Another walking route

And finding Socrates?

Warren is a great place to walk. We took a different route while walking the dogs this evening and saw some beautiful houses. The big porch on the house above seemed perfect for a breezy evening like tonight. Trees frame a driveway to a large home’s garage and porte cochère. Another stately brick home had an elegant gate. A white house curves to the ground gracefully. Every structure we saw had at least one interesting detail.

We took the sidewalks alongside cobblestone streets to reach a tiny triangular park made by a fork in the road. This park honors General Joseph Warren, the town and county’s namesake and a casualty of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It held memorials to Warren County’s war veterans. A bench offered a scenic view of town and river. Across the road was another small park that wound along the riverbank. We’ll visit that one another day.

Another unexpected find along our walk was a metal structure resembling a giant ladder holding three bells, descending in size from the top. At first we assumed this modern bell tower was part of a church.

A closer look revealed that they were entitled “Shrine of Socrates.” The attached plaque reads:

To Socrates himself are usually ascribed an intense ethical devotion which influenced all later Greek philosophy, the development of the inductive method, and the conception of knowledge or insight as the foundation of virtue.

Another sculpture proved equally unexpected to our dog Pepper. When we rounded the corner of the Elks Lodge on the way home, she seemed to believe this bronze Elk was the real deal. She barked and growled and had to be pulled firmly away from this fierce threat to all of our safety.

We find something interesting and unexpected on every walk we take here in Warren. Thankfully the dogs keep us walking multiple times a day so the discoveries never end.

What unexpected sculptures, architecture or other finds have you seen when out walking? We’d love to hear about it in the comments below.