he gentle countryside of northeastern Connecticut is known as the Quiet Corner. This 40-mile drive past stonewalled fields and through unspoiled villages follows the centuries old Norwich to Woodstock Turnpike. History is everywhere: in Canterbury, Prudence Crandall dared to teach young black women in the 1830s; Revolutionary War hero, Israel Putnam, ran a tavern in Brooklyn Green; and Roseland Cottage in Woodstock illustrates the gracious living of 1846.