[CJFusco]

I also grew up in CT. When we moved into our neighborhood when I was 5, there were only 3 other houses on the street, and our back yard had woods going back for almost a mile. By the time I moved out, there were houses within 50 feet of where our back yard ended (it wasn't a problem because our back yard was about the 2/3 the size of a football field). CT is almost completely developed now, except for the Litchfield Hills and the "quiet corner"

But yes, my childhood was spent running and biking through the woods; I remember playing "Star Wars" with yellow wiffle ball bats at the age of 9 and making ramps for our mountain bikes at 12. It's too bad that many of today's kids spend all day playing computer games - video games, for us, were just for rainy days.