Discovery Health and Fitness (Very comprehensive This should convince you about the benefits of walking)
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/exercise/benefits-of-walking.htm

Article by Martina Navratilova
http://www.aarp.org/health/fitness/info-09-2010/martina_easiest_exercise_walking.html

Nature and Children

http://www.childrenandnature.org/

 

 

Historical Information about our Walk

Wikimapia-overhead views of Sands Point Estates

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.8586164&lon=-73.7040138&z=16&l=0&m=b

 

Google Map

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WIKI Page about Sands Point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_Point,_New_York

Old Long Island~Sands Point
http://www.oldlongisland.com/search/label/Sands%20Point

 

"Gatsby House" ~ Lands End

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364184/Crumbling-30m-Great-Gatsby-mansion-faces-demolition.html?ITO=1490

 

More Photos of Lands End

http://curbed.com/tags/sands-point-ny

 

John Philip Sousa House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa_House

 

Sands Point Cemetary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_Family_Cemetery

 

The Fleischmann Estate~The Chimneys~(Now the Community Synagogue)

http://wikimapia.org/1866109/The-Chimneys

Map of Walks through Sands Point Preserve

http://www.sandspointpreserve.org/pdf/Preserve_map.pdf

Map My Run
http://www.mapmyrun.com/

Last Child in the Woods - Richard Louv ( Nature Deficit Disorder)

Silent Spring~ Rachel Carsen

Wild Play~ David Sobel (Offers ways to help children bond with nature)