Nestled among maples and oaks just off a suburban Boston thoroughfare, Trout Pond is a small, serene getaway for lunch-hour wanderers, young lovers, and fishermen. "It's a good place to come and get your head straight," says an angler, waiting for a bite on a sunny fall morning. continued...

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Reprinted from the
HHMI Bulletin,
December 2003, pages 18-23.
©2003 Howard Hughes
Medical Institute