#plinymoody

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To every season turn, turn, turn..... one of my favorite older photos from the @thetrustees Dinosaur Reservation in Holyoke, MA. A bit of Fall #foliage juxtaposed with an 190 million year old #dinosaur footprint preserved in stone. Likely a #Eubrontes, an a see story to the great T-Rex, dinosaur footprints were first discovered here in the Pioneer Valley and can be found in a number of location extending along the Connecticut River Valley. Check out some of our older posts about #PlinyMoody or #EdwardHitchcock to learn more. Note that the reservation itself is closed for the season November 30th, and plan a short walk to explore. The Cliff Walk trail along Mount Tom is very close by and easy to fit both in. #igersnewengland #travelblogger #travelblog (at Dinosaur Footprints Reservation) https://www.instagram.com/p/BomZlSsnU6B/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bhjbdaimzs17

[roadtripnewengland]

#SouthHadley, MA- 1802, a young farm boy named Pliny Moody is out plowing the fields of his family's farm when he turns up a layer of rock with strange tracks preserved in the stone. . Young Pliny was not quite sure what to make of this discovery, thinking the tracks must have been left by some large bird- maybe a turkey. . Carving out a track to use as a doorstop, he showed his find to a local Doctor who decided the finding as the tracks if "Noah's Raven" (Noah having released two birds from his ark, the first being a raven that did not return) . In fact what our farm boy found were the first #ichnographs, or #dinosaur footprints, ever found- and this area along the Connecticut River would be rich with further discovery and the inquiry into these creatures from the distant past. . . #instahistory #paleontology #dinosaurs #ConnecticutRiverValley #PlinyMoody #History #Science #igersmassachusetts (at Breezy Acres Farm)