The road to Mount Airy led through the most beautiful city park I had ever been in. Called Fairmount Park and covering almost 9,000 acres, it is the largest municipal park in America and it is full of trees and flowering shrubs and bosky glades of infinite charm. It stretches for miles along the banks of the Schuylkill River. We drove through a dreamy twilight. Boats sculled along the water. It was perfection.
