 Hi guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosel here I'm in today the beautiful town of Stores in Connecticut one of the most fantastic places in the state the home of Yukon. I'm just a stone's throw at the moment from the iconic four corners which marks the big entrance and I'm here today with my wife and with my father-in-law Emmett Schneiderman who appeared on the channel last year talking about codfish falls. We're embarking today on a type of exploration we're going into the deep back and beyonds of Stores and we're going to check out a colonial era cave that was used to sell roots so I'm all equipped so let's go and let's see what the back and beyonds of Stores has to offer. So the only thing most people who have heard the name Stores know is that it's the home of Yukon. There's actually a lot going on here there's a whole downtown area there's even an adventure park and Stores is kind of the gateway to other great towns in this area like Willamantic went to the Willamantic Grun company last night. It's a pretty small place it was kind of totally at odds with my conception of life in the USA. Previously I'd only been to New York City in Boston and to see a small little town like this has been a really interesting experience. I actually like Stores there is a little bit of everything here and when Yukon is out of session like when I visited last summer and this summer it's actually really quiet you won't find so many people around but it's kind of peaceful and because Yukon has a strong background in agricultural schooling you'll just see some amazing land out here beautiful views of cornfields and other fields so it's a nice part of Connecticut if you're looking for somewhere in the US that's a bit more slow-paced. Okay we're about to go into this root cellar that dates back to colonial times. We don't really know much about it other than an archaeologist recently said that it was a colonial. It's either for storing root vegetables and other things during the hot months but also possibly a place where when someone would die in the dead of winter where the ground was too frozen to bury them they could store bodies in here as well. I'm going to go inside take a look. It really got very nice construction, rounded nice rounded walls huge slabs above it. When I was a teenager some of my friends would hang out in here and actually camp out here a popular location for certain people and it's even been described in a book by Tim Page. So I only ever visited Stores Connecticut during the summertime which is typically pretty warm and temperate as it is at the moment but I'm told by Emmett and by other people living in Stores and indeed in New England that the winters here are particularly brutal lots and lots of snow and ice etc. So you can just imagine a couple of centuries ago when the American Revolution was being fought this town of Stores sending out its young soldiers out to fight in the war and then passing through as well because Stores is in really in Connecticut and a very interesting location kind of equidistant between Boston and New York. So although Stores is very very peaceful now in a humble place with mostly Yukon in our previous eras would have been amazing to be a fly on the wall to witness people George Washington himself passing right through four corners and perhaps even this cave. We had lots of great times in these woods growing up. Just right over there there were a bunch of old jalapes, old rusted out trucks from the teens and 20s we used to play around on those and we'd make forts out of all the wood and leaves and stuff. There's a little brook we'll show you in a moment we would make rafts and float them down the stream. So yeah we had lots of good times here. We leave home early in the morning and weekends and summer and come back at dinner at about six o'clock and our parents never really worried about us. Occasionally we step on some glass and definitely the emergency room because of that. The remarkable thing about the community of Stores is that for a quiet place it's almost as if the entire history of modern America is etched into it even though you can just see around me some trees and maybe the signs of a few ticks and other creatures rustling around here. This was actually some of this tract land was actually arable farmland and you would have had cows grazing here you can actually see the old walls where the farmers of the area would have put up to you know to keep their herds at bay and we're just coming up to a river here and this was of course you know just a couple hundred years ago as I mentioned previously when the American Revolution was was being fought you can just imagine perhaps George Washington himself coming in through the four corners just a hundred meters that way and seeing this this very townland. So there's a lot more to the quiet sleepy town of Stores than meets the eye.