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   These two aerial photos (taken by Brad Dean in October 2000) show how Henry Thoreau would have walked to his Easterbrooks Country, which is the emptier area in the upper left quadrant. His house was at the bottom left. He would have walked through the village of Concord; then he would have gone diagonally to the left, crossing the Concord River near the site of the old North Bridge, where the American Revolution had started sixty five years before. (That is now the Minuteman National Historical Park.) The Great Meadows are at the upper right (now a National Wildlife Refuge), bordering the river. The Concord River exits diagonally to the upper right, bordered by serpentine lines of trees. In Estabrook Country, in the upper left, one can make out the broad fields of the old Nathan Barrett farm (now Hutchins farm), the loom of Punkatasset and Hubbard Hills, and a bit of the fields of the old Brooks Clark farm (now Rasmussen). You can walk to Estabrook Woods, too.