by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 22, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 25, 2014 Back in late winter we fretted from afar about droughts and fires in magnificent, one thousand mile long, California, a state with mountains four times Massachusetts’s highest, and Death Valley several hundred feet below sea level. ...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 15, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 18, 2014 On March 11, 2011 the tsunami came ashore and surged far inland along the low northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. The power plant at Fukushima was severely damaged. Radiation still leaks from it three years later. This story continues...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 8, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 11, 2014 Last week a Closeteer received an old fashioned letter via snail mail from a farmer friend for two-thirds of a century. They went to school together in the “Pioneer Valley”, more appropriately called the Connecticut Valley. Both were...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 1, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 4, 2014 Last week as the thick ice on Middleton Pond finally melted around its edges, two old Closeteers from Middleton drove northeast along the river to catch a late afternoon low tide in Ipswich. They said they were seeking clams but we know...
by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 25, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for March 28, 2014 Last Thursday, the 20th of March, the sun shown directly down on the equator. Had we a sextant and gone out at proper noon when the sun was highest and straight south above our meridian we would have found its altitude here about 47...
by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 18, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
WATER CLOSET for March 21, 2014 A sad and disturbing book entitled A Time to Die by Robert Moore1 was passed on by a friend to the Water Closet. It is about a submarine accident. For some readers, however, its larger subject is of poison- containing ships...
