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New Canaan Man Says 117-Year-Old Tomb on Ponus Ridge Obstructs Sightline
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Long may, on Ponus Path, this sentry standing,
The sun, the stars, the hunter’s moon, salute;
A silent figure, rugged and commanding,
Bearing its message when our tongues are mute. Yet though we raise the stone and guard it duly,
Stern time, some day shall bid the finger fall,
The only monument that serves us truly
Is the heart’s honest word, to each and all. —From “A Hymn to Ponus,” written by Charles H. Crandall of New Canaan for the Oct. 2, 1897 dedication of the “Monolith on Ponus Path”
A New Canaan man has lodged a complaint with town officials that his sightline as a motorist at Ponus Ridge and Davenport Ridge Road is obscured by a large upright stone on the traffic island there—a 117-year-old monument to a 17th Century native American chief said to be buried nearby. Officials with a working group that oversees traffic calming in New Canaan said Tuesday that a similar request to move the rock had been made about four years ago.