Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Connecticut by Stephen Gencarella & STEPHEN GENCARELLA

Author:Stephen Gencarella & STEPHEN GENCARELLA
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Published: 2019-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

A different story about Lover’s Leap at Derby appeared decades earlier in 1841, penned by “E. H. S.” This version was not an “Indian romance.” Instead, it tells of a stranger from New Haven who appears in the village in the summer during the early 1800s. He rents a room at an inn and stays for weeks. Although well-mannered and genial to the villagers, he carries a melancholic expression as if “some irreconcilable event was preying with disastrous effects upon the mind.”

Each morning, the stranger would climb the hills and mountains that encircled Derby and gaze upon the Housatonic and the beauty of its surrounding valley. This natural serenity did not lift up his spirits but only increased the hold of dejection and despair. So, daily, he would return to the village and take up solitary residence or an evening’s stroll alone to a nearby precipice. One night, he did so with a guitar as a companion. He sung a lament of his broken heart, his jealous anger at the rival who stole the woman he loved, and his belief that he would one day be reunited with her.

The day after his melodic confession, a beautiful woman arrived by coach from New Haven at the inn. When, by chance, the stranger saw her, “pencil nor pen could paint the wildly-depicted flush of all that constitutes earthly happiness, which illuminated for an instant his face.” But it was not to be. A gentleman followed her, a man who clearly was her lover. The stranger sped past them and ran to the precipice that nightly eased his soul. He met a swift and untimely end by his own volition, and forever after the rock was known as Lover’s Leap.

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