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Stories from "Appalachia" ... One winter evening Dr. and Mrs. Edward Hincks, summer residents of Randolph, N.H., read in the Boston Evening Transcript that J. Rayner Edmands had died in Chicago. They discussed, with much feeling, the great loss this meant to Randolph. Next summer, as the Hinckses were going up the Randolph Path, they met three men coming down, one of whom was indubitably Mr. Edmands. It is said that Dr. Hincks just sat down on a rock. But Mrs. Hincks was noted for her presence of mind. “Why, Mr. Edmands!” she smiled. “We heard…we heard…that you had made other plans for the summer.” –Klaus Goetze ————————— The last time I saw Louis F. Cutter was at a meeting of the Trail Committee of the Randolph Mountain Club two days before his death. Someone asked him why the trail to Lookout Ledge used to be called the Hallway. “A man by the name of Hall had a farm at the beginning of the trail,” he answered. “And, by the way, when I am dead and gone, would you do me the kindness never to call a trail the Cutterway?” –Klaus Goetze First printed in Appalachia,
June 1957
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