the gifts which are there:

The Greenwich zone, a haven of world renown for endangered species, a bay-state group

of communities where people can come

to walk or bike or hike in safety,

a summer haven for artists and writers,

a respite from urban tensions,

a place for all who wish to sit and stare, where the scale of life is familiar,

where people farm and fish and cater, where, in the evening, the homes and buildings along the reflective bay are washed in a light of peerless clarity.

Frank Ledwell 1 996

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