Elizabeth Anne
VanderPutten - Dad on Walking and Cowboys
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walking. When I lived in Manhattan, I walked everywhere except to work
which was a 20 mile drive. For the past 25 years here in D.C., I walk
everywhere, including to work, which is now 4.5 miles. Brian, who is
an "avid exponent of non-exertion," asked dad the other day,
" Is she the only one in your family with this madness or is it
in her genes and we should blame it all on you?" - Elizabeth
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As I look back I remember walking everywhere. We had no car nor did our friends. Sunday afternoon was for walking. Along the shore, Prospect Park, Coney Island, Staten Island. Later when our friends from Torrington -- our "home town" -- drove down on visit, they were amazed at how much we walked in our every day life. Already they had adopted the car as the normal mean of mobility, like a cowboy and his horse. John Richard VanderPutten |
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