Abstract
LOOKING out from the State House dome a century ago, Charles Eliot could have just seen the wooded hills of Weston, perched on the western rim of the rapidly expanding metropolis. Looking back from the top of Doublet Hill today, a resident of Weston can still make out the dome, nestled among the office towers of the modern city. Eliot wanted to protect Doublet Hill as part of a forest reserve for his metropolitan park system, but he did not succeed. Weston acquired the rocky outcrop some eighty years later, and today it maintains a public lookout, but one needs